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It didn't turn out really dry for two reasons: the carafoam and the short (2 week, 50F) "lager" time. I had many Molsons, coors, and labbatt drinkers say that this was the best beer they ever had. That surprised me as I would have thought their tastebuds would have been close-minded after...

I agree - bottling bucket. Add a hose clamp and 6" of hose to the spidgot - and it will make life even easier as you will not have any foam. Cheers,

Welcome ! This place: http://www.grainsmaltes.com/ is quite good in terms of price and selection. I used my poor french to order by email - and everything was good. I believe thats its less than an hour from Montreal - and I think that its a home/mail operation - but they can accomodate...

I would recommend using a similar hop profile and style that you have used with your PM so that you have a means of comparison between the two methods. If you wanted something different, try to keep your grain bill fairly simple. If you make something great, you will have no idea of what it...

Try Nottingham Ale dry yeast. Everything I read about it says its the cleanest ale yeast - and does not produce typical ale fruitiness. I have a "lager" grain bill, but used this ale yeast...its too early to tell, but so far, it is quite neutral in profile (fermented @ about 65F). The...

I kinda like the skunkiness (for some beers) - so does the wife. She likes corona and PC Lager (Cdn beer)... I don't think I'd do this for more than one batch/year - but the fun part of this is actually suceeding in making a decent clone. (even though used nottingham dry ale yeast). This...

Update: After 8 days in bottle. Everything cleared nicely. I bottled in clear glass and left the beer in the hot sun for about 1.5 hrs. I'll be damned, it took on a nice skunkiness like a corona. I don't know if the skunkiness will change over time - but for now, this is a really good...

How about a mainly wood frame - with the metal joined by bolts/lock washers around the burner part. Cheers.

Ya, 5G never seems like enough....it goes to quickly. When doing AG, there really isn't much a difference in time when doubling the batch. And the extra costs in ingredients are negligable. Cheers,

Welcome aboard ! ...a few more...and we will start the take over..... Cheers.

After 4 AGs, I was able to hit a good efficiency this weekend. I was used to doing large, 15G batches when extract brewing so I tried 10 and 12 gallon batches when going AG. I was never able to hit my volume targets....10 G batches were 8 G...12's came out to 10.5 Gs, etc. I never even...

Welcome aboard ! If you have 5 gallon equipment -you should use it - most people (like myself) can't hold back on tasting throughout the process. Cheers.

I have seen this same picture with the caption "Leaf blower". Cheers.

..How about a freezer and/or controller for lagers.... Cheers.

I had the same thing one time. I knew mine was a mold as the FG was finished, but the mold kept growing (from 3-4 weeks into the secondary). The stuff mostly dissapated when bottling. It reminded me of white pond scum. My bottles had some in the neck, but it died from the CO2. Papazian...

Thanks for all the replies. I have switched to lagers since going AG....so I am using one hop at a time (per brew) so I can get more familiar with them. I love Saaz and Hersbrucker. I have the Clone brews book - but there wasn't a commercial example of something that used Spalt. I will...

Hello, I have some Spalt hops - and will use them in an upcoming lager. I have read some descriptions on the ingredients/hops page here. Does anyone have any more first hand info/experience on these hops in terms of flavour/characteristics? Cheers.

I had one wyeast smack pack that was 1 year past the best before date. I had one week until brew day - and decided to smack it thinking that if it doesn't work, I got some dry yeast subsitute. It didn't swell for 3 days, then balloned on the fourth day..... Cheers.

Walmart...somewhere near laundry detergent and the floor cleaning stuff. Cheers.

You can get really complicated with a calibrated, gravity feed-spinny thingy....or just something that slowly releases water into the top of the mash-tun without distirbing the grainbed. I got drunk whilst making a copper manifold...and it looked bad. I have this with the slots up, as my...