I was thinking of buying a gowler and making a mini batch of beer then adding it at bottling.. any thoughts?
5 gallon batch of honey brown ale:
6lbs 2row
7oz chocolate malt
12oz honey malt
1lb honey
12oz brown malt
4oz carapils
and.. forgot to add 1lb crystal 75.
First off im very open to suggestion. secondly this will be surprise for my girlfriend's bday, so any advice is extemely appreciated.
This is the grain bill I decided on:
8lbs maris otter
1lb carapils
.75lbs honey malt
1lb corn
1lb 10l crystal
1oz citra @ 15mins
1oz amarillo @15mins
both hops...
How much flaked corn can be added to a 5gallon batch without tasting that corn flavour? I was thinking around 4oz? I am only looking for the sweetness and smoothness that is added by the corn. I do not want any corn flavour
It states online that its a wheat beer. My girlfriends bday is coming up soon and i want to surprise her with this beer. I cannot find a recipe anywhere. It states that it smells of tequila and lime. She raved about it when she visited belgian. Any help would be appreciated
Im bottling the beer. Should i transfer the beer to a tertiary carboy to guarantee the sugars have fermented without getting any more raspberry flavour or can i just add priming sugar and bottle it?
I've just added 4lb of raspberries and 1oz of citra to my 5 gallon amarillo / citra ale. How long should I allow the berries and dry hop to sit in the secondary for?
I used a hydrometer and the original grav was 1.062-1.064ish, the current grav is 1.020. I shoved those numbers into a ABV calculator online and it gave me the percentage. I will leave it there for a while longer then. I am just overly careful because I don't want to mess up my first batch...
My beer is fermenting now, It has been 7 days since it began fermenting. It has been sitting for 7 days and when I checked yesterday the ABV was around 5.6 and it tasted great. Over the last 2 the yeast began accumulating at the bottom. Here is a picture:
Beersmith said it should get to...
UPDATE: I brewed my first beer ago a week ago. Tastes great. I'll leave it in the primary for another 3 days. Its at something like 5.6 ABV(i forget the amount the calculator said) at the moment.. Still a ways to ago for the beersmiths approximate 6.8 that its supposed to have. Going to...
Yeah the water pressure in my house is good. I don't see there being an issue.
UPDATE: Stopped by lowes to pick up the pieces. This is the result:
Beats having to do this:
(picture from my first batch that I made a week ago)
I know this has probably been discussed previously but I haven't been able to find any sites that offer any way to connect a wort chiller to a faucet. I've found very good articles on connecting hoses to faucet and connect wort chillers to the tubing underneath the sink itself but none on...