Recent content by IsaacM

By the way guys. When you dry hop, use sanitized muslin bags with lots of headroom for hop expansion. Using a BIAB tied off will be horrible to clean... not worth it man.

Alright. Today was bottling day. I decided to go with the BSG drops (like the NB fizz drops or the Cooper's carb drops) so I could taste the brew without the bottling sugars that I normally use. Guys, this beer is INCREDIBLE. I encourage all of you to try to make the Pliny clone who haven't yet...

You hate to say it but I hate to hear it more :) I said I shook it, but more accurately I swirled the beer around the edge hopefully in a way that didn’t introduce oxygen. Since reading your comment though, I’ve been reading about oxidizing beer and the off flavors it can cause. Either way, I...

Thanks all for the help. Here's what I ended up doing: - I waited a week for fermentation to slow down, but not complete - I racked to secondary (it's a FastFerment conical, so low risk) - I got a large BIAB mesh sanitized - Put all the hops (pellet hops) into the tied off BIAB mesh - Tossed the...

I'm using a FastFerment, so a spigot basically. The $0.50 muslin sack with lots of headroom seems to be the way to go to keep the beer clean and not risk clogging the valve. It's fairly easy to clean... well... other than the ball valve which isn't too bad to disassemble/reassemble once you...

That sounds like it could work pretty well too - as long as the tube doesn't get clogged up

Got it - the only times I've royally jacked up a beer seem to be because of racking to secondary. There really wasn't much trub into the fermentor, so I'll just skip secondary. I'll just boil or star san the stocking and go with pellets it sounds like. Thanks for the advice!

Hello Braumeisters, I'm in the middle of fermenting 5 gallons of Vinnie Cilurzo's Pliny the Elder double IPA (found here in this file: https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/attachments/0000/6351/doubleIPA.pdf) and it calls for dry hopping with a bunch of hops. I've never dry hopped, so I have...

Thanks for the info!

Have any of you noticed with AG vs. extract that AG bottle conditioning takes a bit longer? If not, I must say that if I wasn't too busy with life, I was about to throw away 5G of an amazing amber ale early this week and I'm so glad I didn't. I had a batch that I would've called "burnt tire...

Thanks so much for the info everyone. I'm going to go ahead and chalk this one up to, "I must've really screwed something up or I'm having a stroke and can't smell right." Although the beers aren't typical, they're pretty tasty and unique. Sometimes you get a happy accident. Next batch I'll be...

Hi everyone. I'd brewed a batch of Belgian saison with imperial rustic yeast a bit ago and it was awesome. My problem is that since then, I keep getting those witbier type flavors in my batches. Did an AG batch of northern brewer nut brown ale, which came with S-04 yeast, and later did an...