Recent content by Stonga

Or....just be happy with the 65% and then put all the spent grain (still in the bag) into a fermenter then pour over about 10 litres of 70C water. Pull the bag and then check the gravity. Take a hyrodmeter reading to see if you can get another beer out of it. If the gravity is low then add...

Hi, Started a youtube channel about BIAB and my take on homebrew. Video quality if currently pretty bad but I'm wokring on it. Hope to get a brew day up soon. See link here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5E3rgRNANUvwAE_ry4AkpA Hope to see you there. Cheers

Thanks for the advice. I think I'm going to have to try a few iterations here...will keep you posted. I like to try and keep the first brew simple and then add things to the mix on the second go round. It is cold here in Norway for another few months (last summer the temp barely got above 10C)...

Interested to know how the spices work out. I did a spiced Christmas beer and the flavours didn't really work. I have a few bottles left and it just tastes a bit confused. Going to keep to hops, yeast, water and grain for a while.

Baltic Porter next week since I have some lager yeast in the fridge and also because I want to try a parti-gyle at the same time so need a high gravity brew to start with.

Are you temperature adjusting your hydrometer readings?

Really old thread but I'm thinking of doing a BP with parti gyle. Any tips or notes? Have you done it again? You got your first reply after 6 years!!! A record?

Also, since this is a bigger beer, I'm going to try a parti-gyle. I have tried to do the numbers and plan it but I'm just going to try it and WING IT! Probably going to end up with a brown/amber ale. Planning on using WLP001 that i have in the fridge and some hops that were left over from...

For the APA style you should be looking at 0.7 BU/GU.

Not sure what the effect of this will be. Following the thread to see what it turns out like.

Just finished a pint of this 2 mins ago. Very tasty beer with grapefruit hints. Similar recipe: 5kg Marris Otter 54g Cascade (9% alpha) Pure Pitch WLP001 - California Ale Yeast Mash at 68C/156F for 1 hour. Boil for 60 mins. 60mins - 18g Cascade15.8 IBUs 30mins - 18g...

So how long would you lager for in primary? Consensus seems to be to take the beer off the yeast cake and lager in a secondary to avoid yeasty flavours.

Seen a lot of different opinions on this. Consensus seems to be to lager off the primary yeast cake. How long would you lager in primary?

I'm a little cautious with the Polaris. Just used it in a lager and samples of it are very bitter. Not sure that the AA is quoted correctly.

*bitterness