For the first time in several brews we’re finding ourselves up on a stuck fermentation with both our Brown Ale and our Egg Nog Milk Stout. I wasn’t terribly surprised by the Stout getting stuck, it’s a higher ABV beer than we’ve brewed before and I was curious to find out if my brute force [...]
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Fixing Crummy Attenuation in Our Beers
Posted in Beer, Instructional Also tagged attenuation, beano, Brown Ale, Egg Nog Milk Stout, Homebrewing, Stuck fermentation, Washing Yeast, yeast starter Leave a comment
Sour Mashing for Added Complexity to Homebrew
I put our Porter on gas Thursday night and I’m happy to say that this is probably our most satisfying success to date. There’s plenty of chocolate, coffee and tangy burnt notes in this black beauty. Here’s the recipe we used: 9.01 lb 2-Row Brewers Malt 1.0 lb Munich Malt 1.0 lb Crystal Malt 60°L [...]
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Pumpkin Ale In a Pumpkin Fermenter
Here’s a great idea that I’m scrubbing from BYO.com, using a pumpkin as the fermenter for your pumpkin ale. I haven’t tried it yet, but this Halloween season may be the perfect time. Old Pumpculiar (Pumpkin-spiced old ale) (10 gallons, all-grain) OG = 1.059 FG = 1.013 IBU = 20 SRM = 25 ABV = [...]
Proper Amounts of Sugar for Bottle Conditioning
We’ve been struggling a bit with our bottle conditioning. The main issue is that we’re not thoroughly stirring in our corn sugar & water mixture into the beer and as a result we’re getting variation in the amount of carbonation in our beers. But we just finished our first batch of Saison and surprisingly got [...]
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