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Can anyone advise me of why this would happen. It has happened in the last 2 batches, the last one I split and dry hopped one and left the other without dry hops. The one without the dry hops actually exhibited MORE skunk but it tasted wicked good. Both batches AG have different malt/hop (one...

Thanks guys. Am going to try the Motueka and Citra this time around cos Im saving my Simcoe for a Green Flash Clone. I will post the results in a few weeks.

Has anyone got any tried and true recipe hop pairings for a pale ale using motueka? There are a heap of recipes using this hop w cascade, but I really want to aviod cascade cos I use it in just about every recipe I make I've researched a bit and come up w Amarillo and simcoe, any other...

Guys, I want to make a super light colored American Blonde/Pale ale and need a few opinions as to some issues. Im looking at a 2-3SRM in color. Ive never done anything so light so Im looking at using pilsner malt and some flaked wheat or jasmine rice. I know it shouldnt make any...

Has anyone tried Fish Gelatin for fining beer in the keg vs Beef Gelatin in the keg??? Is there any flavour carryover and is one better than the other? I have found that there is a slight flavour carry over in beef gelatin. Any advice is appreciated.

Some time ago i gave away bottling and went to kegs, however for a multitude of reasons (keeping justification short) Ive decided to go back to bottles but 330ml/12oz in size but keep fining/dryhopping/force carbing the beer in cornys. The problems im facing is that once the beer is carb'd up...

Guys, I know Mr Malty has a yeast pitching rate calc for slurry, but the batch i put in last night, i have obviously over pitched cos it blew the blowofftube out of the fermenter within 3 hours. My Mr Malty pitchingrate was based off the harvest date, and then woken up in the morning with...

Just wanna know what everyones preference in terms of another hop that goes well with Centennial other than Cascade. Im looking to make an American Blonde/Light Pale for the "Leadup to Xmas BBQ's" and cant make up my mind what to pair it with. I have almost 2kg of Cent in the freezer that I...

sorry let me clarify..... I carb'd the corny originally at 2degC and got it to 2.3volumes, however my fridge that houses my cornys is also my fermenting fridge so whenever I do a batch I have to raise the fridge temp to fermenting temps (I live in a tiny apartment so i cant afford the real...

Dumb question.... I have a keg that is carb'd but at the moment its sharing the fermenting fridge so its at about 18degC. When Ive bottled my beer lately and then put the bottles in the fridge they go flat. Is there less CO2 at 18degC in solution so therefore when I chill the bottles down...

I dont understand..... I mean i do but I dont in my situation. My DH's are in a stocking in the keg, but I still get this super astringent hop residue (esp from the first pour) but subsequent pours after that with fine grain hop matter.... dont you guys get that too? I ended up taking my...

when you guys are carbing your cornys, how much headspace have you got in your keg? Would having more headspace and turning the corny on its side to create more CO2 surface area to the beer carb it any faster?

I have a few beers in kegs at the moment in storage @ 57F and I was wondering, untouched, how long would I expect the Dry Hop characters in the beer to last as a generalization? I know Stone recommend that the freshness of thier beers is about 90 days? And if it dissipates (which I know it...

I didnt think about the dry ice concept, BUT something along a similar line..... What about dumping the grain into a trash bag and then half a tank of CO2 into the bag? Do you think that would be enough to kill em?

About 4 months ago i asked a brewer friend of mine to buy me 2x25kg bags of malt from Muntons in preparation for a bunch of brews I was going to do. 1 wheat and the other a pilsner. I put them in my coolroom for storage and since then had a car accident and broke a few major bones, so havent had...

Guys, Im having a similar problem except mine is a case of I have a perfect level of head but its made up of SUPERFINE bubbles and there are NO BUBBLES in solution. i have not over carbed the beer and it pours perferctly I understand the need for nucleation sites but in my case my beer...

Hey guys n gals I was in Australia recently in one of the southern states and I visited a small rural microbrewery and bought a range of their beers to sample at home including their wheat ale. I personally am not a fan of the style (reminds me of the hot alcohol flavors you get when you...

Yesterday I brewed a Janet's brown ale and I've over pitched the starter. Whats going to happen? I built the starter up twice from a 3 month old 1056 slurry that was washed twice and stored in the fridge as a 1L 1040 beer, which I then left to settle then decanted, then did another 1040 but...

I know this is an old thread but Im discovering the same thing with my batches. Last 4 dry hopped batches, all with Centennial, Cascade and Amarillo all have the same thing, a cooked corn or perhaps a wet grass flavour about them. All were dry hopped @20C for no more than 10 days. Originally...

Can someone recommend a reliable online site that has a good range of malt and hops that ships internationally and to South East Asia with a expedient delivery schedule? Im really getting tired of the one LHBS in my part of the world that thinks it is acceptable to sell Pilsner malt in the...