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    Picnic brew

    Got asked if I would consider brewing up a summer company beer and hoping you guys could throw some ideas out there to help me out. Im trying to please the general beer drinker, so looking to avoid anything too hoppy, dark, etc... Also, thinking of making a few gallons of cider quick for...
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    Using not quite ripe berries for a sour

    Its blackberry season in MI and Im staining my fingers picking a lot of fresh ripe blackberries. I had a hankering to use them in a beer, maybe a blackberry black ipa, but then thought maybe i would freeze a few lbs and put them in a sour brew (grand cru inspired recipe sitting on some roselare...
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    Dry hopping, keg hopping and gelatin

    I'm doing a galaxy DIPA and have just dropped in my second round of dry hops a few days ago. I would like to cold crash it a day or two before kegging which I am debating on trying my first keg hop. I realize a cloudy DIPA isnt a bad thing so Im not sure I need to fine with gelatin besides maybe...
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    Headspace

    I have a sour going in a 15 gallon demi-john with about 2 gallons of headspace. I hooked it up to a 6 foot long blow off tube that ends in a pitcher of starsan. Being that it is still in the primary, undisturbed since fermentation started, would there be any worry that some of that headspace is...
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    Pasteurizing in a sanke sixth barrel

    I've done a bit of researching and read through many different techniques to pasteurize cider but have yet to see anyone talk of trying this technique. Seems most threads immediately get deflected to an alternative method. My planned process: Ferment cider dry (3 gallons), cold crash and...
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    DIY False Bottom from a stainless steel plate

    I was bouncing around the idea of using a stainless steel dinner plate as a false bottom for my 10 gallon cooler mash tun. Basic premise is drill a large amount of small holes all over the plate, which is domed already and then drill a center hole for the out-flow connection. Anyone have any...
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    Aging unfiltered brews

    As I generally understand with the commercial yeasts available and used now that you don't have to worry about autolysis within an usual fermentation period (less than 6 months or so). And moving out of the primary to secondary will move a brew off the yeast cake. So my question is if you bottle...
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