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Brewed a Mexican amber lager for my first attempt at Biab and it went pretty well. My crankenstien mill was set so a credit card didn't quite fit through so I left it like that and didn't do a double crush. Started with about 7.5 gallons for a full batch with 12 lbs of grain. After draining...

Friday I am going to brew a lager with Omega’s Mexican lager yeast. I will do a starter but have a couple questions. If I make the starter on Wednesday evening and cold crash it Thursday night is that enough time? On brew date do I keep it cold or take it out and let it get to room temp before...

I had a keg of beer that was over carbed when my regulator failed and it was carbed up to 50psi. I kept bleeding off the gas from the keg for about a week and replaced my regulator ( cheap chinese junk). When there wasn't any gas let off when I pulled the blow off I reconnnected it to gas and it...

I just tapped a keg of this using the original basic recipe. The family really enjoyed it over Christmas. I had been making a version of Austin Homebrews begian wit that has always been a hit, but this new one is the best so far. I do have to add more orange to it since it came out very light on...

Here is the recipe as I brewed it from RCCOLA. This is close to being the best beer I have made so far. Plan to make another batch in the spring when I can lager in my garage. Modelo Negra Clone Recipe 04/17/2012 BeerSmith 2 Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com Recipe: Negra Modelo clone...

This thread was just what I was looking for. I have a keg in my keezer that I need to pull out to cold condition a keg of Beermuncher's Ocktoberfast for a party at the end of September. I was going to bottle it using his "We no need a stinking beer gun". Now I can pull the keg and put it back in...

It won't vent out because the co2 pushes down the poppet in the post to inject it into the beer.

For me it sounds like I will do a diacetyl rest and then lager. time isn't a big deal and since it won't hurt I will do it. When I got home from work and saw all the comments in this thread I was suprised. Great people on this forum always willing to help make it a great place to spend time...

What does it taste like?

I am in the process of brewing a Modelo Negra clone which is m first lager brew. I have it in the primary right now and plan on ding a diacetyl rest at the end of primary fermentation. My question is do I let it warm up in the primary and then transfer when I am going to go to the lagering...

Thanks this is the info I was looking for. I kept getting confused the more I read on it. I like BIAB is less time consuming and plan to try it in a couple weeks for my next batch.

I have a 10 gallon pot and a recipe that calls for a 10.5Lb grain bill. I can do the no sparge method with this pot? If I figure 1.25Qts. per pound that rounds to about 2 1/2 gallons. My boil off is 1.25 gallons per hour so I add that to the 2 1/2 and get 3.75gallons. Then I add in the...

Brewed a batch of this today, but ran into an effciency problem. Came out with a 58% efficiency. I did have an issue with my mash temp dropping more than usual. I ended up with a temp of 145 after the 75 minutes. I did put some 195 degree water in for sparge and let it sit for about 10 minutes...

Thanks for the recipe. One question corn starch? Is this the corn starch from one's kitchen?

RRCOLA I would be interested in your recipe if you could post it.