Recent content by Bloom_198d

So I just got a fermentation chamber (temp controlled with hot and cool)..... My beers have jumped in quality and predictability, and don't think I could ever go back. I had a IPA go grain to glass in 12 days that was perfect. One thing I have been doing is keeping the fermentation...

Thought I would weigh in with my experiences, because this is something I looked into before exploring cheap yeasts for neutral flavoured beers (as far as yeast is concerned). First thing is that it will depend on what style of beer you are brewing. I have made many dark beer like a porter or...

Only used 34/70, but it is a phenomenal yeast. Clean and crisp and much more predictable than its liquid equivalent. Makes amazing common beers as well.

Ya makes sense, boiling isnt sterilizing. You need steam and high pressure for that. Might work if you freeze it though.

Did a starter instead. Feels like too much of an infection risk.

I will prob end up doing a starter or small batch anyways, so dont rip into me too hard if this is stupid. I plan on making a 5gal batch of a 5% lager in the next 7 to 10 days. Usually for this I would make a starter, but im a bit busy right now and I always feel a 5 or 6l starter is just a...

I use 1 packet of us-04 in 5 gallon batches all the time. Some of these batches are higher gravity as well. Your fermentation might not be as clean as using 2 packets (although I think it is negligible)... but its not gunna stop at a fg of 1.042. I have had way bigger problems with liquid yeast...

A more anal brewer might frown on this sort of thinking... but whats the abv of the beer? I usually give the beer 1 week fermenting per 2.5% abv as a general rule, though I have turned some 7%IPAs around in 2 weeks before when like you I had a deadline I wanted to reach. It also kind of depends...

I really liked the idea of brewing something a bit tamer for "sessions" on weekends, and came across the Centennial blonde recipe. Originally I planned on simply brewing the recipe... but decided to change it up a bit to suit the ingredients I had on hand as well as my personal taste. 3gal...

I am still learning and experimenting with lager brews, so it could very well be me screwing up... but I can confidently say it is not as easy to work with as 2124. The yeast doesn't seem to flocculate out as well as I would have hoped, and really needs a long time to mature. I would recommend...

Tried Brewing with Wyeast 2124. Wow. Budvar yeast is garbage in comparison, I don't think id ever go back to it.

Hello, I am a massive Toronto Maple Leafs Fan, and I had this idea the other night to brew a blue beer for their opening game to enjoy with friends. Realistically the only way to get a blue beer would be to brew a very light cream ale (yellow+blue= green=bad). I want to try to brew this beer...

I bought a sack of CMC superior pilsner due to its incredibly low price. I have made a Saison, BoPils and a Dortmunder export from the grain with mixed results. The saison turned out great with a real clean flavour. A style like this is dominated by the yeast so the delicate flavour from the...

So a month later, or 3 months of total lagering time... And this beer has turned it around, and come out very good. Still not as hoppy as I expected, and the grain isn't as good as the German malt (obviously) but nonetheless good and dramatically better than macro lagers. Really just needed an...

So I brewed Jamils Bopils (with slightly more hops and domestic malt) and the final product isn't really what I was picturing. This was my first lager. I used 90% RO water to 10% Calgary (very hard) water, and did a double decoction with a full 90min boil. The beer fermented with Budvar yeast...