Recent content by ironchefcali

Trying this, but changed the recipe slightly. 6# pale LME 1.4# wheat LME And northwest (1332?) yeast Bought 8# strawberries, cut stems, pasteurized, and sitting in my freezer now. I plan to rack on to strawberries tomorrow. When pasteurizing am I supposed to dump the water I boiled it in n...

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm gonna try to move a couple bottles to a warmer area n see if that helps. Well... Worse case scenario if this brew stays flat I'll just brew a lighter beer n mix it to make a black n tan. Haha.

Beer us currently in closet about 68ish degrees F. It started out as a 5 gal batch then after some crazy n messy fermentation ended up w a lil less than 4.5 gal. I picked up a 4oz packet of corn sugar from my LHBS and didn't use all of it cuz I was advised not to use it all since I'm making a...

I made a sweet stout about a 5 weeks ago. Bottled 2 weeks ago. Put a bottle in the fridge n tried it n it was pretty good, but it was pretty flat. Almost no head and lil to no lacing. I don't remember how much sugar I added, but was pretty conservative since it was a stout n was afraid of over...

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