Recent content by Vermeer

By the way...that beer looks too good for a beginning Brewers to drink. Send it all to me.

I hope it turns out ok. You've probably bottled it by now. Let us know your flavor judgement.

Ok I forgot. I've used Amarillo and it's nice and mellow. Just ask your shop for something with more bite and they will show you. IPAs are great but u sound like you trend towards the classic Indian Pale in your taste. Go brave on hops. Stick with one strain. Impress yourself and your...

If you like the flavor mostly,. Just change your hops. Stay with the same strain once you pick it. Look for one with a high bitterness and add in 20 minute increments after u bring to boil. Put in one third of your total each time. If you want the hops coming out of your nose then add a fourth...

Looks fine. Maybe actually turn out good? Looks like a good dark beer and doing what you want it to do. It looks set up to be pretty clear. Sometimes air bubbles can cling and raise pieces to the top and once they get there the surface tension of the wort holds them up. That is making sense?

You know, I was in at my brew supplier and they do have drop (licorice) flavoring. How about it? Dark lager? Next brew? "Dropbier"

I opened another beer tonight. Good head retention and lacing. Not a large head however. The beer has a thick feels to it and is aging good. Mellow.

No bottle bombs or excessive carbonation noted yet.

The beer has been bottled. It is a deep copper color with an oatmeal aroma. It tastes like a medium alcohol content beer like maybe 5-6 percent. It has a low hops bite but wheat and oat flavors are very much present and goes down very quickly. 😉. 4 small Brewers Best conditioning...

Looks good. Wheat and oat volume percentage looks reversed to me from traditional formula but I'll bet this was a great tasting beer! I like the additives!

Hi JayEff. The oats were not mashed per typical fashion. Wheat and oats and barley dominate a Koyt. Wheat and barley came from LME. The oats in this case came for mouth feel and flavor but not alcohol content so much as the starch is not fermentable fully. I tried to do so beginner could...

Hi Fatdragon. My mistake was not mentioning I'm using 16 oz bottles and that I'm using conditioning tabs. 4 tabs is described as medium carb for a 12 oz bottle. Sorry about that. You might be right about Gruitbier. Holland can grow hops ok on trellis and we copy Belgian style. I can grow it in...

So I will be putting the carboy into the refrigerator tomorrow a.m. not sure why it went so quickly but taste test today confirmed this is beer and not syrup.

At 0700am, the visible fermentation has slowed considerably. Airlock now bubbling at 2 per minute with 50 percent of wort surface clear. The krausening foam was measured at 1 inch maximum height on the glass sides. The wart remains cloudy obviously at just under two days in the fermenter...

Hello, I'm Dutch and wanted to simplify the all grain process for making Koyt/Kuyt for the beginning Brewers who start with a 1-2 gallon carboy. Kuyt is from the 1400s in the Netherlands. Some call Gruit bier. It's the only ethnic beer I know the recipe for but it's complex so I'm trying to...