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Highly relevant detail: subsequent "double imperial oatmeal stout" experience suggests that while most ale yeasts ferment into the low 60s or upper 50s, WLP099 FileSystem-ChecKs off to bed when it falls below 65. Popped the last bottle in October (sorry FD) with the partner who moved, her other...

So, I'll reread, but are we talking tapping into The Bout and the Bother, or more broadly?

Thanks. Can anyone recommend a hop for pine without grapefruit?

Get BMC on board. Average person: "B/M/C is brewing with treated sewage now?!" Environmentalist: "B/M/C is brewing with treated sewage now!" Beer Lover: "B/M/C is brewing with treated sewage now!"

Anywhere from 64-68 should be fine as long as you have good temperature control. Do not, for the love of your god or analog of choice, let S-04 ferment "warm." Unless you actively enjoy driving by refineries in states that don't enforce public health regulations. Frankly, my first impulse is...

Ancient thread, but for anyone else who's following in my footsteps on warm-fermenting S-23: I've made tropical stout recipes with S-23 twice now. The first time was all S-23; I split the batch in 3, 1 fermenting on my kitchen counter in Sacramento in March (so...72-75ish ambient), one...

Okay. So if someone, hypothetically, might be working from the perspective of "hops can have flavors other than grapefruit" (*pauses for suspenseful-dramatic chord*) it probably will just muddy the waters?

So, I'm looking into adjustments to make to my brown IPA recipe. I thought about chinook, which I remember as "piney," so I googled "chinook hops flavors" and am getting results in the vein of either: or Which is correct?

Boiling your beer is going to have a deleterious effect on its flavor, aside from the legalities.

Three words: "Ick Measuring Contest." Must be hard to brew over there, since by this logic the only possible states for your beer are either frozen solid or boiling. :rolleyes:

...and just ignore the chicken-and-egg problem.

Cool story, bro. Now can you at least envision why someone with a more refined palate might feel frustrated going to restaurant after restaurant after restaurant and finding that their only food options are: 1. any of 12 dishes smothered in habaneros, 2. soggy french fries, and 3. maybe...

....what is it you're afraid will happen, with only the three supporting members?

Yeah, brewing's gonna be easier now that we're out of Summer (after Summer and Summer) and into Half-Assed Fall/Spring Kinda Thing. Also, did I read correctly that you dropped a hydrometer into a pot that had just had runoff lautered into it? I think they're constructed of relatively...

Just bottled a graf made with Wyeast 2112. Was shooting for something in the vein of "caramel apple porter." The FG hydrometer sample had some harsh flavors which I attribute to the cluster hops, and a striking tartness. I haven't encountered that flavor before, except in the second batch...