Recent content by Tomfolli

just transferred to get it off the original cake, smells very alcoholic, gravity at 1.01, which is dry enough for me, so i'm going to bottle tonight. i'd do it now but I have work in 45 minutes and I'm not that speedy haha. yeast did some weird thing that it didn't do during the first...

Just got back from my trip, it's been sitting on the original cake for 10 days after transfer, and it appears as if no more bubbling happened. so, i guess I'm gonna transfer, take a gravity reading, and if it's still where it was, I'm gonna go buy a new yeast packet and try again! I'll keep you...

what does oxidation impart to the beer? like what off flavors? just skunky/stale? also, when I transferred, because I knew i wasn't sure what to do and knew i'd have to think about it, i airlocked the almost-empty bucket with the yeast, and i only waited about ten minutes before I decided to...

Wyeast belgian Saison. I actually just dumped the trub cake back into the beer that I had transferred. I figure that will get more yeast back into suspension to kickstart the rest of fermentation and I think the risk of any off flavors is minimal. Yeast is pretty good at cleaning up after itself.

Hey y'all, Been fermenting a saison for 3 wks now, sitting on my back porch wrapped in a towel in the new orleans heat, so it's been going up and down between about 85 and 95 the whole time. I thought it would be ready to bottle, so i started transferring to my bottling bucket before i took...

Thanks guys! i think i may cut down a bit on the hops, but not too much. gotta love them hops. How about the malts? do wheat and lager extracts work well? what would change if i substituted some of the lager malt extract for some crystal malt extract?

Hey all- This is my second batch of homebrew, all extract, and I have lots of questions. I'm going for an easy drinking summer beer, my jaggery pale ale is a bit too heavy and bitter for hot weather, though quite delicious. I decided to go fruity, but only slightly so. Anyway, for a 5 gallon...