Recent content by simont

Curious what you thought of it. I just did a big IPA and the ferment seems to be going very slowly. I made a 2L starter w the gigayeast pack, pitched most of that to a 17.6 oxygenated wort and it took off 3 hours later. Was psyched about super short lag time. But I can't believe it's 7 days...

I've been looking around and can't find much on using potassium metabiasulphite in beers - specifically fruit beers. I have a low gravity wheat I want to add watermelon juice to. I've seen Dachs and others brew a watermelon wheat and the watermelon juice is fermented out when added to beer in...

2nd. I love BeerSmith and it's my primary software, but use iBrewMaster frequently just bc I can take it out to the back yard. Would definitely prefer BS for IOS...

Great thread. I've got a 12% quad that I want to bottle condition, and want to add champagne yeast to help carb. My question though is how much yeast to add? I've got about 4.5 gallons and want to get to 2.5 ~ 3 volumes.

mash/ sparge outdoors

DFH Indian Brown clone

Mother of Fermentation Chamber holdin it down

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mash/ sparge indoors

boil outdoors

stovetop

14 gal

yeast rinse

hops

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