Recent content by Stephen Perry

I love being able to take my homebrew on the road so when I visit out of town family and friends, they get to try it out for themselves!

New running theory, is it possible for the pectin from the fruit to increase/effect the gravity?

Hydrometer, more specifically a triple scale hydrometer and a tilt

Hey everyone, I'm doing a wild ale with fresh wild blackberries. I made my wort, through a few pounds of wild blackberries in the wort, let any natural yeast, organisms, etc. do it's thing, ferment and sour. Had some nice lacto built up. Did open air fermentation for about 4-5 days. O.G. was...

I plan to bottle today or tomorrow, but tasting is Saturday. I may look at the puree route

Hey everyone, need some emergency help. I have a competition that I'm submitting my Hazy IPA for. It's a wort challenge so I don't have any information on water quality, but it's a base water used by the brewery. Part of what hurt me on my score last year was that it had some tannins present. I...

Count me in please! I love this system and would definitely love one!

Awesome, thanks! After everything I've now been reading, it looks like it's not just about temp, but a combination of temp and time.

I have scoured the internet and the forums. I'm trying to figure out, what is the best dry hopping temps? In my current situation, I have a hazy NEIPA going, and I'm trying to make sure I extract all of the best citrus notes, flavors, and aromas that I can. 1 site says cold crashing temps around...

I'M IN!

Does anyone know if there is such a thing on the market? I'm looking to convert what I already have into electric, so I'm looking for essentially a threaded heating element. Something I can just thread into an existing 3/4 thread I have on my keggle. My other hopes is to find one that's 1500...

Awesome, thanks so much for your help/input!

ok, so going off of that, would ramping the temp up help? or too late?

WLP677 Lactobacillus Delbrueckii

Would LOVE one of these fermenters!