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if your using a strong ale yeast you could see a drop from 1.083 to 1.072 in 12 hours, it just depends on how warm or cold you were storing it at. the fact that you used a starter also makes me think that it would have had an og of 1.083. i have seen a 10 point drop in gravity in around 12...

man do i love winter..... at least as far as beer making goes since i have a dedicated "beer room" i can crank down the heat in it and lager perfectly. and my first lager beer is now 3 weeks aged and man does it taste goooooood.:mug: i highly recomend to you newbies out there, if its...

ummmmm, arent coors and budweiser both LAGERS?!?!?!?! i mean i may be having a really stupid moment but coors and bud are both american light lagers right?

the only thing that brings knowledge in brewing is the number of batches under your belt. my recomendation is to go to 2 2.5 gallon batches instead of 1 5 gallon. each beer has its own personality. and it will always be a little different. i recomend brewsmith, brewsmith is your friend...

i let my beer tell me when to brew, the day that i decide to bottle my beer, i also brew my new batch. i sanitize everything at once, and since i do a partial mash, i have an hour of conversion and an hour of boil to bottle my beer. it works out great, once my beer is ready to drink, i am...

apparently somebody was doing it right http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/761/20131 they have a supposedly good wasabi pale ale, my guess is that the hops is affecting the flavor of the wasabi in the hightly hopped ipa. i think im going to just drop a 1/4 cup of wasabi paste in a 2.5 gallon...

ive been thinking of doing a 5 grain high gravity ale. ive already got a recipe, i think ill try that with the wasabi. thanks for the help

i must say, i love my wasabi. im thinking just mix up a little dme with some water till i get the right starting gravity then slowly add wasabi paste till i get the right burn. sound like a good start?

that is definitely brass, I know my metals, but then again bronze may also cause interactions with the beer, but since bronze is corosion resistant it should be ok.

ok, i havent read alot of beer posts, but as i sit here munching wasabi peas and drinking my most recent brew, a pilsner lager:mug:, i wonder why not try a wasabi beer. i know that people have made chilli peper beer. do you think wasabi will work and if so, how much to use?

i have learned from experience, NEVER underestimate how much pressure yeast can generate in a small perioud of time. thats why i use an airlock on my yeast starter bottle, the percolating tells me when its ready.

you could always use it for a bottling bucket if nothing else.

by the looks of it, it is made of glass, if so NICE SCORE :-). as for the airlock. im sure there is a way to drill a hole in the stopper to put in a blowoff tube or regular airlock. or if you dont have the stopper top you could take a tightknit cloth and rubber band it over the top. it...

thats why i always keep a couple of the liquid filled freeze mugs in the freezer, they can chill a beer in about 5 minutes once you pour it.

three reasons. using ground coriander will make it very difficult to remove before you bottle it. second, by grinding the coriander seed you expose a lot more surface area, this can cause too much flavor to be imparted to the beer. third, by cracking the seeds yourself you get the maximum...

i agree with slomo, with a little tweak. If you want to let our beer ferment for a longer period of time i recomend racking it to a secondary as fermentation starts to slow. The yeast cake on the bottom of the bucket is mostly dead yeast. I have left a beer on the yeast cake too long and it...

if your doing an all extract batch the krausen will generally not last long becuase there isnt alot of bits of grain and the like to hang on the top. Your not out of fermentation by a long shot. let it go another 5 days, check your SG check it again on day 7 if it doesnt move go ahead and...

ahhh i remember the taste of my first batch of wort, youll never look at commercial beer that same again.

theres nothing wrong with that beer. thats pretty much how it should look.

thanks for the starting points, i forgot, that my lhbs is in the same town as a super hippie mecha that should have it. they have even had hops the last time i went there.