Recent content by fredhead

In short: DIY counter-pressure bottle filler. Emptying three kegs to clear for new beer. I'm using cold bottles. The first two kegs fill bottles beautifully. The last not so much, lots of foam. My only clue is that after I flush the o2, and pressurize the bottle, and open the beer line...

mine! thaks bud, just bought the triple on ebay.

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The OP writes 45 IBU, is that calculated or actual?

This may have been addressed earlier, i saw talk of softer biterness... But my brewersfriend recipe says 65.15 IBU (tinseth)!!! Did i miss something?

In Jerusalem we have a wonderful LHBS, but the yeast selection is limited to dry Safale yeasts. If I get my hands on some vials, I have a stir plate so I figure I can resuscitate semi old ones, then harvest from the trub. My question is, if I have someone visiting which yeasts are most...

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Finally drinking my first attempt at this... Ooh ooh ooh! It's like small citrusy beer angels are boogieing in my mouth. Seriously. Amazing.

LLBeanJ thank you for the input. I'm in Israel with literal rockets overhead so i'm happy to have any yeast at all, its gonna have to be the s05. be well.

Was going to do it with s05 on account of having less than no access to bells beers. (I'm in the Middle East). Still skip the coriander? Also I heard some talk about adding Vienna, what think you?

I saw this clone of Bell's Oberon on the BYO website. http://byo.com/blogs/entry/bell-s-oberon-clone-woodberon I'm thinking of brewing it. Any thoughts? This is Christopher Woods Oberon clone recipe: WoodBeron (Bell's Brewery Oberon clone) Recipe (5 gal/19 L) OG: 1.057 IBU: 20.5...

I just bottled my first attempt at this. Perplexed at my final gravity. Hit my numbers pretty good. Brewersfriend calculated on OG of 1.069 I got 1.070 in 5.45 gallons. The recipe estimates a FG of 1.018 (BF estimated 1.019). I pitched s-04, 9 days in primary, 15 days in secondary and a FG of...

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19,947.5 +5 stout +5 sn pale ale clone +5 nut brown +5 centennial blonde +5.5 zombie dust clone +4.5 hefeweizen 19,977.5

Excuse my ignorance, can you explain the negative impact of aeration at this point?