Recent content by Trueblue

Considering where I'm at in the world and the wide variety of unknown variables, grain quality self malted, non brand yeast, wild hops (untested and all I have for bittering as well as aroma) I was curious if anyone has shrunk recipes and just made numerous one gallon batches? And if so, once...

Highly considering it, made a nice dehydrator so I can stop the germination exactly when I want out of screen, a fan, tinfoil and lightbulbs. Dries 20 pounds in 10 hours and its perfect. Bottles are free, caps are 50 for 3 dollars, and grain is a dollar for 6 kilos and everything else I built...

Yeah as in AA. Like a Centennial runs on average of 9 to 11.5 AA from a farm I know so instead of paying for testing I approximate it at 10.25 AA. I couldn't identify them either online. Problem is that I have to use them for bittering as well because its all I have over here (moved to Romania)...

Yeah I could rig something up if I can find something. I was thinking of actually looking in a hardware store, some kind of industrial gauge for water heaters or something. It's sparse here to say the least. For toasting the grain, I could run a medium temp on the stove and see how fast the...

No, so far the only yeast they have on the shelf says "beer yeast", people cook with it which leads me to believe it's an Ale. I have looked EVERYWHERE. I just found a local commercial beer with an incredible amount of yeast and started a 15ml culture from it in some fresh wart. I will know in a...

Ok, I recently moved to Romania so the only hops I have are all these wild hops. But I don't know what kind they are to do a mid-range application when I add them. Normally if I know a brand of hops is generally 5-7 I shoot for 6, but I can't find anything online to help identify what exactly...

I have a big problem. I recently moved to Romania where I just germinated a batch of malt, but its getting time to prepare it, and they don't sell oven thermometers here, ANYWHERE! They look at me like I'm stupid, like, "what would you need something like that for?" So, any suggestions on...

Well I'm kind of lucky because having the eye for looking through beer, the local beers here still have clumps of visible yeast. They have many non filtered beers locally make. The packages you buy here just say 'brewers yeast'. Nothing else. I will try a packet to see what happens for flavor...

Yooperbrew... I'm a Yooper myself, is the weather getting cold up there yet? I imagine the fall colors are starting to show some.

Laur, come to Isvoarele, I'll give you some good fresh spring water. It's 45 minutes south of you.

Hello all. I'm from Michigan, but live in the Romanian country for the time being. New to this forum! I have hops growing out my ears in the wild here. I've never used such fresh hops. I have a 100 pounds of barley and tis the season. It's going to be interesting because they don't have the...