Recent content by juagula

You might wanna add some lactose too. It got me good results :)

5% weight in the last minutes of boiling

More body, sweeter and creamier. By adding some milk sugar, I got last month a very nice stout out of just easy LME kit, East Kent Goldings and WLP004

Thanks a lot for the replies! It is still bubbling, but gravity is steady. I'll bottle tonight. That means 7 instead of 5 days of dry hopping. Cheers!

Added By: Anonymous Method: All Grain Style: Weizen/Weissbier Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 14 liters (fermentor volume) Boil Size: 16 liters Boil Gravity: 1.050 (recipe based estimate) Efficiency: 75% (brew house) Source: Juan GL Original Gravity: 1.058 Final Gravity: 1.014...

Thanks for the replies. Even if the activity is not because of fermentation, there is CO2 escaping the fermenter. Isn't it taking the aromas intended by dry hopping out of my beer? How can this be fixed?

Hello, I brewed a very hopped APA (hopalicious clone) 1 week before Christmas and by the time I left, it was almost in FG. I was away for 2 weeks, where room temperature went down to around 45F, but I'm assuming it was still around 4 days cooling down until that temperature. When I came back...

I see one issue in this experiment: Was the temp measured with those sticky surface termometers? Temp distribution inside the fermentor would go as follows: warmest top center and getting colder the more you go to the sides and bottom. Therefore, you took the temperature in the coldest spot of...

The idea is to get something in short working time, I already have another brewday planned for next week. The yeast has been doing very good job, and the cake in the bottom looks thick, uniform and nice. I like both ideas, but I have some worries: Too sweet for the dunkel? Will banana fit in...

Hello! I am bottling a weissen next week and I think it would be a pitty to leave the fermentor and the yeast cake at its bottom lazy during my whole christmas vacation. It would be nice to find a completely fermented beer at my return. Any suggestions on how to use that yeast? Since now I'm...

Hello! I brewed yesterday night. Some thoughts about this system: As @ArkotRamathorn said, it melts in a specific way: the bottom middle of the ice box has much higher density. I didn't think that would be a problem, because at the end everything would mix. BUT that very high density part...

In Norway? No way! EVERYTHING is expensive as fck here. Brewday Thursday, I'll let you know the results.

Thanks for the replies! The idea is to cool down the wort to room temperature and freeze it in sanitized boxes no bigger than 0.5L (around 2 cups). Then I can choose the amount of boxes depending on the OG I reach. If I reach the correct one I can also add one box of frozen wort, one of ice. As...

Good morning all, I am planning to freeze some high gravity wort made out of DME (10% of the total boil volume) and add it into the hot wort during chilling. I have one question about it: What is the temperature at which the wort is most likely to get infected during chilling? I will add the...