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I would say Saison and Bitter are my house beers. Followed by Kolsch style probably.

It sucks to see them closing storefronts. I definitely have used them in the past. I do still like NB as they have a large selection and I don't have anyone close for a LHBS. Weird to see that so many people hate NB when it's the holdings company that is doing this and not actual NB from what...

Obergäriges Lagerbier from Yahoo. This is my year of German style beer for sure. More Kölsch and Weiss styles from me this year.

This is my preferred method without using science. I know it's not perfect but I have been going off slurry amounts and keeping 200ml of each starter after decanting and I've seen really good results around 100ml of solid slurry after it settles. With lager yeast, I keep upwards of 500ml back...

I spiese my Hefeweizen beers when I bottle them. I keep a portion of the wort after the boil and then I mix it all in the keg and then bottle. I use this website. If you plan correctly and brew the same batches you can pull the portion from the fresh boiled and use with the already fermented...

Ended up 1.011 and looking pretty great. Still young and needs more time but I love the flavors so far. I have had it on gas for a week and it's close to levels so I moved it down to the 8 PSI I like serving these English styles on. Has notes of dark bread, light toast, bitter bakers...

I don't have my notes in front of me but I believe this was a dumper for me due to using the early big mouth bubblers and my house Saison/Brett blend that became extremely acetic due to O2 ingress. My efficiency was pretty poor too if I remember. I think I did 3 gallon batch shooting for 1.040...

Since I never temp control my Saisons anymore they rarely exceed 76ish or so whatever room temp is plus the extra heat from fermentation. I tend to get more earthy/spicy notes at this temp with a touch of light tartness. Fruitiness comes out more at higher temps for me. My old house strain of...

That's a good idea!

Dang well I'm going to try around 130-140F at first and see if that works. I've heard hotter is better as well unless your using agitation and I would think the spray ball would be pretty good agitation. Hoping I have some better luck.

How hot do you get your cleaning solution? Doesn't PBW work in not scalding hot water? At least it does for me in my kettles. I usually never go above 140F sometimes even not that hot. I know when I clean my kegs I do tap water hot and it works. Edit: PBW says effective range is 100-160F...

Old thread revival. I just picked this up after last night cleaning 5 kegs by hand. I have the Mark II but it broke many years ago. I'm brewing larger batches now and will have more kegs to clean for friends so I thought the price was worth it. My friends usually pay for the ingredients for...

So may not be as dark as I wanted but should still be good. Tasted good tonight. Sitting at 1.012 so I'll be kegging and fining tomorrow.

Dang Spalt hops are hard to come by now. I found some on eBay but the only other online source was AIH but they were $35 a LB. Weird bc I used to find them pretty cheap. I did get a LB on eBay for like $18 plus shipping though.

Technically dilution is dilution so what you did was fine. What I've done in the past, and seen others do, is top up after you boil and transfer to the fermenter. Figure out how much you need to dilute to the correct volume and achieve your target gravity. That way you have less worries with...

From everything I've read, like Spartan said above, it's an opportunity for the brewers to experiment. Different malts, hops, higher gravities, etc. I've even seen some DoppelStickes out there as well. Even more gravity and girth.

Forest and Main just did a collab of a Saison with some smoked malt. Not exactly the same but still not outside of the realm. I'd def read your thread when you post it.

Just a madman!

Just plugged this in beersmith and it did get me closer to what I like. 1.009 FG and from 1.048 right at 5.1% ABV. I can live with that so I'll try it. If anything, I could back off some of the grain if I wanted it lower ABV. But right at 5% is a nice spot too.

May need to get drinking! haha