Recent content by mikegrau

I've played around with maple syrup quite a bit. You can either put it in at flameout (or with 5 minutes left), or in the primary at the tail end of fermentation. Some might question the sanitation of that, but my thinking is that, if the product is packaged correctly it should be...

Downtown Akron has a surprisingly good selection at various establishments for a city of our size. (I won't mention 69 Taps because I've never been there, but the above description fits with what I've heard.) Here's my survey of the Downtown beer scene... Lockview (mentioned above) has a...

If you're looking at the whole beer and not just extract, hopping rates would be affected too by varying efficiency. I brewed an APA recently where I missed my efficiency by 10% (still can't figure out how?!?) and my beer was considerably hoppier than I was anticipating (not that it's a bad...

Biscuit, Victory and Special B are all very distinctive malts, and neither are very complimentary of each other (well, Victory and Biscuit might play well together, but the Special B is very much an odd ball of the bunch). I would probably only try to brew a dubbel, porter or stout with it...

Very interesting. I don't know anything about it, but I wonder if it would keep foaming down during the boil too. That's namely why I use Fermcap-S.

I'm considering a lemon ginger wheat beer for my next batch, but a little uncertain in my recipe formulation. Here's what I'm contemplating (scaled down to a 5 gallon batch)... 6# Pilsner Malt (MFB or Weyerman) 3# Wheat Malt (Weyerman) 1# Vienna 1oz Cluster (8.7%a) @ 60mins 1oz chopped...

Thanks rexbanner. Is there any prevailing opinion whether Roselare should be pitched on top of S. Cerevisea, or racked then pitched? (Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere...I'm new here and still learning my way around.)

I'm in mid-fermentation of a 1.070 Dubbel using Wyeast 1388. It's a 15 gallon batch in three 6.5 gallon carboys. I'm interested in pitching some bugs into one of the carboys, but wondering if this is necessarily a good idea. A couple of things I'm considering... Is it too late to be...