Scenario: Brewed first Lager, Primary 4 days @50 degrees. Racked to Secondary and Lagered @35-38 degrees, didn't get around to trying to bottle it until now.... over 3 months later.
Questions: do I need to add fresh yeast? If so does it have to be the same strain? Can I revive some of the...
I actually had this same problem recently with an imperial Stout. Only I left out a whole ounce of bittering hops during my 60 min hop addition. I didn't realize until I was about to pitch and I saw the unopened pack of EKG lying on the counter. I did something similar only added some DME as...
I blanked during my hop additions for my Imperial Stout and left a whole ounce of EK Goldings out!:drunk: According to beersmith my IBUs will be only 34.7 when they need to be above fifty...my wort is cooling as I type and I am wondering if boiling the hops on the stove with a little dme would...
Was there a lot of cold break? If so that could lead to chill haze but I have always poured everything into the primary and tried to be careful when racking to bottling bucket or secondary. My beers have all been very clear which i attribute to whirlfloc/irish moss, a longer time in the primary...
Definitely not trying to keep me down or control me. (Also been there, done that, got the divorce and found a much better model :rockin: ) its mainly budgetary. Where the little disposable income should go. What's fair to everybody. As for my "testicles" and the be a man comments, I hope that...
Haha true.. but like beaksnbeer said.. i need to keep them. I have to at least try to get her on the board before I just tell her I'm doing this...We have three boys.. precious little if any extra money ever gets spent on ourselves. She is relatively supportive of my hobby, though she rolls her...
This is just for fun... but who knows. Maybe we can come up with some winners and we all can make the leap to all-grain without having to sleep in the garage with our new setup!
The 2 gallon test recipe was:
Maris Otter: 1lb
Melanoidin: 1lb
Black patent: .5lb
Flaked oats: .5lb
Amber DME: 1llb
BlackStrap Molasses: .5
Dark brown sugar: .5
Willamette 1oz @ 60min
EK Goldings 1oz@ 30min
This was a leftovers experiment. I also have some chocolate malt to substitute?? I guess...
Thanks. Definitely want something drinkable... I made a delicious oatmeal stout recently based loosely on Yooper's Recipe and I had some leftover grains I was going to make a 2 gallon batch with. I then used the scale tool on beersmith to convert it to a 5 galoon to see what you guys thought...