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While I am not a huge cream ale fan, i tasted a key lime pie cream ale that was light and refreshing. Lime zest, maybe mint leaf and a little lactose to a basic cream ale recipe may be good. While 8% is not within style for a gose, but the margarita gose (search this site, i forget exactly...

Ok... before I brewed beer, I thought I was a stout guy... now that I am alot more in tune to what is "out there" my preferences have changed. Full disclosure I have been brewing a little more than 1 year. I purchased Bourbon County Stout all grain clone and brewed it... new brewer, new...

Playing with my 3 year old / going out with wife. Guns, reloading ammo, shooting said guns. I'd like to get back into RC helicopters.

I have done a sour with OYL 605 and it was wicked fast. The L-Plantarum caps are a little slow to start but seem to still work well.

Mine didn't drop the pH until I bumped temp to about 90 degrees, then I got a small pellicle overnight and pH was where I wanted it next morning. I have done 3 kettle sours and never got any action until at least day 3

I have used a small fan (like what you put on your night stand) and just had it blow on the fermentor. No towel, water, etc and it helped a few degrees. You can also do the swamp cooler routing if you want as well.

You are sour mashing right? US05 worked well for me, but it's a slow starter in sour beers. Also TYB Voss Kveik has worked well for me in sours as it has a nice citrus / fruit flavor and ferments clean up to 100° which is perfect for summer and no temp control. I just used that yeast for a...

I have pulled and recapped two batches with excellent success. An 8.5% IPA with US05 and a 14% imperial stout with champagne yeast. I got a 5mL syringe and used about 2-3mL of rehydrated yeast slurry each bottle and recapped. They all carbed fine after that.

I made this mistake. I started with the QD fittings (not CAM lock) and realized that all of them were 3/8 ID... but it just doesn't seem reasonable to spend the 150 or more dollars to upgrade to the 5/8 version for full flow. I'm sure it would make for stronger whirlpools though if I had full...

I had a similar complaint with my new Sovereign fermentor... I went the weldless route but am happy with the result. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/sovereign-stainless-fermentor.641995/#post-8306003

Is it oxidation or could you have some nasties lurking in your tap? May be worth disassembling the tap to ensure it's clean

I just did a kettle sour from a mid-2016 dated bottle and they worked fine. I did a lacto starter a week before brew day then pitched it once ready to kettle sour. I didn't notice activity for first 48 hours (5 caps), but I bumped temperature to low 90's and gave an extra 5 caps as precaution...

Well... take your pump to home depot and test fit brass fittings. Its probably male 3/4 NTP on inlet and female 1/2 NPT on outlet...using brass is fine, but you can also test fit at Home Depot then buy same size in stainless online if you wish. On the outlet you will want a 1/2" ball valve to...

Well during the boil, even if a fly manages to kamakaze into the boiling wort it won't matter. Once boil is over I place my lid onto the kettle until chilled to desired temp. Then I transfer to fermentor which also has lid on and I put transfer hose through airlock bung... if you are really...

Does anyone ferment their kombucha in a 3 gallon SSBrewtech brew bucket? Yes it's more expensive, but it also can be used for beer when splitting batches. Also I wanted to get a 2.5 gallon keg, with the brew bucket I can brew a full 2.5g kegs worth. Thoughts?

My wife bought me a starter kit (ingredients / scoby only) that has enough to brew a 5 gallon batch. Obviously as a beer brewer I already have carboys and all that stuff. Ideally I would prefer to keg my kombucha so I am not worried about bottling. A few questions. 1.) "Starter tea", can...

I don't know the longevity of a sour, but I did brew that beer as a extract kit from NB! It was fantastic! I think I got down to around 3.4 and it was refreshingly tart... I felt the beer could use a little more character but I never got a chance to brew it with changes (like fruit in...

Another option would be to just bring the wort to a boil for a minute or two to kill the lacto... then you can keep cold until next weekend. I'm sure cold crashing would keep lacto activity down, but you may still get some additional souring.

Yes you can easily cut the plug and wire in whatever you want...if you wanted you could wire in a AC ceiling fan speed controller and likely control flow via AC input instead of valve on output.

This is another option... https://www.anvilbrewing.com/product-p/ab-500062-00.htm