Recent content by SmashmouthBeerBrewing

~1.065, it was supposed to be in the low 40s I'm sure it'll be fine, my question is really more of a finer point. Like do any flavors change with this, does it change fermentation speed. This is my first attempt at altering a recipe kit so between dropping some of my mid-boil hops and...

Could it be that with less water you could potentially hit whatever alcohol level that starts killing off yeast sooner than if it was more diluted? I think I read at 12% the alcohol kills off yeast, that's why sam adams had to come up with their own strain of yeast to make that Utopias that...

I got a reply somewhere else that says this is what some brewers do intentionally to make a lower alcohol beer without cutting back flavor. They make a high gravity wort but don't cut it all the way until later on. Which, oddly enough, is the point of this golden ale. Making an all day...

This isn't a "did I blow it" question, simply a "what happens next" question. I made a golden ale saturday, and moved it to my secondary for dry hopping yesterday, only 4 days into the process. I noticed I may have taken "relax, have a homebrew" too literally saturday and evidently I...

It's definitely a strong one but I forget its fighting weight right now. I guess this is what we get for using brew books from the 90s. The process definitely works, but I'm all for removing extra steps.

Interesting...

Well good to know about the strainer. But are you saying no secondary in general, or just for porters/stouts? Pretty sure you mean the latter, but just being safe ;)

No, not a bag. We got our initial gear in a kit and it came with a funnel that has a little screen at the bottom to catch big chunks of crap. We've been using that going from primary to secondary fermenters, and before bottling. But we keep it a hair away from where it's going to reduce...

When we've done ales, we move the batch from the plastic bucket (primary) to a glass carboy for secondary, but run it through a filter/strainer to catch the huge chunks of hops. We do try and keep the aeration down as much as possible. The book we started learning from said to do it when you...

We just did our 4th beer, our first porter, last week but our kit/recipe didn't mention fermentation times or methods at all which is a first for us. We looked through a few recipe books for other porters, and here, but we'd like to remove rookie speculation if we can. Most porter recipes...

Very interested in a carboy cleaner