Recent content by Marshi

Pretty opaque, interesting, not sure what it could be, I guess I'll keep on eye on it to see if it happens again... ALSO, forgot to mention it was an orange wheat beer, and I ground up dried orange peels and corriander and put that it, perhaps it's orange oil? That could make more sense...

Has anybody seen this: it's a deep red (almost amber), oily, slimy goo that I found at the bottom of my cylindriconical fermenter after I racked into kegs. I cold conditioned at 1 degree celcius for about a week previous to racking. I didn't see it in the beer at any stage, but I noticed it...

Hey well alright! Music to my ears, thanks daksin

No worries, yeah I definitely mixed it with water before adding it. I think my procedures were right on, I'm just worried about too much protein in the fermentor, is that going to produce any off flavors?

Haha, not sure, it might be a different type... but for all intents and purposes what I used was a kettle fining, it's like an Irish moss, it's supposed to help with protein coagulation. Anyways, any thoughts?

Guys, I was doing a 15 gallon batch of porter, and I added some kettle finings to settle out the proteins (polyclar) 10 minutes before the end of boil, and did a whirlpool and rest, but I never really saw the beer clear up. I thought this might be normal for a porter, but once I got towards...

Ooh, good point, didn't think about blowing off my airlock. I think i'll just use a blow off tube to make sure I don't run into any problems. Yeah I live in SF so I'm not too worried about crazy temperature changes.

Two questions relating to my igloo mash tun: 1. What is the best way to clean and sanitize? Are there any chemicals that damage the plastic that I should avoid? 2. I'm thinking about filling a second igloo with sparge water for my sparge, but am worried that putting really hot sparge water...

Sup yall, quick question: I'm going on a 5 week trip, but before I go, I would love to brew a beer that will be ready to bottle when I get back. Are there any styles of beer that could last 5 weeks in a glass primary (no secondary fermentation)? I'm worried about potential oxidation and off...

Any way you could conduct a diacetyl rest? you probably have tons of diacetyl that you're gonna want to get rid of, maybe throw your fermenter in a cooler corner of your basement (around 63 F), although it sounds like your basement gets pretty hot, haha. Don't know if it's too late for that but...

This doesn't have to do with homebrewing, and more to do with commercial brewing, but I've been finding a bunch of 7-10 barrel brewing systems online (just for fun...) that have a Hot Liquor Tank/ Mash tun combo. These are two vessel systems (so no lauter tuns). So it's basically a three in...

My guess would be Malanoidins, i.e. long boil with not much volume. How fresh were the hops? Perhaps aged hops created some off colors

Is there a difference between these three styles? I have read New Belgium's Fat Tire Ale as described by these three descriptions? Which one is correct, or are they all right? Yee!

So: I becoming familiar with Maillard reactions, but have a few questions: My understanding is that a majority of Maillard reactions during the brewing process occur during the boil, but how much Maillard reactions (and the resulting productions of Melanoidins) occur during the mash, if at...

Is the Lovibond measurement of color virtually defunct (SRM being the popular measurement system), or do people still use it? On a similar note, what are the units that SRM measurements use? I see, for example, an amber ale might have an SRM of 7, but 7 what? What are the units used to...