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From personal experience, I can tell you that some cats are attracted to plasticized packaging - they want to chew on it. Don't know why. Hey, the worst thing that happens is you brew another batch. This one might turn out fine, no reason not to wait and see. Edit: I read too fast - you...

The CHAOS homebrew club (in Chicago) is holding a Maibock (Helles Bock) competition for members. To help prepare for that competition, we did a guided tasting of the style, via zoom, and recorded it. Jump to the 10:30 minute mark for the program to begin. We are fortunate to have a nearby...

I vacillate between the two. Just did a Helles Bock (Maibock) and we did a double decoction on that one. Am doing a Pilsner tomorrow and will probably do a decoction but haven't decided for certain. LOL

Howdy AP and welcome to HBT! No where near NOLA, unfortuantely LOL

I'm like @IslandLizard , I use a one gallon pitcher for my liquid measurements

Could be the same cause for both the hazy and sour taste - a wild yeast innoculation.

Because you need a business account to order from them directly, a friend who is owner/brewer at a commercial brewery ordered a 1L version for us yesterday. I brew at a shared brewhouse and at least five of us use clarity ferm regularly - we'll cover the cost of this in a couple of a months...

Thanks for sharing that, @palmtrees !

Now that's a good idea. I'm going to go see if I can do the same (buy the 1 liter bottle, I mean)

Decoction if done poorly can impact attenuation, if you prematurely denature the enzymes that are working to cut the fermentables into shorter strands. In other words, you end up with a less fermentable wort. This can happen if you end up boiling a lot of the liquid, rather than the malt. I...

It will take it out of style if there is an oat flavor, but rolled oats could be an interesting substitution. I agree with @mabrungard that a key to the style (and the biggest challenge for most homebrew versions that I've had at competitions) is to get at least a medium full mouthfeel in such...

I use a muslin bag hanging from a homemade hop spider for most of my beers needing more than an ounce of hops, for the same reason. It may impact hop utilization some, but you build recipes upon recipes, if the last IPA wasn't quite bitter enough, for the next iteration you add more bittering...

Hi NB. I am not quite so technical in my keg carbonation - I tend to need to carb things up quickly to serve at an event or party and am lucky to get close to what I'm aiming for LOL. That being said, I always aim for the high carbonation in any Belgian I brew. To me, that is one of the...

Hi Mickey, thanks for sharing that. I moved your thread to the Beer Blogs & Articles subforum, per our forum rules: In other words, you could post the pdf's you have on your website to HBT and also include a link to your site in the All-Grain brewing subforum. But if you only link to your...

For the International Pale Lager style, I think single infusion with batch sparge is just fine. I brewed a similar style, the International Amber Lager last year that way and it won a gold medal. For the Czech Pils style, a decoction makes a difference - this is a difficult style to get to, in...

Hi OomVlam, welcome to HBT and to the forum! Why did you decide to use wine yeast, was it based on availability where you are? Speaking of which, where in the world are you?

Any homebrew clubs in your neck-of-the-woods?

What he said ^^^^^ Or cut off a piece of plastic racking cane, put it through a bung, and then attach the tubing to it.

You certainly can hook it up to beer engine or hand pump, but there is a cool factor in setting your cask out on its little stand at a party and then pounding the tap in with a mallet and letting everyone come up and serve themselves with the gravity fed tap. It feels authentic and old school...