Recent content by BenCL

Long time reader... I come here to find good advice, and usually there is a thread straight away and I get it. But often I search around and find the same thing repeated a few times. Sometimes on here, or sometimes off site. Often its a yeast issue for me (but thats not important, could be...

If you dont get an answer here dont fear posting in the All grain/Biab thread next. Use your knowledge here and post away.

This is the most important, and repeatedly unanswered, part here, and I would like to know the answer as well. The hardest part sometimes on a home stove is getting a full wort amount to a good rolling boil for the hops. This is bittering hops. Split it, rolling boil the hops in 2.5gal...what...

I have heaps of these, dont ask what came in them - ok, unused crystal type kitty litter - but they fit about 6litres/1.5 gallons, and would work fine. You could fit a airlock diagonally near the top and stack as many as you want for fermentation. I clean them and use them for storing grains.

There was a wattle tree out front of my house in flower, full of bees, I grabbed a bunch of the flowers and made tea with them and added it to my fermenter. It had a pelicile for about 2 days and when I went to bottle theres was one or two ants. Seems great so far.

Belgian yeast 2 Batch Size: 20.00 l Mash Ingredients Amt Name Type # %/IBU 6.00 kg Pale Malt, Traditional Ale (Joe White) (5.9 EBC) Grain 1 85.7 % 1.00 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (78.8 EBC) Grain 2 14.3 % Boil Ingredients Amt Name Type...

Maybe its the ants. Im sure its the yeast tho

Anything with too much yeast can create air in your gut, so farts which can affect poops

Its amazingly fruity by the way. Heaps of nelson sauvin during and dry and a bunch of wattle flowers around 7 days and a bit of citra . a few ants from the flowers

So im drinking a bottle of my belgium bitter only after 4 days of bottle conditioning...is that ok to drink? Spewed out of the bottle eveywhere

Hydrometers are incorrect at temps above or below 15C/60F usually. They are calibrated for a correct reading at that temp and if you measure otherwise there are calculations you need to do to correct for the temp difference. The average hydrometer isnt exactly accurate with its gradients...

Podcasts, mainly We Hate Movies, Grognard Files, A Duck in a Tree. Or metal on vinyl.

Get a glass container. Save up. Saving for a glass fermentation container should hopefully take a lot less time than the fermentation of a good sour. And learn to wait for what you want along the way. Its important with sours

Drank it. So I was transferring to bottles from the fermenter and there was just over a pint left. Put it in a jar, cooled it and drank it later that afternoon. Im still alive. Tasted like un-carbonated beer, maybe a little yeasty. Just wanted to share this as I googled doing such a thing...

There are a couple on Project Gutenberg as well A Treatise on the Brewing of Beer by E. Hughes - 1796 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35597 The London and Country Brewer - 1736 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8900 A Study Of American Beers and Ales by James Garfield Riley and L. M. Tolman...