Recent content by Roycebarrow

Yeah this is difficult to figure out because I want to assume there is chlorine as there is in the states, but im not seeing anything on any report here. But as you stated, it is always best to go with the safest route and do due diligence, which I believe has been done.

@Miraculix First off dig the name haha, I have watched those cartoons quite a bit to help learn German better. I have the trinkwasseranalyse from the city which is posted on the stadtwerke site, I couldn't find any on it, so I sent off to ward labs to double check.

I see....thanks

How is chlorine reported on this water report? and sorry for the chicken scratch

Thanks! Yeah I’m looking at some recipes from Charlie p’s homebrewers gold book. I guess it makes sense.

I have a recipe that calls for 3.5 HBUs of perle hops. I think I have this figured out, but could someone double check it please? and if it is not correct, could you explain how to do it correctly? so, if I have 1 oz of perle at 6.5% alpha that would be 6.5 HBUs? Which means to get 3.5, I...

Very informative. I usually stir then take some from the valve, and that is what I check gravity, and conversion with.

Yeah I see a lot of guys squeezing their bags like crazy online, I just had a good pre boil volume so didn't mess with it. However, that would be a good experiment to squeeze it and track the change in gravity.

@soccerdad My city's water report says 7.74, my meter says 7.91 I saw the difference so I sent off to ward labs but have not gotten a report back from them yet but hopefully this week. ezwater estimated 5.5 and I got 5.61 after adjustments. the water report from the city was from 2016. im...

@soccerdad , I too am on the side of minimal or laziness as I usually have 15 other things going on at once when I brew. Thanks for the info @mongoose33 , I adjusted my grinder to .020 previously, and was wondering if grain may be getting through causing the off taste, but I checked the bag...

Yeah I use EZwater to calculate adjustments to my strike water to hit mash ph and I ended with about 5 3/4 gallons in the carboy. again I didn't sparge or squeeze the bag. I'm going to have to wait until this batch turns out to see if I still get the same taste in it.

thanks, I was starting to wonder if this tied back somehow to the weird taste I was having for a couple of batches by not mashing with the 1.5 to 2 qts.

Hey PADAVE, I crushed the grains at .020 with my grain mill, I checked periodically with iodaphor and waited until it mixed light/clear as opposed to a very dark brownish color that won't mix. I have had issues in the past with a very grainy/burnt'ish taste, so I was very careful with my method...

looking for info on full volume / no Sparge biab mashes. Yesterday, I brewed the nut case brown ale from jaspers home-brew. I boiled the full 7.5 gallons so that by the end of the boil / trub / and transfer, I would still have 5.5 gallons to throw in the carboy. I mashed in and obviously it is a...

I have one of the big mouth bubblers and what I do is dry off the air lock bung, the inner and outer diameter of the seal, and the blue top before pushing it on. I also wipe the inside of the carboy that the seal contacts with a paper towel to dry it off. If everything is dry the lid wont pop...