Recent content by Jiffster

Now you can't make a post like this without showing some pictures of this creation!

Thanks folks!

How would you read this? 1.003?

I'll seek some other opinions to see if others have the same perception of sour as I do. If you tasted my beer, you might describe the taste I'm describing totally different - and I would bet you would know exactly how to address it. Shall I send you a bottle? ;-) Regarding the RO water I use...

It's possible I'm describing the taste wrong. I'm not treating the RO water to remove chlorine. Should I be? No idea what the iron and magnesium levels are. No Epsom salts used so far.

I ran out of Oxy and used BLC to clean a keg. Actually, it's in process (soaking) as I type. Has anybody else done this?

This was a 5.5 gal batch. I treated 9 gallons of RO water with 6.12g Calcium Chloride. Hops were purchased fresh before brew. I’m assuming they were not old at the brew supply.

I haven’t solicited the opinion of people that would “know” aside from my wife, who describes it as a soapy taste. I don’t use dish soap to clean so it’s not actually soap. It’s very noticeable (to me) - the difference between mine and the breweries I visit.

I’ve been brewing all grain using RO water and following AJ delange’s “A Brewing Water Chemistry Primer” guidelines with good success. I have been attempting to up my game by dabbling into measuring mash pH and adjusting accordingly. I say dabbling because shortly after starting to learn this...

Making a 2L starter (2L water - 7.1 oz DME) today. I usually boil my starter wort in my 2L flask but this time I boiled it in a pot first. After my boil and cooling I transfered it to my flask and it was 1.6L Can I go ahead and pitch my yeast or.....?

I'm doing my first starter in over a year. I'm not sure how old my DME is. Probably about 1.5 years old. Will ths be OK for a starter or should I get some new DME?

Excellent... so even if it rains that's ok, correct?

Great info here folks.... Thank you!

Would a growler filler fit this description? I've used the bottler tool that Beirmuncher described in a thread one time over a year ago.

Hey Folks, I'm going to try freezing my bottles before bottling from a keg this time but I'm not sure what the process is for freezing the bottles. Do I sanitize them, let them dry and then freeze them? Thanks