I used 2 gallons of cider and 2 gallons of fresh from the fruit plums. I boiled the plum juice with a gallon of water and 1 pound of sugar for 20 minutes. Was I a crazy person doing this? I used a wine yeast suggested to me figured it should turn out ok. did I mess up by not using pectic...
lots of getting me thinking here. I think I will take of the ideas and give them a go! I'm gonna start with a rye saison though. My homebrew store doesnt carry wyeast so i will have to get a belgian saison vial. How much rye are we talking in one of these?
I brew all grain and I have made a bunch of common styles. I am trying to find something really interesting to make. Anyone have a crazy interesting beer that I could brew at ale temps? I only have the means of mashing 25 lbs of grain, so don't go overly imperial on me or anything. I normally...
i dont know what i did to my ipa to be honest. I pulled a gravity reading from it every other day for 6 days to make sure it was staying at the FG. IT was ready hoppy then though, i sampled each time. The airlock issue is what im thinking it has to be.
So I had a batch of IPA lose hop flavor and smell, I mean all of its hop flavor and smell after cold crashing my beer in the fridge for 3 days. When I checked on the beer on the 3rd day the air lock had almost all of the vodka sucked out of it into the beer and it was super frustrating. So, my...
I brewed a beer a month ago, last week i moved it to my fridge to cold crash and i noticed today that the aroma on my beer has almost completely gone away. The beer opened with a FWH of cascade 1oz and 1oz chinook at the opening of the boil I added 1oz of each again with 5 minutes remaining on...
I am cold crashing for the first time and I have had to refill my airlock 3 times in the past couples days. Is there something I can do to avoid this from happening? I don't want an infected cream ale!