Recent content by the_owl

Personally Ive tried to replicate HT 3 times, with three different approaches, and didnt get close. Lifes too short to keep brewing the same recipe. Only get so many orbits

My Heady Topper clone that I still cant clone after three tries:

Well I decided to not re-pitch and a day after I transferred and set it to 67, its started back up! Not sure why it stalled. But it went to 1.028, and today it was at 1.024.

I use a spider sometimes and if it's a multi hop addition beer I'll use the hop tubes (400) with a string attached. Pull them out to the sides when I Whirlpool. I can't hardly get my gf to come to a boil so having the top cracked for the hop spider doesn't help things. One time my tube came...

I have a glycol chiller and my transfer/sanitation is spot on! The transfer went from a brewtech bucket spout to another brewbucket spout full of cO2 and an airlock. I have a white labs Edinburgh yeast in the fridge. Should I even bother or just enjoy? The reason I went ahead and brewed is...

To answer. I took a hydrometer reading while still in primary. Stayed at 1.032 for three days. Yeast starter spilled almost all out. Made a new starter about 16 hrs before brew. Pitched that. It was dark brown. I was going to live with the results but was asking if another yeast add would be...

Hey there, brewed a big Baltic Porter a few weeks ago. Recipe indicated 1.088 and it came in at 1.087. had a yeast issue where my starter fell off the plate (don't ask). I ran to my local and all he had was June expired white labs in my flavor. I bought two and made another starter the day...

Has anyone used the grainfather for this clone? If so which recipe did you use?

Hi there, I read lots o f this thread and watched videos. I brewed this beer March 31st and bottled in bombers last week: I batch sparged, and fermented at 66 ish for 4 days then brought it up to 71. I sampled before bottling and it was fantastic! Ive only had Heady once since I live in the...