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Wondering this myself. I found several good ones on a trip last year to New Zealand. I tend to order them or pick up a 4-pack when I see them in the US, but they are often lack luster. I think the alcohol of a 7% to 8% beer helps out a lot with sweetness and extracting hops oils/flavors. I...

I recall a Tree House video testing beer gadgets where Nate reviewed an ultrasonic beer foamer device. A search on Amazon turns up items in the $9 to $30 USD price range. The shape of these might be better for a beer bottle and smaller to store away if the only use is for bottling. An...

What did you end up doing? There is a good chance that your beer will ferment out fine with those two packs. There is just a lot of variables with liquid yeast about how it has been handled since it was packaged. A starter is cheap insurance that you are pitching very healthy yeast.

If you have a relationship or connection with a local brewery, you might be able to get grains from them. A few times I have gotten bags at half the price I would have to pay retail. If you have a local club, you might be able to work up a bulk purchase. Also, there might be some craft...

It will depend a lot on the style. You would likely want to rebrew anything hoppy (NEIPA, IPA, Pale Ale, etc.). It might be best just to rebrew any quick turn around beer (Cream Ale, Dark Mild, etc.) Clearly you are not going to rebrew your barley wine, mixed culture sour, or any high ABV and...

It looks like a decent ratio of sugar for the recipe. Personally, when making a "standard" recipe with DME I like to swap out 10% of the DME for sugar. I find that gets me closer to an all-grain color, attenuation and body. One could argue if the Caramel Malt 10L is desired, but 1) I do find...

Yeah, we tend to chase extremes...most IBUs, highest hop hazy & saturation, and now the extreme seems to be the least amount of malt character possible. My favorite IPA recipe has 4% Crystal 15/20, and 10% Wheat with a 2-Row base (under 6 SRM). In that 6.5% range, I think a little character...

What does your brewing water look like? I have wondered how much the brewing water might impact final beer pH. I have only use Lutra a few times. A while back I did a 3 gal batch that was split with US-05, Voss, and Lutra. I measured the pH and they were all quite close (within margin of...

I am 99% sure that Cellar Science is yeast from AEB (maybe Apex as well): https://www.aeb-group.com/us/beer/biotechnology/yeasts There is a very close mapping. I would note that AEB and CS both sell a dry version of Hornindal, which I have not seen from other sources (CS only sells in 500g...

For Bru'n Water, you need to enable iterative calculations in Excel (that will get rid of those arrows on the screen and enable updates). It is under File > Options (way down in the lower left) > Formulas. These days, I find that BeerSmith is pretty good with pH calculations (it used to be off...

The recent Craft Beer and Brewing Podcast has a number of tips. Most of these guys are using a 100% Pilsner base (a few said they used 5% to 10% wheat with the Pilsner). There was no mention of any other character malts. Chico yeast was preferred in this crowd but 34/70 was mentioned as being...

I remember when Galaxy was all the rage but was going for $40/lb at the discount hop stores, so I avoided it. Then there was a obvious decline in commercial beers made with Galaxy, so I avoided it. Now I do see that Yakima Valley Hops lists Galaxy at $15/lb, which is the same as their current...

I found the book. Above is not quite right. There are a few pages on a Simplified Decoction process that could be applied to a professional brewery. That is similar to what I posted above and I was likely thinking that would be a decent process to apply to a homebrew level. At the pro level...

I have seen some notes about being too much peach. Is that what you experience? I wonder if it would work better with some hop combos. Reports seem to show Pomona beers don't have the haze level of Verdant/LAIII. I just ordered my first pack of Pomona.

I took advantage of the 15% off sale to restock a few items. I placed my order late in the day on Friday, they shipped it on Monday, and it is scheduled to be delivered via USPS tomorrow (Thursday). I find USPS to be the least reliable carrier as far as delivery dates, but I am happy with the...

Good luck on brewing! I am in Northern Virginia. It would be hard to critique the specific steps of a cleaning and sanitization routine. On the hot side (anything before chilling your wort) make sure all your equipment is clean. Treat this equipment like your dishes, and plates...clean them...

Interesting thread resurrection. Kai's site has been a wealth of info for me (https://braukaiser.com/wiki/index.php/Braukaiser.com) but he was active before I got involved with online brewing forums. Interesting to hear his voice. I could not track down my copy of "Modern Lager Beer" (a very...

Just hoping their are some winners off the KC 0 row.....THEY SCORED!!!

Two are listed at https://escarpmentlabs.com/en-us/pages/find-a-store Great Fermentations (IN): https://www.greatfermentations.com/shop/category/escarpment-labs-yeast-523 Lancaster Homebrew (PA)...did not see any Escarpment Labs entries on their website right now...

Did not see this thread until now...I will take E3. Thanks!!