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I made a PM version of this, with a tweak on the hops sonce I couldn't find Simcoe. My (not ready for publication) house pale is bittered with German Nobles and flavor/ aroma with Chinook, but I like Amarillo OK too. I brewed 08-01-09, getting down to the bottom of the keg, my near miss came...

90 minute boil and give those solids some time to settle. I have a stout with plenty of molasses in it been bottled about two months and solids still dropping. It works, yeast eat parts of it and make beer. You can work with it, just do it. The 90minute boil is mostly for the byproducts of...

I like this beer a lot. On the one hand Sam Smith is my favorite brewery in England that I know of so far. On the other hand I am rarely in the mood for Brett and I have never before bought a second bottle or pint of any beer aged in oak. Oaked beer has never worked for me, before now. I...

Exactly. It would take a cloumn still of some kind with a carefully controlled temp gradient to get 100% of the methanol to the head at the top of the column, with lower temps lower in the column to recondense the water and ethanol that evaporate with the methanol. The final beer would have a...

In the lower 48 you should be able to buy used 5 gallon soda kegs that hold pressure for under $40 each. You are going to need a CO2 regulator, you will have to buy one. Before you buy a system, you need to figure out about getting CO2 into a CO2 tank. Generally the local to you place...

I buy 2row and Marris Otter in 10# bags now. I am really hoping for a 2 roller grinder for Christmas so I can only crush the grains I intend to use today. I have one fridge for all my food, my beer and my brewing ingredients, but I got two Cornies in there with about three pounds of hops...

I have three batches on which to comment. My G1/G2 was 4 gallons of apple juice with 32 ozs *ME, Wyeast 3056. I was using a 3 gallon bottling bucket with a 2 quart reserve. I had 2 qts of primed belgian trippel in there, poured Apple jack in the bucket and bottled it as "G1". It is still...

I have been playing with BrandonO's recipe. It is oneofthe ones with 6 million responses probably on page one in this section. In fact, I'll go bump it to the top mow with my latest observations.

For instantaneous sanitation of mechanically clean (no visible dirt) non-porous surfaces in the Operating Room we use, among other things, a solution of 10% bleach to 90% water by volume. (about half a cup in 3.5cups H2O) At 10%, contact time is right now, instant. Then rinse. At lower...

I only fool with the ones that are leaking. The ones that hold pressure fine, I keep all the parts together so they don't get mixed in with parts from other kegs. M2c.

What he said.

Nice going Matt. Bummer shipping is so high, I would love to try one of your brews here in a few months.

Your recipe sounds OK to me, and I don't generally like holiday brews. That would work OK with WY1098- London Ale, if you must, maybe breadier than you want. FWIW I soak my citrus zests in a suitable amount of white liquor (rum, vodka, Everclear, etc) for a few weeks and then strain the...

From my experience I reccomend messign about with steeping grains if you aren't doing that already. Compared to all extract, steeping even half a pound of Crystal 40L for 30 minutes took my beer to the next level. If you are steeping already you got two options. 1. Build a bigger system...

I find I am not only mroe and more critical of my own beers, but commercial stuff too. Right now I have two mediocre beers on tap, a pretty good one kegged on deck, but the only beer I will order in a (typical) bar or resturant is Guiness in bottles with the widgets. There is one place in...

Yeah, you can do that. My thought is you are going to need a pretty wide windshield on your boat to hang all those bras from, sounds like "chick beer" to me. Pics or GTFO.

After one year under ideal cellar conditions, temp controlled 65-77F, no direct UV, vertical bottle, yada yada. Appearance 2/3 Just barely carbed, but beautiful dark dark chocolate with waves and waves of chocolate malty aroma, no apparent hops. Aroma 10/12 malty,malty, malty, zero hops...

In general I bottle stuff with an OG over 1.060 and keg stuff that OGs under 1.060. Bottled stuff over 1.060 I like to leave at least three months on the shelf. My pipeline is now over 50 gallons, so I can afford to be patient. But I can only fit two kegs in my kegerator, so I have to...

Another three weeks on the yeast cake won't hurt it and might help it. Even if you leave it for three weeks while away, then leave it on dry hops for two more weeks there will be plenty of yeast left in suspension for it to carb right up. Do you really have time to brew another batch and...

I have done it, glad I did it. Having done it, I don't bother trying to make the same stuff I can get over the counter. The only reason I will make pale or crystal barley again is if I can't buy it already, because it is a pain in the neck. $3.59 per pound for the Briess line is cheap...