Recent content by IcarusFallen

I’m thankful for fermentation chambers and temp controllers.

It’s a stainless steel pot. The aluminum is sandwiched in steel in the bottom plate to help with conducting heat evenly. Your wort won’t touch the aluminum at all.

Whirlfloc absolutely makes a difference. If you are looking for clear beer you can also use gelatin in the fermenter or in the keg if you are kegging. Brülosophy has a good article on that as well. http://brulosophy.com/2015/01/05/the-gelatin-effect-exbeeriment-results/

The water won’t count for a starter, sorry. I’d give it until Friday just to account for lag time with the yeast and any other variables you can’t account for.

So you are at 8 Days in primary? Using US-05 (did you make a yeast starter?) If you need it by the 8th, I would say 3 weeks of bottle conditioning should be good. Without a hydrometer I might wait till Friday to bottle, then keep the bottles warm (70+) for the three weeks. Should have good...

To add to @Pkrd. You can warm it up. I would even go to 73. Any off flavors the yeast were going to produce would have already happened so now you are just making them happy and warm to chew through the last bit of sugar.

Used Nancy Silverton’s pizza dough recipe. Thought it was appropriate since it calls for Barley Malt (used DME) to add sweetness to the recipe. https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/10/nancy-silvertons-pizza-dough-recipe.html Crust came out amazing in 550* oven. Didn’t take pictures...

*fingers Crossed*

***15,482***. Sorry

+5 gallons magic hat #9 clone 15,452

Waiting for a wash after being bottled

Photos from my brew days and bottling days

So, Just a quick update: All the cider is finished and almost all gone now. :) But here's what I went with and how they turned out. For all the recipes below, I let the original 5 gallons of cider and 3lbs of honey ferment for 2 weeks through primary. After that I split the batch as outlined...

5 gals of bourbon barrel porter and 5 gals of WH honey ale 13,387.3 + 10 = 13397.3

I'm in!