Recent content by breez7

Finally got an email response: "Results will be posted Saturday or sooner" An entire week to post?!?! This is nuts and kinda shady....

Ya this is ridiculous! Definitely not entering this next year. 2 emails sent...nothing! If anyone hears anything please post.

Partially correct. Use an airlock on a growler therefore it is very easy to see activity.

Use it. I keep a starter constantly going and just feed it every 4-6 weeks. Like calder said though, if its kept cool they will be in better shape.

My experience with lacto cultures is you just have to wait and watch. Sometimes they take right off and other times it takes days. When you notice the starter has some activity going on I would use it. Same thing goes for the main batch. Taste everyday until its about where you want it and then...

I have been getting very different results with my refractometer depending on when the sample is taken during the brew day. My pre boil and end of boil gravities always seem to be on target with what I expect out of my system but then after I cool the wort and I take a reading the gravity can...

I was lucky enough to score some ECY02 Flanders ale yeast a couple weeks ago and plan to brew in a week or so. My question is for anyone who has had experience with ECY, should I pitch as is or make a starter? I will be using it as my primary pitch. OG 1.060 5.5 gallons Cheers

So my wife just splurged and got me a new 13 gallon French oak barrel from Midwest homebrew supply. Do I really need to do the barrelkleen thing or can I just do the water soaks to get the wood to swell before I filler up? Thinking about doing a stout then maybe an ipa before bugging it up...

Your good. I had to do that with a few kegs when i needed to chill and carb some kegs for a wedding. When i re-chilled and it tasted just the same.

looks like mold.... rack from underneath it and try and save it. If its white it could be Brett. or Lacto. post a pic

Kolsh would be good at those temps. I just made an 11% monster IPA at 57* to keep fusel alcohols down with 001 then ramped up to 70 to finish it off. Just play around with it. Seems a little too high for me to ferment a lager at those temps. I like to ferment 2 weeks at about 50 then as...

Leave it, hop flavor and bitterness will fade with age. Depending on your ABV and a few other things it should age just fine. Let it be and get another beer going. Practice makes...well... more beer.

Almost forgot, Welcome to HBT!!!

Seems like a low OG... What did the kit say it was supposed to be? Most likely it was just an inaccurate read like you said. How long has it been since brew day? I would let it ride at 70 for another week, dont rack, just wait and take a reading then. A lot of my fermentations go gang busters...

With an original gravity that high I would have let it sit on the yeast cake for atleast 3 weeks before I even took a reading, let alone transfer it. When you rack it you are taking it off all the yeast that have the potential to keep working and clarifying your beer, as well as clean up all the...