Recent content by bpm07

Just brewed this beer last Sunday and there's plenty of bubbling going on in the fermentation chamber! One question: This is only my second partial mash and I'm not yet skilled at getting the temps absolutely right. Much of the 75 minute mash was spent at temps in the 152-154 range, rather...

I use brauundrauchshop for pretty much everything. They deliver straight to my door, usually in a couple days. There's also SIOS but they are usually at least 50% more expensive and their selection doesn't seem as varied, so I've never ordered from them. Might be good though, for all I know...

I'm getting ready to try my hand at the partial mash technique (all extract until now) and I'm having some difficulties reconciling the suggested recipe in this thread with what Beersmith is telling me. This is what I've had to put into Beersmith to get the OG shown by the OP: Mash at...

Again thanks for the different ideas! I only have 1 fermenting bucket and hence no yeast cakes I could pitch this on. My LHBS doesn't carry WLP so I picked up a Wyeast 1056 smack pack and plan to make a 3L starter as recommended. Having never made one before, I wonder if a 3L starter is just...

Thanks, CSI and mbobhat! So it seems that bottling now is out of the question because the bottles might explode, and the recommendation is to pitch more yeast. What do you mean turbo-charged re-pitch... Is it just...

I brewed this bad boy about a month ago (7th batch ever :D). Tonight was supposed to be bottling night but the final gravity is quite high, about 1.046. Granted, OG was very high (1.117) so maybe it's not going to go down any further... Also worrisome is that the 8th day gravity was about 1.048...

I'm a novice brewer (4 extract batches of experience) and thinking of getting a propane burner since I'm tired of staring at my poor stove for 4-5 hours while it brings 2-3 gallons to a boil (it's a very weak stove). All the parameters are in EU versions b/c that's where I live. I have a...

I am making a pumpkin ale this weekend (sort of in the style of Thurnderstruck). Here in the wilderness (Switzerland), however, pumpkin puree is not sold in the stores so I am going with a few whole pumpkins. I figure all the roasting necessary is that to be able to puree these pumpkins...

Haha... good name suggestions. It's now fermenting happily and no strange smells (I think). I was thinking "Tubside Down Porter" :D

Third batch is a robust porter (first being a pale ale and second an imperial IPA and both big successes). Trying to relax, not sweat it, and have a homebrew (or two), but this batch involved a funny-ish mistake... Put my pot with 2 gallons of wort in the bathtub which was filling up with...

Thanks for the reply and information. One more beginners question as I get ready to brew this tomorrow afternoon: Do you pitch more than one packet of yeast here given the high original gravity or will one pack do just fine?

I'm giving this a go but living here in central Europe the hop choices are somewhat limited. Also, I plugged the original hops into beersmith and the IBU was way low, like 35 ish (UNLESS I set it to a 5 gallon boil). I can only boil about 3 gallons so I find myself going crazy on the hops just...

Thanks everyone for the helpful responses!

Hi everyone. I live in Switzerland and am currently preparing for my first ever batch of home brewed beer. I can obtain most of the ingredients here in CH but am having trouble getting my hands on unhopped malt extract. It seems there are a few UK websites that sell this so my question is...