Brewing With Total Confidence
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Further, acetaldehyde is produced as an intermedite compound during fermentation, but is almost always fully converted to alcohol by the yeast....
Are you dry hopping at or near room temperature, or closer to serving temperature? Personally, I have noticed more grassy flavors coming out of...
I never understood where they got .9 gal as the dead space number. I did the same thing as @thunderwagn -- used water. I hooked up all the...
For what it's worth, the equipment profile that I posted in this thread was the result of about 25 brew days, across a multitude of styles. Some...
Typo on my part, meant to say FG and not OG. Mash temperature absolutely does affect ferment ability and as such, the FG will be lower when the...
I typically add 5-10% of the grain bill as rice hulls, depending on expected OG or percentage of flaked grains. I start at 5%, and as either go...
I have noticed this as well. Seems like it used to affect OG, but no longer. Makes estimating your ABV, dry vs sweet, etc, a more difficult.
My last couple of brew days have involved using some sugar fermentables, and I haven't been able to dial in why my numbers are slightly off....
I was recently reading this paper that analyses sub-boiling hop utilization....
Butter flavor sounds like diacetyl. How big was your batch and how much yeast (and how old?) did you pitch?
It has been interesting to see the direction that hazy IPAs have taken in the PNW. Whereas I keep seeing and having NEIPAs from the East Coast...
Brewed a Doppelbock yesterday for my local homebrew club's new barrel project. OG of 1.081 and 34/70 yeast.
SOLVED. Changing my target from Fermenter to Kettle fixed my problems. Adjust the ending kettle volume to get my desired fermenter volume after...
Yeah, I still have to adjust my recipes, but I feel more confident in the reported numbers now.
Ah, this sounds like a much easier hack than what I was going to try -- essentially, zero out the kettle dead space in my equipment profile and...
I am always surprised at the speed in which things that are even just mildly damp start smelling of mildew up here. Give it more than a little...
Agreed, I think it works well for this style. I specifically used L05 Cable Car from Imperial Yeast. As for the hop aroma, it didn't smell like...
I did one recently with Strisselspalt hops, California Common yeast and an OG of 1.068. It turned out quite well, but still is conditioning and...
Brewed a 1 gallon SMOSH yeaterday -- like a SMaSH, but I use a Simple Malt + Oats and a Single Hop. It is my go to recipe for trying new hops or...
No, that is the right spot. That and when you are editing the recipe. Those numbers, at least for that recipe look like what is expected. I am...
