Recent content by nanofreak

What temp is your controller set to. Go put the carboy in a sink of warm water for a while after swirling the yeast to suspend them, that'll wake em up. Works for me. Then raise the temp a few on the freezer.

But that would raise my gravity

I am mashing just over 4 pounds of grain. Will my 10 gallon mash tun be too big for this? It is the big round yellow water cooler with false bottom.

Colder is ok, it will just take longer to carb and condition. Just don't go so cold the yeast go to sleep.

Really off topic, so sorry to thread jack, but Rick and Peggy sold the store. She will still work there for some time, and the new owner is a nice guy.

So I brewed an all grain Wee Heavy. It came in at 1.104. Well honestly it isn't ALL grain. I thought my OG was going to be off, so I added in 1 pound of light DME, so I ended up over of where I wanted to be. This is a 3 gallon batch, and it goes a little something like this. 8# Crisp Pale...

Lighter tasting as opposed to overly matly, not as in bud light coors light, etc. Also as in not heavy mouth feel or in the belly. The pilsen should keep it really light.

No fruit.

I am trying to throw something together that the girl friend will drink. I am not looking to crak out the mash tun, and am looking to use a few things I have on hand. I thought of using the below: 3# Pilsen DME 3# Wheat DME 4 oz Carapils Hops: .75 cascade 60 .5 cascade 20...

So I brewed this. I brewed a half batch and did so on my stove. My calculations were off, and I ended up with more wort than I planned, so my gravity was a little low. (a gallon too much, used the brew 365 sparging calc, but my gas stove doesnt run as hot as an outside burner, so evap was way...

Tell us about your sparging process. Water temps, amount, type of sparge, etc.

I always boil my sugar, place in bottling bucket and rack on top of it.never had an issue.

I have always pitched it before my drive, even when the drive was significantly longer than that. Never had a bad batch.

If you added them the wrong way around, and the gravity points of each was different, the only difference in the beer will be in hop utilization. You will still have beer, just a bit different of a hop profile.

As it aged just a little it became one of the best beers I ever brewed.