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I've brewed this a handful of times now, and always say "this is the best beer I've ever brewed" every time I drink it. Aroma pours out of the glass. You can smell this as soon as you open the tap. Orange citrus nose, with a stark white head. Palette is on the citrusy, orange juice side, with a...

I can offer some information based on the reverse. I use a side by side, but control the freezer and use it as a kegerator. When I have the freezer set at 35F, the fridge is often around 55-58F. This is sitting in my basement at an ambient temp of around 60F. I use the fridge side for...

What about a 2 month secondary at 57F?

I bought three of the originals and drank one over Christmas. Hard to say at this point, but I thought it was pretty close. It's rich, thick, sweet, chocolate, caramel, vanilla. All those good things. I can't say I can call out the pecans, but the oak and bourbon are there. If anything, the oak...

No updates yet. I've sampled it twice, and both times it's been spectacular. It's been sitting on oak for almost two months now per the directions. I've been storing it in the basement where it's dark and about 59F. I will say the last sample I had was pretty well oak-flavored. I think this will...

I brewed my first lager a few weeks ago, and I hit 93% efficiency on a system that generally produces 83%. I think I understand why, but I wanted to bring this to a larger audience. Recipe was: 85% Pilsner Malt 14% Munich Malt 1% Melanoiden Malt Rice Hulls OG: 1.047 As I began running off, and...

My starting water profile is pretty decent. I've only ever needed to add Kosher Salt (non-iodized salt), Gypsum and Lactic Acid to reach a broad number of profiles, so I don't have any experience with chalk, lime etc. I add my Gypsum and Salt directly to the HLT and mash water while they're...

I fly sparge with my HERMS system using my HLT water as well. My coil placement requires the HLT to be nearly full, so I always have leftover water in the HLT after I'm done sparging. You should make your mineral/acid additions based on the volume of water in the HLT, regardless of how much you...

That's been done! http://brulosophy.com/2016/02/01/the-hop-stand-hot-vs-chilled-wort-exbeeriment-results/

:ban: Looks great! Mine's been in a secondary on oak and bourbon for almost a month. Giving it until mid-March to bottle. How's it compare now with more carbonation and another couple months under its belt?

In!

Why not just put a small ceramic heater in the fridge controlled by the STC? WalMart sells them for $10, and it'd be more than enough to raise the fridge temp to fermentation temp. Yes, you'd be fighting the normal operation of the fridge, but if you're in a pinch, there's no reason that...

Just for future searchers... Brew went well. Did the 2hr mash and 90 minute boil. I don't know why I did the 2hr mash, other than it's what the recipe said to do. My numbers were right on, but I'd boosted the recipe by 1.5lbs of Golden Promise to help me hit my numbers when planning for loss...

I've used it, and it was fine. Time savings didn't seem all that great, and the cost is so much higher. My new method for starters is to basically drop the DME, water, stir bar and 2 drops of Fermcap into my flask, put the porous stopper in the top of the flask, then boil. Super easy, no...

Great link. Thank you! I'll let you know how it goes.:mug:

Great job!! You've got one fan for each of your right-half fermentation spaces, correct? They both pull in cold kegerator air when needed to control the temps in each? I've built something similar, but using the lower CFM fan (AC Infinity from Amazon as well, the 45CFM one) and without...

Yes, thank you. I will remain flexible as you said and just do a little extra sparging if needed, followed by a little more boiling. I'm going to shoot for 7.5gal pre-boil, lose 1.875gal in the 90min boil, which should leave me with a post boil of 5.625gal. I then lose .25gal to the bottom...

Thanks! The recipe calculates okay if I use my normal efficiency of 83% (what I've measured on previous beers up to 1.071). Maybe I just won't worry about it and see what happens. Not a big deal either way, I've just never brewed a beer this big.

Hey There, Getting ready to make w00t stout from the kit that NB sells. http://www.northernbrewer.com/wil-wheaton-s-w00tstout-all-grain-recipe-kit When I run this through Beersmith I come up a little low on target gravity for my setup versus NB's (1.097 vs 1.106). What would you recommend I...

Hi Guys, First time posting, and first time treating water! Making an IPA on Saturday and am planning to treat my city water with additions according to Bru'N Water. It's well water, and I received a water report from the department of health that had lab measurements of almost every ion...