Recent content by jebsterr

Next year, look for a hop called MOSAIC. This is the commercial version of it, and it is being harvested now for next year production.

There are forms of yeast cells that can sexually reproduce. Its similar to how bacteria can trade genetic material. I wont get into the details, but some of the yeast that are made through normal asexual means end up having half the genetic material they need. Those deficient, haploid, yeast...

I just bypassed mine today. there is the piece that the gas line goes into that has a button for lighting and at the other end is the wires that go in for the safety. unscrew the aluminum piece where the wires go in. when that is off, inside there is another aluminum piece crammed into the...

Brew it on the premises that have the brewers license, then your square with the feds. You would need a pilot brewery license if you were to brew at home and then sell in the pub. I say just scale it up and sell it as a seasonal, if no one likes it then don't make it again.

specialty malts all depend on the brewers taste. take a pilsner, many brewers will say only put 2 row german pils malt in, yet there are many recipes with one or two specialty malts in it. i say brew it how you like it.

Big beers age well, russian imperial stouts, old ales, barley wines. All benefit and get great flavors while reducing burning sensation of the alcohol

With the mash water at or above mashing temps, you can get dough balls by adding water to grain. It is generally advised that at temps above 140 or so, you add the grains to the water while stirring. Dough balls are bad for mash efficiency.

The tank should have a blow off valve on the back of the main valve body to vent any overpressure. CO2 is stored as a liquid/gas. As pressure goes up more liquid is created, as pressure goes down more gas is created. As long as there are no defects to your tank like rust, then it should be...

You can try boiling it more vigorously. DMS is driven off in during the boil.

The high pressure gauge can be removed and a connector pipe can be placed between the first regulator and the input of the second.

I did an alcohol dehydrogenase experiment in my biochem class, pretty simple, we even used disposable plastic cuvetes in our spectrophotometers. Also could somehow compare the accuracy of our calculations for determining alcohol content from SG by taking measurements with a hydrometer and then...

27,887+5g red ale+ 5g pilsner + 5g RIS + 5g northern english brown + 1g smoked porter + 5g blind pig clone=27,913

For a full grain brew that I do, I use 1.25qt/lb of grist. That should work for a mini mash too.

My local homebrew shop made a pale with wormwood as the bittering agent. It is amazingly bitter, almost like bile. I would say it was the wormwood that is causing the extreme bitterness.

If its 300 series S.S. then it is not magnetic. magnet tests are unreliable for testing S.S. vs. aluminum.