Recent content by SwissRico

I have switched almost entirely to dry yeast and never rehydrate (they get sprinkled into the fermenter during transfer and aerated). I've had great results with the following: 1. BRY-97, US-05 2. Mangrove Jack's Empire Ale M15 3. SafAle BE-134 and LalBrew Farmhouse 4. Mangrove Jack's Bavarian...

... more from 2019 so far

Thanks. I'm the king of low-tech... I use MS Powerpoint for the text and alignment. The layout is pretty basic, a number of boxes for the texts and the image, and then some white lines to delimit them: my labels are 9.4cm x 9cm, so I can get 12 labels on a sheet of A3. Once I've got a...

Some of this years brews...

Made a version of this using all Weyermann Malt, and scaled for the Grainfather (experience of Rye and large grainbill on efficiency) 19l batch / 5USGal eff. 72% OG 1.067 FG 1.015 IBU 74 4.5kg 69% Pale Malt (Weyermann) 1.2kg 18% Rye Malt (Weyermann) 480g 7% CaraMunich III (Weyermann) 180g...

No wheat (nice labels)

So my brew club is doing a 1000l MO mash in a month or so, for 20+ folks. We're all then to go off, do our boils make some beer, then meet up for the tasting... Some folks are taking 200l, I'm only taking 30l - it's all I can handle. With a target OG of 1.050-1.055, I was thinking of brewing an...

I've called in some local knowledge from local home brewers and a brewery. Seems that very little adjustments are being made. I'm leaning toward cleaning residue ...

Tap water. But my Chloro levels in my region are on average 10mg/L... You can't tell the difference between the tap water and the water from the office cooler. This is the first time I've had this problem, after many brews...

It's been in the bottle for 6 weeks, was in the fermenter for 2.5weeks with Saf S04 yeast. And nope I didn't freeze it

And I think I would have noticed on previous brews

I don't have that problem. I have the same stuff they put in the Evian bottles...

So I have a christmas brown ale that has an off-smell of burning rubber. I've seen some mention of autolysis ...but this was only in the primary for a little over 2 weeks. It was a simple Partial OG 1.052 FG 1.016, Fuggles, + Cinnamon, vanilla and ginger, and the brew went well with no...

"The Mystery Machine IPA" (Partial mash, with "Mystery Malts" and Polaris, Cascade hops)

Been holding off on sharing these till I knew they would be used. These are for an inherited partial mash kit a friend gave me. The grain bill was unknown (which gave me the name), the yeast had to be replaced with Notty, and I adjusted the hop schedule and dry-hopping (+50g Cascade) to fit my...