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I asked GF why the 220 Volt model is not available in the US and Canada, here is the reply: Hi Jacques, Thanks for your enquiry. We when bought out the Grainfather in the US/Canada, we were aware that all households had 110v and some had both the 110v and 220v. Our developers decided it was...

I don't know because my wife is milling the grain manually :)

Thank you Saccharomyces for starting this thread ( still alive after 10 years ). For 1 litre of wort I use 1 litre of filtered water, 100 grams DME and 1/8 tsp Fermaid K ( yeast nutrient ) . For the slants and the 20 ml propagation test tubes I use crystal clear wort ( wort that has been...

Here is the recipe I posted on my facebook page 3 years ago: A pinch of malt ( remember it is a NEIPA ) , yeast: any bread baking yeast will do (remember , it is a NEIPA ) , 500 grams of maizena to get a perfect haze. Et voila .:)

I had one last week and liked it. Of course "strong" is relative: In England anything bove 4,5 % is labeled as strong while in Belgium any beer above 10% is strong :) Anyway, I did some googling with no result. A clone recipe would be appreciated. Is it a "stock ale" ? Jacques

May i suggest : "Artisan breads every day " from Peter Reinhart. It covers refrigerated fermentation , sourdough and a chapter about pizza dough . If i have to keep only 1 book about baking that's the one.

While visiting a good friend of mine living in Curitiba ( Brasil ) we had a brewing session for brewers over 70. We brewed a dry stout and both had a good time. Itamar brewery name is " Cervejaria Flash Gordon " mine is " brasserie Montfort " .

I brewed 4 batches of begian dubble using LME. Using LME for that beer is not a problem because the recipe includes 3 specialty malts and dark candi syrup. On the other hand the tripel doesn't have a lot of specialty malts to hide behind. So far all the tripels I brewed were AG ( because i...

The cf chiller that comes with the gf is very efficient . I like it.

If the target is set to 212 and the real boil temp is 200, the real temp will never reach 212 and the boiling timer will never start. I'm at sea level and run my GF 100% in manual mode. Once I used a GF clone at 3000 feet and had to change the default value so the boil timer could start

The bottles I'm talking about are the 330 ml / 12 0z. I don't have any 750 ml bottles with caps, I use 750 ml cork bottles from Unibroue. A 750 ml bottle with metal cap looks cheap ;) Of course tripel is one of my favourite style .It is a simple no frill recipe. I like to add 0.5 kg/ 1 lb of...

I use bottles from : Molson Lowenbrau, Labatt classique ( yes I'm a very old fart :) ) , Bass Pale Ale, Rochefort, Westvleteren , Westmalle , Orval, Hoegaarden wit . I never have any trouble using a column capper and crown caps from my local hobby store in Montreal. I use the standard caps...

Who am I to tell the brewer what beer to brew and to tell the customer what beer to buy ? The problem is that a cloudy beer with US hops has nothing to do with an India Pale Ale. The brewer deceives the customer and the BJCP is reinforcing that . BJCP should call that New England ale, it would...

NEIPA is not a style, it's a niche .Is it brewed by inbev, Heineken, Kirin ? of course not.Hefeweizen is hazy because a few centuries ago there were no centrifuge so hazy beer was the norm. A beer style ( BJCP should remember that ) originated because of the location ( ice caves in Bavaria...

20years old ?? It must have been a well kept secret. As a neighbour I heard about that concoction ... last year when Mc Auslan produced it.

NEIPA , a pseudo-style invented by BJCP to satisfy some ( Vermont ? Rhode Island ? Conncticut ? ) brewer victim of the " me too" syndrom (San Francisco has its beer style, why not Burlington ) I want my own BJCP subcategory but I am too lazy to add isinglass or too cheap to buy a centrifuge.

Hanglow, Until around the year Bass was available in the Quebec government owned liquor stores. Then when Bass was acquired by "the devil" ( as a Belgian I completely dislike Abinbev-INterbrew ) it completely disapeared of the Canadian market. The way I understand, cask Bass is still brewed...

Being a homebrewer I don't like to waste my time brewing low ABV beers. 90% of my production are doppelbock, tripel , belgian dark strong, imperial stout. But Bass Pale ale is one of my favourite standard ABV beer. Bass used to be available in Montreal but now I have to brew it at home. I found...

If you are at 1000 ft/300 m the boiling temperature will be 99C/110 F. So it is normal. Could you post a picture of the boil so we can compare ?

jake77444 , I have the 110 V unit and the graincoat. The boiling stage on the 110 V unit is far from being impressive , but it is ... boiling. I don't use the app . To do a manual test ,press on the heat button and hold for 3 seconds. The manual mode doesn't take altitude into account. Jacques