Recent content by Mikent

Cool, I'll have to give that a try too

Thanks Man! I appreciate the input. I bought some lactic acid, so going to try that for my first batch of an IPA, and I plan to buy some acidulated malt, as you suggested to compare outcomes. I'll let you know how it goes!

I've had a look, but from what I have read, the cheaper pH meters are very unreliable, so I'd rather not throw away money on a junk one

Sounds like it's time to throw a party dude! If you don't have enough friends just tell the ones you have to bring another! People are dying for want of community right now, plus, a party fueled by homebrew might intice some people to get started!

Whoops! Forgot to take the pic before I got into it! That was a gnarly one! So heavy I had to cut it with some blue cheese and crackers. Background is the makimgs of a cocktail for the Mrs!

Thanks for the reply, I decided to buy some lactic acid and give it a try, though will have to rely on calculations as I can't afford a pH meter. I'll have a read of strange steve's guide just now. I guess the definitions are different over here, as my water is labelled as very hard by the...

Well, I made my own recipe based on what I had access to, but here's the gist of it: 6 lb Dark wheat malt (Weyerman, EBC 16) 2 lb 4.7 oz Vienna (Best Malz, EBC 8) 1lb 14.8 oz Extra pale pilsner (Weyerman, EBC 2.5) 15.2 oz Munich (EBC 14) 6 oz Special B (Dingemans EBC 300) 2 oz Carafa special...

Working on a version of this right now. I'll be back to share results and details soon!

I did this a couple of years ago, when I came back to homebrewing after 5 years away... I had a bunch of malts sitting in a sealed bucket, old packets of dry yeast (various), and a couple pounds of dried spray malt extract, but had no hops. So I bought some saaz and threw it all together, not...

Today I plan on racking my dunkelweisen into secondary, splitting the batch, and adding some stewed peaches and vodka-blanched roasted pecans to one part. Shooting for something like Shiner Cheer.

Thanks!

Hi all, So, I live in Kent in the UK where we have "very hard" water, my water report shows: Ca+2: 124 Mg+2: 4.6 Na+: 33.4 Cl-: 67 SO4-2: 70 HCO3-: 397 CO3-2: 1.826 GH: 328.3 Alkalinity: 328 I have no pH meter but assume it would be fairly high. So I've brewed several all grain and partial...

Hi all, I've been homebrewing intermittently for over a decade now, tried my hand at beers, ciders and country wines with varying degrees of success. I often lurk on here and read through forums for troubleshooting and thought it was aboit time I signed up and started contributing! Cheers