Recent content by halpinhe

I stumbled upon this thread today. Had read a bit about LoDo but never in the context of BIAB. The deoxygenation of mash water to provide a wort that's already oxygen free sounds swell, but I bottle condition. In your experiences has anyone found that the LoDo approach on the hot side already...

Hmm. I don't have so much experience repitching washed yeast unfortunately, so I can't tell you 100% definitively about unwanted hop flavour in your sweet stout. Were you planning on making a starter from your yeast or just pitching directly? If you are making a starter then you can taste the...

Great strain! I've found it to be very versatile, and I use it as a kind of house strain for APAs, bitters and dark beers. I have repitched this yeast from a hoppy pale ale to a brown porter and didn't have any ill effects, but mind you I top crop after skimming away most of the hop gunk. The...

I just did this with 10% homemade Brown malt in the way you described and it turned out really great. I wouldn't hesitate to try 15% or more.

I guess for longer term ageing maybe a dark beer will be the way to go! Regarding small batches: indeed I'm thinking that for APAs and hop forward beers I may go back to DME and make small batches. 1 gallon batch is just too much time commitment for all grain imo.

Would love to go RO, but haven't found a solution yet here that makes sense for me (everything around two hundred bucks). May cut a batch with RO to give it a spin and change my mind tho.

Oh sweet. Sounds great! Are you guys coordinating via DM or Whatsapp or something else?

I'd be interested in joining as well! After August 9th works well for me.

Really eh? Even in a bittering capacity? That's too bad, and good to know. Maybe I'll make a tiny batch of a DME pale ale bittering with them to see if there's any hope.

Thanks guys! I'll try being a bit more careful with my bottling procedure and then reassess. My water is indeed horrible for light hoppy beers, but I live in Holland and jugs of RO water go for ~40$ for 5 gallons so I haven't tried cutting it so far.

I also have a half pound of the YVH 13.5% pellets of Citra that others earlier in the thread complained about. Had a suspect batch a few weeks ago that contained a lot of them, and then did the "dry hop a pils" trick to test the hops on their own and it was a really foul mess of garlic and...

Thanks for further reactions guys. CarlScan I don't believe I have an infection, because the beer beer doesn't have any overcarbonation problems nor do I see a "ring" at the top of my bottle from a mini pellicle forming. I'll look out for it though. MadKing I have < 0.01 ppm of Iron in my...

That's quite interesting actually. I agree with porterpounder that in general I need to sort out my storage temperature issue asap. I can probably secondary at something closer to ferm temp (15C or so), but the bottles can only really fit in the warm closet. I bottle using a bottling wand...

Hi all, I've been lurking here for a year now, and felt compelled to ask for advice on an issue that forum searches couldn't quite answer: My question, roughly speaking, is whether you should forget about long-term ageing beer altogether if you don't have some way to purge...