Recent content by Marcorpheus

I want to bottle my saison that has been on a secondary fermentation with Brett for the past 8 months. My plan is to use a packet of dehydrated champagne yeast (Lavlin ex-1118 saccharomyces cerevisiae). This is my first time using wine yeast to carbonate so any advice would be much appreciated...

I made a 1liter starter of Brett brux that has been sitting for 9 days now. I used DME like you would for any starter. I don't have a stir plate so I've just been swirling it whenever I can. It hasn't shown hardly any activity but I noticed today that the smell has become funkier and more...

Thanks for all the useful advice. I've been ordering the grains already crushed from northern brewer and my mash tun has the braided hose instead of a false bottom. Would either of those be contributing significantly to mash efficiency issues? Usually I put all the grains in the mash tun at...

I'm interested in brewing big imperial IPAs and imperial stouts with my 10 gallon water cooler mash tun and 8 gallon brew pot. The problem is I only get about 60% mash efficiency at best when I load up the mash tun with grains. Should I adjust recipes to be partial extract to get the ABV? Any...