Recent content by gwashingk

How did the yeast experiment go? Did adding new yeast to those two bottles improve carbonation when the beer is cold? I have a beer that is not well carbed, after refrigerating, when it certainly should be. I will have to check to see if the warm bottles are carbed at all.

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My LHBS owner asked me to brew something for a homebrew comp (Oakmont Pub Homebrew Cup, June 5th. In case anyone's interested in attending!) so I made a batch inspired by this recipe. Same recipe really, just used a little less for the dry hop, and bittered with 1oz Columbus for 60min. Used...

Looks like a good recipe, I have one that uses a similar grain bill. You can keep the carapils if you want, I use 1lb too. My only suggestions would be make the 60 minute Simcoe addition 0.5oz, and then your 1.4oz of Simcoe at 2 minutes would be 1oz. But I would also change those 2 minute...

I am excited to try this recipe, thanks for sharing! Glad I checked again after you updated the dry hop amount. That's a lot for dry hopping!

Ahh, thanks, seems obvious now. If the temperature is too high it will denature the beta amylase enzymes and there won't be enough of them left for further conversion by the time it drops down to their comfort level. I knew there had to be something that was escaping me.

So if I want a beer with body on the lighter side, is there really any harm in starting my mash at 155 F and letting it drop down to 145 F? From what I understand the higher mash temps (154 to 167 F) produce larger sugars, and lower temps (130 to 150 F) break them down to small sugars. So if I...

Well, I'm just going to make a hop tea with 2-3 more oz of Willamette and pop that into the secondary right before I rack the beer from primary to secondary next week.

Should I make a hop tea to drop into the primary?

The OG reading was 1.100. The IBUs should be around 25... but that should definitely be higher, closer to 60-80 range right?

Brewed this last week... Did I use enough hops/boil them long enough in this recipe? I put this into brewtarget and it's saying this will be too malty. 5G batch mash @ 150F 90 minutes: 8 lb pale malt 1.5 lb flaked barley 1 lb honey malt 12 oz roasted barley 8 oz special B 6 oz...

No, I had no idea about that. Another great bit of info, thanks!

fishing line! that's great, thanks!

Is it ok to leave the hydrometer floating in the carboy for a couple days/weeks? Will it give an accurate reading the whole time?

Thanks. With the LHBS closed all day today, will 36 hours after first pitch be a problem? I just checked and the first signs of fermentation have started, about 16 hours after first pitch.