Recent content by zakdrummond

You guys are absolutely right. I am embarrassed to bring a problem beer into the brewery to get help. That's just the plain truth. I figured I was jumping into the deep end with the Berliner attempt but it's what I had been reading about and drinking at the time so I took a stab at it, and at...

Sorry all, I appreciate all of your insight! As a new member of HBT I can only post five times a day so had to wait a bit to come back. Yesterday I brewed again, paying attention to my process and noting any areas that could use improvement or could lead to questionable beer quality. I'm...

You know, that's something else I thought could've been happening. With the small batch size for my first two beers I just pitched straight from vile/smack pack.. if I remember correctly I used Wyeast for one batch and WL for the other. With this Berliner I had a 1L starter for both lacto and...

It's absolutely within reason that I'm not nailing describing this aroma! Thanks for taking this trip with me, though. I don't open the fermenter until I take a FG reading. I wait for fermentation to visibly stop, give it another day or two, take my FG and transfer to bottling (or today a keg)...

It is particularly cider-y, if "sweet" were an aroma I would say almost sweet. One of the saisons was fairly aggressively hopped and there was zero hop aroma after bottle conditioning. Until today I thought maybe the problem was oxidation from transfer to the bottling bucket but since there was...

Right, there are so many details to cover I didn't want to ramble on and on for my first post. I'm using Bru'n Water to build from distilled. I've used the "Yellow Balanced" profile for all three batches. I live in LA, and in part of the city where my water source will change from time to time...

Hey all, Despite having read maybe too much and having listened to maybe too many podcasts I haven't actually pulled the trigger on brewing very often at home. I'm brewing 3 gallon BIAB batches on my stovetop, have a temp controlled fermentation fridge and for my first two beers I attempted...