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bsad11- thanks for sharing, being meticulous and precise is only going to result in better beer now and over time. I am the same way, I obsess over every detail of the recipe and process, always looking for ways to improve, and there is plenty of room for that! I will be bottling in the next few...

Wrapping it in a blanket will have the opposite effect until the yeast start active fermentation, and the temp in the bucket is above ambient. I just started a batch a few days ago at this temperature with WLP001, it is now vigorously venting through a blowoff. Found this thread by searching...

Thanks for the suggestions, brewed fairly similar to the recipe I listed above. Sierra listed that they used lactose in their beer, and that they added cold brewed coffee, but that could mean they brewed the coffee in their cold fermenters. We shall see how it comes out! Also, my ambient...

For me it is all about the following: Lone Pint: Yellow Rose Buffalo Bayou: More Cowbell Southern Star: Buried Hatchet Karbach: Hopadillo Other Texas beers I like Real Ale: 4-squared Cedar Creek: Dankosaurus Community: Mosaic IPA Deep Ellum: IPA So yea I guess I like IPAs...

First stout will be a Sierra Nevada Coffee Stout Clone attempt this Thursday. Can't wait, can't wait to try last month's robust porter as well.

Okay so this is our first clone attempt and it was a little intimidating until we realized the end result will be beer that tastes good. What we came up with is based on the grain, hops, and gravity/abv info from S.N.. This is our first stout as well, but we were too impatient to brew a...

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The beer was tasted on bottling day, two weeks after fermentation began. The temperature issue is obviously a big one. My ambient temp was probably sufficient, but I thought 16 deg. C was too cold. I used a aquarium heater to try and raise it up a few degrees. The thermostat on the aquarium...

Hello HBTC, I was looking for some tips on tasting young beer. I bottled a Baltic Porter kit yesterday and sampled the F.G. to see what I could taste. I have read that this particular style is one for long-term aging, but I am not sure what flavors are associated with a beer being to young...

Just finishing a ferment with an aquarium heater to control temp and my only advice is to double check that the temp you set the thermometer to is the temperature it ramps up to in real life. My first ferment was way to hot because I did not check beforehand with a reliable thermometer. Set at...

I recently brewed a kit from my local home brew shop which suggested I use Kolsch yeast. I am a beginner at this so I just ran with something I heard on one of the podcasts; start the ferment cool, then raise the temp slowly to help attenuation. This is the first time I have attempted to temp...

Okay so one week later and my fermentation has really slowed down, only occasional bubbles for the last two days. The gravity has fallen to 1.024 (6 Plato) versus the 1.016 (4 Plato) in the recipe. I guess there is no harm in pushing bottling day off for a bit longer but I was just wondering if...

Well the oxygenation effects of using a stir-bar and stir-plate only work because the starter is open to air allowing for the mixing in of new air into the starter solution. In the fermentation vessel there would be no such access to additional oxygen after the airlock is in place so I would not...

I was pitching my starter into my wort the other day and heard the distinctive plunk of the stir-bar falling into my fermenter. This roused an idea I had a while back to use the stir-plate during fermentation. I did not attempt this due to not really understanding if it would help or hurt. I...

Hey thanks a lot for the reply, I did start the boil with about 5.5-6 gal because I added the extract then washed the bucket to get all the leftover out. Big cold front rolling through right now so I am letting the ambient drop down to help fight all the heat that the yeast are producing. Have...

Hello HBT Community, I just finished my first brew day in quite a while and with a very different set-up and procedure than I had in the past. I am cautiously optimistic about the batch but have some concerns I would like to throw out that others have probably encountered and addressed. I...

Hello to everyone on HBT! I am a graduate student in Houston, TX hoping to start brewing again soon. I have brewed five times with the first being an unmitigated disaster, then next three being solid, and the last one being somewhat disappointing. I use a 7-gallon plastic bucket as a primary...