Search results

I recently listened to Chris Colby making up a recipe on Basic Brewing Radio. He posited that chocolate, roast barley and black patent all play well with each other for a nice melange. So, thought I would try it out...and here ya go. 89% MO 5% biscuit 2% Bairds chocolate 2% roasted barley 1.5%...

sweet baby Jesus, where do you come up with this kind of pedigree? :ban:

I would plug in Notty to your calculator and go with that as the FG. My understanding of mixed yeast is that it tends to finish out at whatever yeastie is the strongest attenuator. Here is a white labs presentation on a guide to blending yeast strains. While WL has never made a definitive...

@Witherby Do you have part number for the Propane Low Pressure Regulator that you used? I slapped together one of these but stuck on finding the right propane regulator. What I have has a wierd reverse thread and can't figure out how to connect it to the CO2 regulator. I tried a couple on Amazon...

West Yorkshire and Yorkshire Square have nothing in common except the word "Yorkshire" in the title. This is an ancient BYO article, so to be forgiven for giving recommendations appropriate to that time. West Yorkshire is really a nice yeast for a bitter. The WLP equivalent is Essex Ale. Both...

What is your mash temp? You want more mouth feel, mash high around 158F

These are all English yeasties, so I guess from that POV they are the "same." Not sure if this is the latest, but Suregork did the genetic sequencing and there is this wonderful eye chart: Suregork Loves Beer | Beer Reviews, Homebrew, Rambling peace

1469 W Yorkshire and WLP037 are not even the same family of yeast. WLP. Both have Yorkshire in the name, but that is the only commonality. WLP022 Essex ale seems to be the 1469 equivalent strain. I really like both of these. Haven't done a side by side yeast off yet but will. W Yorkie and...

Wow, glad you liked the WLP037. That yeast is waaaaaay beyond me. I've whined about it elsewhere. First vault strain I ever got. Did at least half a dozen tries. Never could get something consistent. POF+ and could end up two months later in the bottle being saison-ish, and not in a good way.

I did a yeast off ages ago with WLP017 and S-04. The brewclub consensus is that the WLP017 + S-04 was far superior to either individually. WLP017 is called the Whitbread II strain, and S-04 is supposedly one of the other whitbread multi-strain. So, you might try this combination.

What's your recipe please?

Whitbread is a multi strain include S-04 and WLP017. These two combined make a superior tasting beer, at least according to the triangle tasting and the local brew crew test vs individually. It is maddingly complex. A SMASH yeast off can provide one result, but try comparing those yeasties in...

Patrick Ryan has a sourdough brie Christmas bread: . Of course, any kind of loaf works. My Christmas version was a whole wheat no knead that ended up a little on the wet side. But I digress, the beauty is this bread is basically a fondue but i think much better. Prep your loaf, push in a...

I usually build up starters. As I wrote above, I've run several yeast offs by the local brew crew with triangle tests. Imperial versions have always come out on top. To be clear, Imperial are ex Wyeast employees, and their catalogue is more a yeast "greatest hits" than a broad offering.

My bad, have not updated since January, so.... Kolsch 5 gallons Bitter 5 gallons Czech Lager 5 gallons Bitter 5.5 gallons Chevalier 6 gallons American wheat 5 gallons 1970 Boddingtons 5 gallons Erdinger Dark 5 gallons Stinging Nettle Ale 3.5 gallons Danish Thor Lagerol 5 gallons 2.5% wheat 5...

@warx In my blind taste tests, Imperial Pub always outperformed 002. In general, I find the Imperial versions to be "better" somehow. That said, I have reconditioned yeast from a bottle of Fullers that Northern Brewer kindly brought to the pacific northwest. I'm behind in my brewing pipeline...

Ridgeway Brewing Oxfordshire bottle condidtioned yeast - worth trying to reculture? So, I was in the World Market getting stocking stuffers today, and they had several Ridgeway Brewing beers including bad elf and santa's butt. Bad Elf winter ale is only 4.5% octane and was on the bottom shelf...

I rewatched the FermZilla Conical Fermenter - 7.1 gal. / 27 L video. And it is 100% within my corporate "healthy lifestyle" left over budget for the year. I think this it :) Will have a few more beers and order

More Beer is 20% off for the Anvil, so think I'm going to pull the trigger on that tonight.

Appreciate all the replies. Last night I pitched a split batch into the fast ferment 3.5 gallon plastic conical. Resolved: I'm going to get a stainless steel conical. The fast ferment is a great concept, but it's become leaky, the plastic doesn't quite thread perfectly, and I'm not sure I'll be...