Recent content by lukem5

I have always noticed that the flaked corn in the mash seems to disintegrate anyway, so I am interested in using/finding cheaper sources of corn other than flakes (which cost a whopping 3$ a pound at the brew shop! amazing!) and just make sure its cleaned up well in the vorlauf. Options include...

I noticed mine was rather sweet as well before I bottled, after I primed it and tasted it the sweetness seemed to lose its prominence, but was still there, in a good way. As a matter of fact i kept letting this go for about 2 1/2 weeks in secondary to get the sweetness down because I was afraid...

you guys dont seem to get it. I live in hawaii and the grain here costs $2 a lb and it isnt even fresh. I need to find a good rice beer, thats not sake, sake isnt even beer btw so stop saying make sake!!!

I am going to be adding more rice to this for my next batch, infact I am thinking about HALFING the grain/corn and filling the rest with rice, is this too much rice? What can I do to bring back some of that body ill lose with all the rice? High protein grains like 6 row? What else can I do to...

She went down from 1.042 to 1.004, I could have let her sit a lil longer but I couldn't wait, she was already in sec. for 2 weeks. (using kolsch yeast wlp029) And I am confused as to how to calculate attenuation... [(OG-FG)/(OG-1)] x 100 So thats [(1.042-1.004)/(1.042-1)] x 100 =...

I am using this calculator http://kotmf.com/tools/prime.php And where it says "temperature" do I put the temperature the beer will be sitting at in the bottle while it is priming? Or the temperature I fermented it at? I wish they made this stuff more obvious!:confused:

HAHHAHA good one, yeah thats what swmbo should mean:mug: This stuff tastes great after a week in primary, I put too many amarillo hops in it though, still too sweet to tell just how good it is, but its gonna be good. I really want to try this with even MORE rice as some others have said...

I just brewed a 5g batch of this and used 2 oz of amarillo on this batch. I think I may have added too many hops for the beer style, as I forgot to half the recipe when it came to hops... My propane ran out after about an hour of boiling, but I did get a 90 min mash in. OG was 1.042 I think...

I cant understand how pitching a small amount of yeast is bad? Unless you weren't all that sanitary, then you want fermentation to get going asap so the bacteria dont have a chance to take over. Hasn't anyone just pitched a small amount of yeast (say 1/4 of a wyeast 3724 packet) and gotten...

Did you pitch at 87??? and hold it throughout fermentation? I am wondering if I should pitch at maybe 75 ish and ramp it over a week to 88 then hold it there till it finishes. I hear the best flavor comes from the high 80's with this strain, and someone just said they fermented in the...

I too have this yeast, I was going to do an aquarium heater/cooler water bath setup, and keept it at about 92 degrees, I hear this strain lets off good flavors at higher temps. Should I ramp my fermentaion from about80 to 92 over the course of 3 days or so? Anybody have experience ferment...

hey uhh, can I pick this yeast up anywhere? It seems everyone is sold out since wyeast (temporarily) decided to stop making it, has wyeast shipped out new ones yet? I want this yeast damnit!

I have the same idea as you except I want to brew mostly with rice and also add some sugar. I would need something to give it some more body, and I am aiming for something that is light (but not so light as sugar/rice only) and easily quaffable, and tasty. Any suggestions on ingredients I could...

rollin.

i just popped one in the fridge and opened it, around 65 hours since its been bottled. it was CARBED, I am afriad it will be a bottle bomb soon, It was kind of sweet when I tasted it, must be more sugar >.<. It tasted... alright, I guess, Kind of tasteless, a little bit of a harsh hoppy finish...