Search results

So I didn’t see the krausen like I normally would in my starter but when I swirled it before pitching the foam formed ridiculously and almost spewed out so I know it was active

Making a pre pro lager. Planned for the OG to be 1.051. Ended up around 1.057. Made a 2L starter with WLP840 and pitched into the 5.5 gallon batch at 50F. Been 1.5 days with no activity or decrease in gravity. This one is also being fermented under pressure with 10psi. I’ve ramped the temp up...

Hey yall, I have a method I’m going to use for transferring my soon to be finished Golden Strong Ale to bottles for conditioning. I’m currently cold crashing and once done, I plan on mixing the beer into a keg with the sugar priming solution through a closed transfer process, then dispense the...

If I attach my Spike PRV to the blowoff can on my Unitank and push pressure up the cane through the top will that risk pushing back anything that may have entered the can during fermentation potentially causing infection?

That’s what I’ve done in the past with my Spike Flex fermenter. There is a place on the top of the lid to add pressure through the top, however, the Brewtech Unitank does not have a port on top unless it’s sold separately online and I just haven’t gotten it yet.

I attached the co2 line from my tank to the carbstone port on my SS Brewtech Unitank to start carbing the beer, but a few days in I noticed beer had back flowed into my co2 line. When I went to pressure transfer, that beer in the co2 line pushed back into my Unitank. What is the cause of this...

lol! What’s the reasoning behind the no chilli in Pilsner thought? I’m prob gonna go more for a pre-pro lager recipe and incorporate chilis. Thoughts?

That’s awesome! I’ve read about 50/50 when it comes to either boiling or using a tincture. And just a few who have put in secondary for a few days before kegging

Sweet! How much vodka and peppers would be needed for a 5 gallon batch?

Sierra Blanca Brewery

Had a really good hatch chilli lager in New Mexico a couple years back at a local brewery.

For those who have done it. What is y’all’s preferred method to adding chilli peppers to beer. I have a couple pounds of hatch chilli peppers I plan to add to a pilsner/ lager this Sunday on my brewday.

I thought the same thing. WLP820 doesn’t really ferment fast thought haha. Either way I love/ hate situations like this. One because I will be more cautious next time, and two because I find it fascinating to see the final outcome and if I survived the risk haha. I will keep yall updated!

While cooling my wort, I reached pitching temp around 51F. When taking moving some tubing around, I accidentally dropped an unsanitized large hand clamp used for holding hoses on the edge of the kettle into the cool wort and was unable to retrieve. I quickly transferred the wort to the fermenter...

Sounds like a good idea, and yup, 5.3 gallon with my Clawhammer system.

Wanted to get y’all’s opinion on this yeast starter I scaled for my Märzen recipe. With an estimated 1.056 OG, my recipe calls for 415.4 Billion cells needed. I calculated that with a 1.6 L starter using 2 packs of WLP820, I will estimate approximately 425 billion cells. Is adding two packs of...

😂😂😂

Here’s a new one for y’all! Had the lawn crew at the house doing some driveway addition work today and they happened to wrap up the work at the same time I was chilling my batch. I opened the garage to a storm of dust from the limestone they were cutting because they were using a blower to get...

Will my loose dry hop additions sink to the bottom of fermenter while cold crashing?

Question. Do you have to dry hop with the same hop varieties you use in the boil or can you add in some additional varieties during dry hopping that blend well with the hops added during boil. For example, we used Lemon Drop, African Queen and Mosaic in our Hazy recipe during boil additions. How...