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Is there a deadline? This sounds like fun. Is there an explicit or implied requirement that the beer would have to be, say, good to drink? I'm guessing that the baby blue originates from the company's corporate colors and it was thinking of serving the result at a company function, but then...

Yes. It's dead. Or it could be fine. There is only one way to find out; toss it into a starter and see what happens. Chances are you've wounded it, but not killed it.

Just a thought, but if you're going for a scotch whiskey-toned beer, why not soak the oak cubes in scotch instead of bourbon?

From your measurements, your OG was 1.064. With that recipe, you'd have to hit 80% efficiency to hit that OG, which may be in your normal range. If you're at 1.030 now, you're only at 4.44% ABV, without accounting for the lactose (my copy of beersmith can't account for lactose affecting the...

My latest trick is to transfer the cooled wort to my bottling bucket, lined with a large nylon mesh bag (paint strainer bag). Rack off into your fermenter out of the spigot. Nearly all of the trub and hop particles will be left behind in the bag. Works like a charm and has made my...

It will take a few days to do its trick. Just about all the questions I've ever had about gelatin finings have been answered in this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f13/gelatin-finings-53912/

I had Red Chair at the Deschutes taphouse in Portland a couple of years ago and immediately put it on my "need to make this" list. I haven't been brewing much lately but did a 6-gallon batch based upon post #52 with a couple of minor tweaks; 12.0lb US 2-row 1.2lb Munich 1.2lb Pilsner 0.6lb...

I've always been super fastidious about straining the wort between the brew kettle and the fermenter. The funnel I bought from my LHBS had a fine mesh strainer that fit in the bottom of the funnel. I put the funnel in the top of the fermenter (glass 6.5gallon) and siphoned from the brew kettle...

Drinking a glass of this right now. This was my "dust off the brewing equipment" brew and was a bit of a last minute decision. Brewed on November 16, 3 weeks in primary, 3 weeks in the bottle. I used 4 lbs of DME and the rest a mini-mash @150, OG 1.083, FG 1.024. LHBS was out of 1056...