Recent content by stucozzy

Thanks All--This plus a great episode of NB's Brewing TV (BTV 26--Big Beer Brewing) confirmed that I completely stressed my yeast and made a crappy attempt at a starter. If you only could get a few new items to slowly build my homebrewery (based on this thread) what would it be? Gas stone...

It's seems from these posts that my treatment of the yeast was the culprit. Out of curiosity, since using simple sugar to make a starter, turns the yeast off to converting malt, how come the hyrdo readings still reduce? (How does fermentation still occur? ) Is the fermentation...

I think using the 2 smack packs will at least eliminate the yeast variable when I brew this again.

Why all the Phenols!? I’ve brewed a total of maybe 10 beers. All extract with specialty grains. Of those, only 3-4 were drinkable; 2 were decent. And only decent. They were my first two. The rest all had a clove, Robitussin (minus the cherry), medicine, clove, twang—all my roommates...