Recent content by JesperP

I've been thinking that it would be fun to try use these hopping techniques, but with some caramel or roasted grains instead, has anybody been there? BR Jesper, Copenhagen

Sorry to revive this old thread, but i would like to know how you got rid of the problem. I'm having the same type of off flavor and i can't narrow down the culprit.

The thing is that I want to brew quite a few 5 l batches of single hop ipa's using the same strain, but probably only one or two at a time. By making a small starter every time and save slurry from that I suspect I could keep the yeast cleaner and fresher. I'm scaling to 5 l by trying to...

That sounds awesome, but is it necessary with the second step? I will try to go with just the single step. Let me know how it goes and I will do the same:)

Part of the reason for the starter, was so that i could take part of it to keep for the house yeast. That way i would not stress it with any high gravity beers that i´d might do.

Hi everybody I am doing a lot of small batches of about 5 liters and to avoid buying a vial of yeast every time i would like to try and maintain a house yeast. My thought is to make a small starter each time and simply take a portion of the fully fermented starter slurry to save for the...

Hi guys I was reading Mitch Steele's IPA book, and i was wondering about some of the fermentation practices in some of the recipes there. For the recipes of Stone's beer it says that when FG is hit, cool to 17 deg. C for 24 hours, dry hop for 36 hours, and then cool to close to freezing...

I dont have much experience in the IPA business, but i tried doing a hop stand after flameout the last time. I added the flameout addition after cooling to about 180f and let it sit there for about 20 min. It was a single hop simcoe IPA, which unfortunately came out a little on the sweet side...

Hi all I recently tried my luck with brewing a wee heavy beer, and for that i did a caramelization of part of the first runnings (Boiling the first liter down to about 1/4). It smelled and tasted pretty awesome and really made an impact on the wort when i poured it back in with the rest. I...

Thanks for all the response, guys... I like experimenting and the thing that attracts me most about idea is having the beer ready carbonated on a bottle after a couple of weeks, without having to wait for the priming sugar to carbonate. My thought is that you'd end up with a fresher beer...

I remember reading somewhere about a technique of carbonation where you would bottle the beer just before the primary fermentation was done (a couple of points above FG) Has anyone experimented with this?

Thanks a lot for all the input :) Im looking into where i can pick up a cheap O2 system here in Denmark.

That sounds very interesting, i will definately consider this as a future investment. How about the double dropping thing, has anyone tried this?

Hi Guys In the never-ending process of improving my homebrewery i would like some advice on aeration. I have had some problems with my beers finishing a little higher and being a little sweeter than i'd might have hoped for. I have tried a lot of things, with mash temp and PH, and it does...

Hi everyone I have been experimenting with homebrewing for a little while and i have brewed around 8 batches, which all have been quite successful or are in the making towards being that. However all of them have had an OG which was a few points higher than i'd expected. This happens...