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, BYO.com, Egg Nog Milk Stout, Homebrewing, Stuck fermentation, Washing Yeast Leave a comment
Yeast Starter
So I tried our IPA (a very loose Bell’s Two Hearted Clone) and it’s just OK. It’s not fully carbonated yet so I’m sure that will improve it’s flavor a bit, but the real issue is that it’s real thin, way too bitter (even for me), and there’s a similar, very subtle flavor in there [...]
Posted in Beer, Instructional, Recipes, Review Also tagged Bell's Two Hearted, Cascade, Centenniel, Chicago, English Bitter, Freshops.com, Half Acre Daisy Cutter, IPA, White Labs Yeast, wYeast Leave a comment