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Making a maibock using Lutra. Og is 1.066 and after 9 days we are down to 1.022 and still bubbling. Temp at night gets to 74 and maybe 80 during the day.

In '94 when they played that song, man I was glad I was there, in the New Orleans Superdome (seats about 75K), they had this huge mirror ball that rose up from the back of the floor seats and then opened like a hug flower and when the lights hit it, the entire arena felt like it shrank. We were...

Thanks, I'll do that as 5 days fits better into my process. I brew on the weekends and everything revolves around a Saturday or Sunday. As far as hops go, the ones listed above are the oldest, from Jan-July of 2020 and most are year 2019 crop. I must have 30 different hops and a new hop box...

I have a base extract pale ale beer recipe I use to test hops' flavor. It is as close to a SMaSH as you can get with DME. Single hops in this have really come through. I did a Medusa on one brew and a Motueka on another and was really impressed with the flavor. It is a quick 30 minutes brew...

Great Video. I came across that bottling yeast online at Northern Brewer a few weeks ago and picked some up. I have always worried about what yeast I will have left in suspension after a 3 or 4 week secondary. I especially worried about Kveik just as described in the video. Brew this weekend...

I had the same problem with Voss. Seemed to take forever to carb in the house. The second time I used it, it was in a wheat extract beer. After minimal carb and 2-3 weeks inside, I packed it in a box (to protect from light) and sat 2 six packs outside where we had 80-85 degree weather. Great...

Thanks for that advice. I have not used them before and did minimal reading up on those, hence the question. The grain bill is very similar to a Sierra Nevada pale ale clone I did and the trub on that was minimal using WLP001. I bottle. I should be able to pop the airlock bung and drop right...

Thanks! I'll give that a try. I do have the 2 oz cans and will give the dry hop a go. I have a BigMouth bubbler that I can easily drop my hop bag into.

In my recent Yakima HopBox I received a few cans of Lupomax hops, specifically Citra, Ekuanot and Sabro. These have AA% of 18-19. So I'm thinking of doing a pale ale to try these out and using the online recipe calculator I get this: 11 lbs 2-row 10 oz Crystal 40 60 minute boil 1oz of Citra...

Brew shop made it sound like they were completely interchageable, and I get it they are both Chino and interchangeable. Is there any benefit from one to the other?. So the question, are they really the exact same when it comes use and expected results in fermentation? I understand genetically...

I admit I like dry yeast because it is easy. I really like liquid yeast and I think I get better results overall when using it. Maybe it is just perception on my part. Recently at the local brew shop they were out of WLP001 and I knew I had US-05 at home. Guy behind the counter said, "It's...

Thanks for the comments. I'm not inclined to follow the hop additions as in the recipe, especially with higher AA hops. I use Magnum a lot to bitter and let the flavor and aroma additions come in late. Anyone played with Zappa yet?

Came across a comment about their posting the Pale Ale recipe a few years back. Decided to take a look and since I had the hops, I bought the grains and will be brewing this next weekend. For those that have not see it, the grain bill and hops are simple: 92% 2-row 8% Crystal 60 all total...

I can't believe how well this turned out! So, on day 5 I created a "test" bottle. I primed it with 1 tst of table sugar and filled a 12 oz bottle like I would normally. Sat it on the shelf for 5 days, 2 of which were 80 degree days and chilled it today, Day 10. Lots of carbonation, lots of...

Thanks! I didn't realize a higher temp needed more pressure. Most of the bottled batches I have sit at room temp and get chilled 6-12 at a time. Usually they are empty in 4-6 weeks.

I have decided to move into the kegging world. Here's my limitations so I'm asking what's the best route to take. I live in a condo so I have no room for an extra anything. I do have a small office/dorm fridge that will hold a 2.5 gallon keg if it is not over 17" with hoses attached. This is...

One think I failed to mention are the hops. I subscribe to the Yakama Hops hopbox. Every 3 months I get another box of 8 different hops, 2 oz each. So last year I ended up with one box of Australian and New Zealand hops. Another was all German. In late 2020 I got the 2020 US harvest bunch...

Thanks for the reply and links. I read a lot on pale ale and how to vary it from a blonde ale to an IPA by tweaking malts and OG producing multiple types of beers. I like that idea, but I'm still struggling on the base pale ale. I found a simple, and looks idiot proof, all grain recipe that...

First time I made this I used a different hops and it came out not so good. Looking back at my notes there was something way off because measurements and OG did not calculate out right. I don't recall the hops used. Second time it tasted funny, almost burnt, but then after about 6 weeks in...

Dude, your son is a prophet. I'm making this in a month or two. 2 row, crystal, bitter with Magnum and then Zappa. ok... fine... fur sure, fur sure?