Recent content by mattiasnordell

Thanks for the linked thread! I read the whole 125 posts. Great! That answered pretty much all non written concerns I had. Thanks again!

I have read a bit about Plantarum and realised it hates hops. I would like to use it for a lichtenhainer and would like a little hops. The plan was to first sour and then do a normal fermentation but not kill the lacto. Since I would like a little hops I was thinking, couldn't I do a "side brew"...

Picking up on my old post. I actually found 10 bottles of the stale beer. They taste slightly better than the keg did but there is definitely something wrong there too. Possibly a slight infection, or too old malt used (though I don't really know what that would taste like), maybe a slow Brett...

I do agree with you, best to have good beer. However, now with two kids in a demanding age the frequency of my brewing is not what I would like. But, turns out I didn’t have as much of the stale beer as I thought. I guess it is a good thing. The experiment will have to wait. However, I will keep...

Since I just remenbered I have a bunch of 5 liter glass carboys not being used I might just try it. But if someone has experience from it, it would of course be interesting to hear about it. I have pitched bugs afterward in experimental brews that didn’t turn out so great but where I think...

Hi I have a batch of what can best be described as a wheat chocolate oatmeal stout, where all pilsner malt was substituted for wheat malt, the only barley found in the dark malts. It had a fairly high FG of around 1017, OG 1055. It was fabulous but staled faster than I had hoped and was used to...