Recent content by Rubs

I'm so in. Totally going to win this.

So, I've finally finished drinking this batch. It turned out way too alcoholic at first, but mellowed nicely over a few weeks. It was a bit dark-coloured, with a good head. The last few beers became too carbonated. Very dry, light body. Super fruity, I think of apples, kind of reminds me of a...

I know, right? :P I had quite a lot of activity when I checked it in the morning, yeast going up and down, it almost looked like it boiled. The kreusen was making loud sputtering(is this the right word?) sounds.

I went for it! I did a gravity reading the day after brewday, and it had dropped from 1,068 to 1,018. My kreusen has dropped for good, and I put the lid on it. As for the yeast, I'm using the Nottingham yeast from Lallemand. I usually use White Labs, but brewday was kind of improvised, so I...

Hey'all! Brewing my second verson of an ekstra bitter English style IPA today. As it so happened, my efficiency went through the roof when I tried a different sparge method. Anyways, I am now making a quite stronger beer, like a weak Imperial IPA or something. I though maybe I'd experiment a...

Ok, good :) THANK YOU PIE MAN! I'm thinking 50/50 Saaz/Hallertau.

Hello forum. I'm planning a slightly hoppy Saison. I will be using Columbus for bittering, but what do you think of a Saaz and Hallertau combo for aroma additions? Should there be a certain ratio between the two hops to balance the aroma?

That, my friend, is great news! :D Sent from my GT-I9300 using Home Brew mobile app

No problem! Well, I guess it's the lack of proper shaking that did it then.

I made a 1 liter starter, let it finish fermenting, decanted, and pitched the yeast into a 2 liter starter.

Hmm. That is if I used a 2 liter starter. But I made a 1 liter starter first, and then stepped it up to a 2 liter. According to YeastCalc I should have gotten 364 with intermittent shaking. Though, I didn't get to shake it as much as I'd like to, and the numbers do look more realistic if I...

The vials have been stationary for a couple days now, so I think so. I'm REALLY good at counting though, so I might just do that :p Sent from my GT-I9300 using Home Brew mobile app

I used the BrewersFriend calc. The starter did it's thing for three days, and I shook it whenever I could. Cold crashed overnight, decanted and pitched into the 2 liter starter the next morning and did it all again. I'll check the millimeters when I get home, but compared to a new vial, it looks...

Hello. I've made a 1L starter from a wlp001 vial, and I stepped it up to a 2L starter, which should provide about 400 billion yeast cells. I cold crashed it, and put it in 4 old vials for storage. But it doesn't really look like it's 100 billion cells in each vial, it looks like there's about...

Haha! I think I'll just save it for a better suited beer. I guess Hallertau deserves to shine :)