Search results

There is a retired guy down the street who does it more of a hobby. He brews more like 1 barrel a month sometimes two.

I want to make a beer using fresh hops but I am a little intimidated about making my beer taste like grass. I have definitely had some commercial beers with an intense grassy flavor before. If I add my wet hops towards the end of the boil I am worried it wont add the bitterness I need. I have...

Yeah I was stirring also to lose some heat, after adding water my mash was still a little higher then i wanted and thinner then I wanted.

Can't wait for the other parts, wish he said more.

thanks

Can you mix your mash to much and if so what does that do? And how much is to much I mix for maybe 4-5 min so i dont have any hot spots left?

yes please

im in

im down

count me in too please

yeah I was just reading the Mad Fermentationist and he was suggesting cooler temps seem to be better warmer temps can get a lot of bad bacteria, and its been in the 90's for a while. He seemed to suggest that it is dependent on the season. I might just try dropping some berries in the wort, and...

What flavor do i get from the phenols and esters from your average saison yeast.

So I have two questions one is do you want to make a yeast starter for a saison ? I was thinking that different stresses on the yeast will create different flavors. So if i really wanted to accent some of those flavors wouldn't i want to not have a starter. My next question is does temperature...

I live in a part of california with lots of wild grapes and blackberries so I was going to try putting out a few low gravity starters to try and cultivate some wile yeast. The temperature swings are pretty drastic over the day 45 at night and 90's during the day. How many days should I leave my...

cool thanks. Its more of a numbers thing just seeing how it compares to the last batch.

I forgot to take a final gravity reading of my beer and it is already keged under pressure. Will this effect my gravity reading?

I have a New Belgium glass that has etching on the bottom of a bicycle. I noticed that I can see bubbles "coming" from the etched bicycle on the bottom. What causes this? This was even happening towards the end of the beer.

It's kinda fuzzy in this photo, it almost looks like it could be gas, but I would just leave it. If you have an infection I think transferring might lead to the same results. Monitor it over the next day or two for growth.

you live in your car and brew out of a tent

I found first wort hop additions to help a little in my foam reduction