In an extract brewing world the speciality grains are steeped and provide colors/flavours without adding fermentable sugars. I can't see how 10-12oz of chocolate malt or roasted barley can provide the same color as a lb of it.
So I have been brewing on a brewzilla the past 5-6 years and have been getting 68% brewhouse efficiency. I recently bought a grainfather G40 and am getting 80+% efficiency, which is obviously a good thing.
My problem now is converting my 5 gallon recipes like I enjoy in brewfather. In a 5 gal...
Reviving an old thread, but what about me? Having problems connecting any of the 3 faucet adapters for my cold in on my grainfather chiller. Here is my pfister faucet. If you can link parts if you know something that would work that would be great!
Omega yeast is hard to come by locally, but I am going to get my hands on some Lutra along with the propper seltzer nutrient to make a seltzer. Due to the cost of shipping and availability I was wondering if it is possible to wash and reuse Lutra yeast to continue to make seltzers off of a...
I live in Canada and I contacted everyone and no one carries or is going to carry Omegas new Bananza yeast. Companies in the US will not ship it to me either. I am hoping someone on this forum can ship me some in a cold packet and I will cover the cost of shipping and yeast. I realize it's not...
I have never brewed a sour beer, looking to try this with a bag of mixed berries (blackberry, blueberry, raspberry).
My lhbs sell the wildbrew sour pitch for $24.99, but also sell the lallemand wildbrew philly sour for $7.99. Would the philly sour work in this method as well?
I made some changes. This was my last batch that turned out very well:
10.5lb maris otter
1.25lb munich ii
10oz chocolate
10oz carafa special ii
8oz flaked barley
8oz crystal 75
Nugget @60mins bitter to 35IBU
I used Dennys Fav yeast this batch
4oz cacao nibs secondary
4oz brewers best pb at...
Anyone use this yeast? Experiences/opinions? I have used omega hothead yeast and really enjoyed it. This yeast sounds right up my ally as I don't have great fermentation control