Recent content by dirtyd49

bkf and some elbow greese with a green scrubby worked....

I scorched my mash tun badly and cannot get the burn off. My friend were brewing a little buzzed one day and we pre heated the mash tun and then dropped dry crushed grain in and it caught on fire and since there has been that scorched spot. I scrubbed with pbw, shear 250 and soaked for days at a...

no off flavors I ended up adding coffee and it was nice and roasty with a nice dry coffee finish. not too bad!

i used the 1056. i agree it was soon. I brewed this first to use as a starter for a bigger batch and i needed the yeast. So you think that by warming it back up will help? I was thinking i will try that and give it a week or two in the keg at room temp and will see what happens.

I did not think it was the iodophor either. it is diacetyl for sure. my temps listed were room temps. I shook the keg and will try warming it back up. I hope there was enough yeast to do the job. do yhou think I could add more yeast?

I brewed a Sierra Nevada stout clone and let it ferment for 5 days before kegging. I hit my FG no problem . my ferment temps for that 5 days was about 62 at night to 68 during the day. I transferred to my keg. I did not have any star san so I used iodophor to clean the keg and my racking cane...

I am glad i saw this post. I was going to do the clone out of zymurgy next week and was not sure of the color. now I see that people are using some vienna I made some changes and wanted to get some feedback. I remember seeing where some one was using equal parts munich and vienna. so here is...