Trying out an Oatmeal Stout. 5.80 kg / 4.37 € 3.60 kg The Swaen - Swaen Ale 1.00 € / kg 3.60 € 38 3.5 62.1% 1 kg Flaked Oats 33 2.2 17.2% 0.60 kg The Swaen - PlatinumSwaen Brown Porter 0.00 € / kg 0.00 € 35 150.45 10.3% 0.30 kg Bestmalz - BEST Chocolate 2.55 € / kg 0.77 € 34.5...

I have yet to try whirlpooling, so far all i've done was 0 minute additions and dry hopping.

Hm, I've been leaving them while cooling, and I guess they contribute to "some" aroma and AA?

I'm going to hijack this thread, and ask a similar question; -If you're using the hop spider, do you remove it (hops included) at 0 before the cooling, or do you leave it in (regardless if you have any hops additions)

So I cracked the bottle, after 14 days of carbonization. The foam was there, co2 was present, lacing was ok There were no off-smells, just the caramel-y aroma of the cara dark munich and roasted barley. The 32 IBU was still present, and there was still some hints of the Northern Brewers...

Unpluging your recirculation arm on a single vessel system, without turning off the pump 1st. Hot wort to the ceiling!

The sanitary procedures while bottling were all taken care of. There was little to no chance of "oxidation" (it's an Alt, not a neipa) 0$ in caps, I'm a prominent user of those flip-top bottles, while changing the gaskets every 6 months on them. I understand your concern, but I also don't...

Exactly. I figured if it waited for 5 months it can wait 14 days more.

Took a tasting sample, it wasn't bad. Just... kinda unimpressive, it felt like it was "watered down". But the sample was uncarbed. So I just attached the bottling wand to the spigot of the fermentor, bottled one, added 2 carb drops (3g of sugar), and I'll try it when it carbs up in a week or two.

Well if a "minimal amount" is needed, I'm thinking if my carrying the fermenter from point A to B to bottle it, wont disturb the yeast cake, and put some yeast in suspension then?

I don't think the reproductive cycle of the stainless steel fermenters work that way. I ain't a rocket surgeon tho, so what do I know.

It was hiding behind the empty cardboard boxes of the baby stroller and the baby car seat. I'm honestly surprised there wasn't two of them.

Hm, so bottling with carbon. pills is out of the question then? It's better to dissolve the sugar in the water, chill it, add yeast and then add to the bottling bucket?

So, while cleaning out my cellar, I found my missing fermentor, filled with, (according to my note), an Altbier made back in september 2022, made of pilsner, munich dark, cara munich dark and roasted barley malt, with 70g Northern Brewer hops. OG was supposed to be 1.049. When i peeked inside...

M54 for a pils? Huh, I've only ever used it for a California Common, but i've read a comment that M54 is just repackaged US05?

Same here, I'm trying to decide whether to make a Cream ale (a style that I haven't tried before), or an American amber but using Mandarina Bavaria for hops, and switching US05 for Lallemand Nottingham.

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Brewing Summary By Recipe: Recipe Group Brew Date Batch Code Batch Size Schwarzbier Brulosophy Default 2022-01-20 SB001 22 (L) Kölsch Default 2022-02-13 KL001 19 (L) Swaen Altbier (Pivovarium) Default 2022-02-19 SAP001 20 (L) Čeh v2 Default 2022-03-06 EH001 18 (L) SHORT & SHODDY | INTERNATIONAL...

I'll be trying a recipe based on https://chat.openai.com/chat The AI appears pretty smart, it can generate some recipes for you, and you can list your inventory and based on it, can generate a recipe: For example, It generated this lager recipe for me which i'll be trying this weekend; In...

If it fails, you can try a 100% buckwheat beer. We've got one over here, made by a doctor turned brewer as he was diagnosed with Coeliacs. It's made with 100% buckwheat mash, and (I think Styrian Golding) for those 25 IBU's. the rest of the bitterness comes naturally from buckwheat which is by...