Recent content by millses

Is your ph meter calibrated? If so, you could have used to much acid malt.

I'm drinking something light and refreshing. Pale malt with some dextrose. Also, a little crystal 10 for sweetness... German noble hops... Very drinkable!

Brew a batch of beer and have a pile of stinky trash laying around. If you do this, you may have stinky trash beer. :cross:

I'm currently consuming my signature Smooth Sailor Summer Ale. It's a very simple dry extract beer with WYEAST Cream ale yeast. I use Cascades and Saaz as my hops.(I know mixing German Noble hops with American hops is a little crazy):D Also put in 3/4 oz. sweet orange peel at the end of the...

Also one more thing, I have been bottling beer for some time and I stir my beer while adding boiled sterilized corn sugar in water. I lightly stir the beer after adding the solution. I have aged beer for 4 months and have had NO CARDBOARD FLAVOR. If you lightly stir the solution, you most...

In my experience when bottling with corn syrup, it definately carbonated my beer but didn't carbonate it enough. I used northern brewers priming sugar calculator and the measurements were off. I gave it a shot because it was cheaper but corn sugar really isn't expensive; I would definately...

Don't forget... You can also remove chlorine with kmbs. It has many wonderful uses.

Based on what I've read I'm gonna give it a shot. Brewed a honey oat amber ale recently and i gotta use some screw cap bottles. Gotta have some roast beers for the warmer months; I love em too much to make them seasonal.

As samc said, you can under pitch with just one pack per 5 gallon batch. I brewed a 5 gallon batch Amber with an og of about 1.050. I used 2 packs and the beer turned out excellent. It's nice and clean with a touch of fruit. The nose is a little yeasty. It finished at about 1.005. It's such...

I will vote yes on Muntons Ale yeast. I have brewed 2 beers with the yeast and they have both turned out great. Both have been malty style beers and the yeast works excellent with them. It has a very clean flavor and provides a clean malt finish. The finishing gravity has been higher using...