I've been fermenting a california common beer (otherwise known as a steam beer) for about 11 days. The fermentation went well, but other beers have cleared their krausen after about 10 days. This beer has a weird krausen with foam above the beer and some foam below the beer. fermentation has...
Yup,
I assumed those two, so:
10. Your done cleaning when you can't smell wort - then it's time to rinse and sanitize. Buy some oxyclean and use it in the brewpot. I have a method of cleaning the brewpot completely, then heating up some water (or using some of the wort chiller output) and...
All,
I've learned a few things in brewing my first 5 beers and I wanted to share some observations:
1. Start a brewing Journal or Notebook - If you don't know what mistakes you make, you can't stop making them. When using a kit I have the kit instructions, but I've also typed out my own...
So of my two problems, you've solved one, thanks I'll return the DME and replace it with Cara-Pils! My second problem, other than being and annoying Noob is what impact replacing Crystal 40 malt with Crystal 45 would be?
Thanks,
-Bill
I want to brew a steam beer this weekend and Palmer's book says: 1/2 lb of Dextrin Malt and 2/3 lbs of Crystal 40 Malt. I went to the local home brew store and mistakenly asked for Malto Dextrin and ended up with Amber DME.
I looked at the grain bins and couldn't find Dextrin Malt and the...
I'm confused about when to transfer a lager from the primary to the secondary. Is it simply when you measure with your hydrometer that your 2/3 of the way to terminal gravity, or should you wait for the krausen to clear? I used a kit from morebeer and they didn't list a terminal gravity. I...
Just to check I just to a hydrometer reading and it 1.041 so I think I haven't seen any activity. Given the size of the sample I probably don't have many reading left. :-) Smelled sweet and yeasty.
I'm trying to debug my beer. :-) On Sunday I made a Pilsner Lager and an English IPA (it was my second and third brew). Using extract kits, things proceeded well. When the IPA wort was finished, I pitched a vial of burton ale and set it to ferment. That was 48 hours ago. After about 18...