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Well, 34/70 has been warm fermented really well up to ale temps. It's fairly easy to say it'll do fine at 21, specially if you pitch it at 12.

Heh, thanks mate. We got more tests this morning, and so far he has: Rotavirus, Adenovirus, Metapneumovirus, and Parainfluenza 3 virus, alongside some other bacterial stuff as mentioned. In light of the fact that I'm no better tonight, I'm not going to be tapping these beers tonight. I'll...

No, but in my experience sucrose results in a sharper bite in the beer than when using dextrose, DME or invert sugar. Think of a cheap American Lite Lager, the finish of the beer typically ends up with a sharp bite. It's still there when you use dextrose (because they use corn syrup as well)...

Exactly. Yeast cannot consume sucrose, being a disaccharide. It does contain the enzymes to break is down into monosaccharides though, just like we do. We also can't utilize sucrose, our bodies breaks it down into glucose and fructose, if I'm remembering this correctly, the same as yeast...

And another update. Yesterday, shortly after I posted the above we saw a doc with the youngest, and was promptly admitted to hospital with him. He has confirmed Rotavirus (as do we all, apparently) and suspected Enterovirus as well as an antibiotic-resistant bacterial middle ear infection...

You can use sucrose, yes. It's better to invert it first (boil it for a while with some acid), it makes less work for the yeast (yeast can't consume sucrose). Check out a video from CraigTube who did just this test and gave feedback on it. It's not THAT bad, specially brewing in a pinch.

Alright, we're about a week away from when the kegs are to be cracked, and as luck would have it we're taking a trip down to the coast with family and friends and I'd like to take a few of these beers with me. As a result, I'm going to be working this week on getting the first pours from the...

You can try and make it a sour and find a bacteria that'll eat the lactose, if you want to try and offset the sweet with a touch of sour, but yeah, I'm not a fan of lactobacillus in my beers. By the way, 15 gravity points increase from 1.010 to 1.025 is a lot. It tells me you added 15 gravity...

Those deer look dangerous. Like they're craving some violince.

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Keep in mind that anything under 0.5% ABV isn't even strong enough to get you drunk, no matter how much you drink of it, so worrying about a difference between 5.51% ABV and 5.6% ABV on a homebrew level, for me, is just a waste of time. I typically work on the rounded value, so in that case I'd...

Yeah if you're using distilled water, that might really easily be why your gravity is in the dumps. There's just not enough nutrients in there for the enzymes to do their jobs. Your numbers also seem odd. I think we need more information.

Depends on the time of the year. Like this time we have now, deep winter, I brew very little. Come Spring though, in prep for the summer and the holidays and Christmas and everything, then I like to brew a bit more. Then it's not funny for a keg to die very quickly, so I like having kegs...

For the most part, my hands don't touch the stuff that needs to remain sanitized after it's been sanitized, so I'm not worried about it.

Calling a beer made with a clean ale yeast a "pseudo lager" in some circles be like...

Not sure if I posted this before, but back to the test. I bottled a few of those Lutra beer and after 2 weeks in the bottle they're nicely carbonated now. I have already popped a few. They are fantastic. It's starting to show hints of a German Pilsner, which I made, but it seems like the...

It's fun to stay at the Y MCA!

...yet I also first did it as a "throw it together and see what happens" thing, but quickly realized that the biological and chemical aspects of brewing is not only interesting as hell, but knowing a bit about it and working towards doing it "right" makes for waaaaay better beer.

It's funny, but that's actually how x-rays are taken of kids who can't sit still, just FYI.

@bracconiere can you confirm if the dimensions on these are identical to regular picnic taps? Asking because I found out a 3/8" regular Valpar beer line fits perfectly into the opening on a regular plastic picnic tap. I use that fact, with a longer beer line and a piece of 3/8" cut to around...