Recent content by MadHomebrewer

The point of kettle souring is to keep the wort in the kettle while lacto does its thing. Then boiling the soured wort to kill off the lacto strain so you don’t spread lacto to the rest of your brew equipment.

I enjoyed brewing one gallon batches. Brewed them for a year to get my process down before going to 5 gallon BIAB batches. One of my favorite brews to date was a one gallon batch of chocolate maple porter.

Yes the grain needs to move freely in the mash water. I used 5 gallon paint strainer bags back went I did one gallon batches. I now have a brew bag for my keggle and it is plenty roomy for my grain.

I started out doing 1 gallon BIAB batches on the stove. It is a great way to test a recipe. 2 gallon pot and a 5gallons paint strainer bag worked perfect. I did find using a second pot holding your sparge water, then dipping your bag in it to be more efficient than the traditional biab method of...

Adventures in homebrewing sells economy kettles about the same price as concord but with sanitary welded fittings.

Yeah, no oxidation on this on. Haze, like you said, makes it appear darker than it originally was.

Nope just 12lb MO, for a 6gal batch.

I did a smash maris otter / citra and I really like the combo. Here is it cloudy kegged fresh vs two weeks in the cold keg and settled out.

I've been debating doing a RIS. My plan was to buy a barrel stave from AIH. Keg my beer in a corny with the stave inside with co2 on top and let it age at room temp in the keg for a while.

nvm.

Seriously? I did, all I got where links about the kit or people taking about the kit. Thanks for the link to your search results.

Anyone have Brooklyn Brew Shops Chocolate Maple Porter recipe? I brewed the one gallon kit a year or so back and now want to brew a 5 gallon batch. I just need the recipe or grain bill. Thanks!

I brewed this kit awhile ago when I was first starting out. It came out great. I did add an ounce of cocoa nibs soaked in rum to secondary. Saved a bottle and drank a year later and it was still really good. I now do five gallon and have been thinking of doing a big batch of this to keg and keep...

Brewing this up this weekend. Picked up the kit from Hombrew Supply.

Wondering if it is light and protein issue. Kegs and cans have zero light transmission. Most other beers except this style you want all the proteins to drop out. Just my thinkings.