Recent content by ARock_DK

Hi everyone, My question is in two parts I guess. i am a homebrewer in Denmark, and I would like to make a cream ale for summer (my brother in the US raves about them). My problem is American malt is not available here, especially something like six row. Is there a substitute or something I...

Hi I have had my kegerator for about two months now. I love everything about except that I am having some off flavors from the beer that sits in the inner lines. I have a full size fridge with taps through the door type setup. Two perlick taps with about a meter (three feet or so) of beer...

Yeah I heated the water in my electric boiler up to 75 C (no hot water in my brewhouse). Will PBW work better then oxi? I think one of my friends has some...not so common in Denmark.

Hi I just got some used corny kegs from a local brewery here. I was told they had been cleaned before being put in storage, so they should be good to go. Well surprise surprise I opened them and they were disgusting. I broke them all down and started cleaning today. The worst of it is that...

Sorry the app is going crazy on my phone and I am out and about. Yeah I have not built my stir plate yet. That's my next project. Stir plates are insanely expensive in Denmark and it had taken me a bit if time to track down the prices needed for my own. Yeah I star San everything I touch so...

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Whew! Thanks guys that us a load off my mind. Yeah I only let it warm like 20 minutes or so while I made the starter. That must be the problem. Thanks for the help Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I am making my first few batches with liquid yeast so I am not 100% sure if this is normal. I got a vial of WLP001 California ale. I made a starter and when I went to pour the vial in nothing but the suspension liquid came out and all the yeast was a big gloppy solid mass. Had to pour some...

I just got done with an internship in Pécs. Perhaps we may have seen each other at Művész Presszó!

I tried my first bottled yeast harvest last week. Got some bottles of Bell's Two Hearted Ale (Insanely hard to get here in Europe), pitched the dregs of my only two bottles into a starter. Took a really long time for anything to build up, but I finally got a nice little layer. Cold crashed it in...

Oh where in Denmark was he. The weather has been rather good lately (amazingly). Yeah I built this recipe from one I saw here on the site and also from the fact I actually have those malts on hand. Good advice on the crystal I think I will get rid of it. Should I add some sort of sugar to make...

I want to brew my first saison and I was looking for some advice/constructive views on the little recipe I have cooked up. I am trying to go for an unconventional, light hoppy easy drinking saison for the maybe three days of sunshine we get in Denmark. Here is my recipe (if the numbers look...

Thanks, doesn't sound too like it would be too bad for an imperial IPA. I have read there really is no substitute for simcoe?

I have a recipe for an Imperial IPA that calls for quite a bit of simcoe. I don't have a LHBS where I live in Denmark so I kind of have to make do with what I can order online. Can't find simcoe but for some reason the webshop has citra. Would that be a decent substitute? Is it a good hop for an...

I also have trouble acquiring most hop varieties in pellet form. Just not as widely used here maybe? Any changes I should make if i use whole leaf hops? Thanks for the advice on the grain.