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I'm making two beers

I'm doing the lager just with 2-row and hallertau as It is really just a starter beer for two helles next week or so. As for my ingredients I'm thinking along the lines of jamil's Irish ale: 11.25# English Pale (I'm using 2# supp. W/ 2-row) 6oz C40 6oz C120 6oz Roasted Barley 1.25 EKG @60...

Do here is what I have in stock: 1/2# Special B 10oz Roasted Barley 1.5# Chocolate 2# British Pale 1.5# C60° 5oz C40° 1# 10oz Carapils 1# Corn Sugar 1/2# Lactose I also have two 5G buckets of 2-row for base. I'm assuming about 35# As for hops. My 830 lager has whole leaf hallertau that I...

Decanted twice* sorry

So after a trip to the notsoLHBS I have a day to brew tomorrow. In the fridge I have one WL830 about a quart starter size of rethawed WY2007 (it's been decanter twists in a pint glass, bout a cm of yeast slury) and two packets of US-05) I have about 30# of two row and a mix of specialty grains...

Well I did a porter last winter that was around 1.058 and used that same yeast. I got around 74° F and ended up with fusels. I guess because of that I tried to play it safe. I was shooting for 60° and my chamber (being outside) never got there. I really need these Midwestern temperatures to...

Well it is a sweet stout with raspberry so I would think sweetness is expected and since it's already being tasted at 50° so how worse could it get. I put it in the house where ambient is 68-70° so we will see what happens. I really don't want to repitch.

Will do. FWIW this will be kegged so no bombing unless the produce something like 200psi and I think my reg would go first! ;) But yeah I get what you mean. I will bring it inside and see if it starts again.

I used one pack of safale us-05 and just sprinkled up on top. I don't usually rehydrated as I normally have good results with that pack. I'm gonna say I just got it cold to quick. I'm gonna put a hair dryer in the chamber and switch over to heat. It's starting to get cold. The problem is one day...

Yeah it's in a fern chamber outside in a un insulated garage. I may just bring it back in the house for a couple days to get it goin again. But if it sticks I will just leave it. As I said it taste great and it's at ~5%

SO I'm making the Chocolate raspberry cream stout. I shot for an OG of 1.06 and ended up with a 1.068. My estimated FG (us-05) was supposed to be 1.017 based on the 1.068 giving 6.8% ABV. After 10 days at 58° I'm stuck at 1.035. That leaves me at a 4.4%. Therefore should I continue to wait or go...

I'm thinking I should of FWH and I still need to let it set for a while. We will see where it goes!

S what your saying is start like a 1.5 gallon just straight pils with a similar hop sched and ferment out. Then use that as my starter. Decant carb and repitch on the cake for the 6 gallon helles? I lik that line if thought. 7-8 gallon of beer, a huge starter, and more brewing!

well its a stout so im not really worried of the haze since its pretty dark anyway. I just don't want an infection. Im thinking of adding some water and giving it a short boil then racking on top of that. do i really need to boil or is 170-180 sufficient?

So it's seems maibock or helles. So who's got a tried and true close to style recipe out there. I'm new to this style as I've only done one lager. Any help?

M looking to brew something AG in the next two weeks for this spring. I was thinking a lager. Maybe a kolsh helles or a maibock. What is everyone else brewing?

I am new at the rims thing but I do have that setup with a picnic cooler copper manifold setup. I still batch sparge. While the rest is finishing up I strike my sparge water. Dump fill and run the system again with no problems. Is there any reason I should switch to fly. It just seems a much...

I agree. I do a double batch sparge with 168° water and have no problems getting 82-86 eff and no tanin problems ever noticed. With today's grains and proceses why do so many people still fly? Is it a purist thing?

I'm thinking of trying a Christmas beer but wheat style. Maybe like a spiced dunkle? Any ideas?

Just finished this and poured the first glass, it is good but im getting a very harsh bitterness on the end. The beer does not taste smooth to me. Very malty up front and harsh hop finish. I suppose it is just green. Any thoughts?