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Posted: by BlackHaddock (3 hours ago)

After doing some searching around here I kept finding people saying there was Munich LME sold at Northern Brewer. The closest thing I can find there is an amber extract with Munich in it.



Is this what everyone is talking about or is there some discontinued LME that I'm not able to find anywhere?

I'm looking at making an Oktoberfest extract beer.

Posted: by baos (19 hours ago)

Trying to upload pictures from Photobucket, lets see if I gots it right.
My Wine Cellar (Walk in closet)

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I recently (about...1 1/2 months ago?) put this recipe together from KenLenard's Memory Lapse Pale Ale with a few more hop additions and was so damn excited only to get a crappy beer. Can someone maybe point out where I went wrong? Here's what I did:

6 lbs Pale LME
1 lb Crystal 60L
3/4 Flaked Wheat
.5 oz Mt Hood 5.3% whole hops (60)
.5 oz Cascade 6% whole hops (60)
.5 oz Cascade 6% whole hops (20)
.5 oz Cascade 6% whole hops (5)
Pitched smack pack of 1056 at 72F

I completely blew off taking a OG which I'm still pissed off about, but fermentation was fine. I left it in the primary for 33 days. The fermentation temperature bumped up and down a little bit, but being it was the beginning of fall it never went over 70... I checked the FG at 33 days and it was at 1.013 so I bottled with 3/4 cup corn sugar and aged for about 2 weeks.

The beer came out tasting ridiculously sweet (kinda extract sweet) with an almost tangy sourness at the end. I'm led to think that the slight sourness at the back is an infection? It's very subtle though, and I'm generally very good about sanitation. The sweetness on the other hand, I don't know about. I have 31 IBUs to what was supposed to be a 1.045 beer. There's what seems to be no hint of hops either. I'm just baffled. The reason I did this beer is that it looked (and was proven by others to be) simply delicious... any advise?

Hey, just doughed in on that Murphy's Style Stout AG recipe from last month's BYO. Anyone else try this one out? Only change is that I am using 1084 saved from my last stout instead of the nottingham or 1028 they recommend. BREW ON!

Mashing a Belgian Golden Strong right now

I guess I had it wrong. But, I am brewing an Oatmeal Stout tomorrow and want to be certain. I had thought I understood that only the 'instant' oatmeal was pre-gelantized...

So, I do NOT need to do an adjunct mash with the oats (boil them), I CAN add these oats directly to the mash???

Thanks

Here's my dilemma...Dry hopped with pellets in secondary...didn't strain properly when racking into keg...should I be patient & assume the floating hop residue will be gone after a few pints, or should I rack into another keg?
Thanks in advance
CB

So, the last 3 or 4 beers I have put in my primary have blown krausen up and out of the bubbler. I have a 6 gallon carboy, fill it just over 5 gallons and have used either 1506 or 1028 without a starter. Just a single smack pack after violently shaking the carboy to oxygenate. Does this just mean I'm pitching at too high of a temperature? I always make sure the beer is down to at least 72F. I'm worried about this because it makes a huge sticky mess that I'm sure attracts everything I don't want in the beer and it's even clogged the bubbler a few times so I've had to sanitize another one and do a quick swap, which I hate seeing the fermenter open at that point even if just for the quick bubbler swap.. these aren't big beers either. I've have a pumpkin ale pale ale and two porters with OGs at or below 1.060.

any suggestions?

Posted: by dwarvenspirits (20 hours ago)

Two years into this and I'm thinking about kegging. Bunch of questions:

Are those basic kits enough to get me off on the right foot?
How tall is a typical corny keg?
How large of CO2 tank do you need? I've got a spare beer fridge in the basement, but how many kegs/tanks will I be able to fit?
Can you setup multiple kegs to the same CO2 source?
Where do you buy your CO2?
Where do you buy your kegs?

What else should I be thinking about?

Batch Size (Gal): 5.00 Wort Size (Gal): 5.00
Total Grain (Lbs): 10.00
Anticipated OG: 1.077 Plato: 18.55
Anticipated SRM: 11.5
Anticipated IBU: 78.6
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75 %
Wort Boil Time: 60 Minutes

% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
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60.0 6.00 lbs. Briess DME- Gold America 1.046 8
20.0 2.00 lbs. Pale Malt(2-row) America 1.036 2
5.0 0.50 lbs. Crystal 80L 1.033 80
5.0 0.50 lbs. Wheat Malt America 1.038 2
10.0 1.00 lbs. Munich Malt(2-row) America 1.035 6

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.


Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.75 oz. Zeus Whole 17.00 25.7 30 min.
0.75 oz. Zeus Whole 17.00 20.3 25 min.
0.50 oz. Zeus Whole 17.00 11.3 20 min.
0.50 oz. Zeus Whole 17.00 9.0 15 min.
0.50 oz. Zeus Whole 17.00 6.7 10 min.
0.50 oz. Zeus Whole 17.00 5.6 5 min.
1.00 oz. Zeus Whole 17.00 0.0 0 min.
1.50 oz. Zeus Whole 17.00 0.0 Dry Hop


please tell me what you would adjust

I'm brewing a 1.094 beer. According to Jamil's calculator I need 4.6L of starter wort. My starter vessel is a 1 Gallon Jug. I obviously can't fit 4.6L of wort in a 1 gallon jug. The largest starters I do in the jug are about 3Q. I've got over a week until brewday so I have time to do a couple steps.

How should I step this thing up to get the 333 billion cells I need?

a) Start with a really small (1 pint) starter and then step up to 3+Q
b 1Q, step up to 3Q
c) 2Q, step up to 3Q
d) 3Q, then another 3Q
e) Other, please explain

I don't have a stirplate. I will be using yeast nutrient, pure O2 at the start and swirling everytime I walk by.

Everyone please vote!

OK I screwed up I can also make 11/28

I am planning on making an All-Grain American Amber Ale. Would it be to off bases to use Rye Malt in it?
Here is my proposed grain bill for a 7.5 gallon batch:
OG 1.059
Alcohol 5.81%

14# 2-row
1.25# Crystal Malt 40l
.5# Crystal Malt 80l
4oz Pale Chocolate
.5# American Victory
.5# Rye Malt

As you can see my recipe making skills could use some help at times

Bad move, filled my EHLT last night and I could tell the thermometer was reading too cold ~58df so I recalibrated it - should have recalibrated at the temps I use - I knew better too. Just mashed in a dark alt at 145df and the EHERMS is taking forever to bring it up to 151df. Alt lite?

I am sorry I am sure this topic has been discussed many times before. I brewed a reciped that calls for 2oz of Simcoe and 1 oz Amarillo dry hop. In my freezer I have pellets and whole hops of both varieties. Which would you use?

Hello guys,

Like always I got tons of questions. I want to try and brew a small batch of all grain for the fun of it (1.75 gallons of wort) but I am having a little bit of difficulty with the amount of water need.

I am planning to use my 3 gallon Brew Pot & my bottle bucket as my mash tun.

Beer Smith tells me that for a 1.75 gallon batch using a 3 gallon brew pot & a single infusion, medium body (154*F) 2 step procedure, I need:

1) A boil volume of -1.26gal (I had the "Set Boil Volume Base on Equipment Box" checked)
2) Mash In w/ 4.22qt (1.06 gallons) of water at 167.8*F
3) Mash Out w/ 2.36qt (0.56 gallons) of water at 197.5*F

I must be doing something wrong with my input numbers because 4.22qt +2.36qt = 1.62 gallons and there is no way I will end up with a final volume of 1.75gal from a 1.62gal of water for the mash process.

My 3 gal brew pot boil off rate per hour for a gallon of water was 0.6 gallons. So if I assume grains when mashing take 0.12gal per # of grain (3.5# x 0.12gal = 0.42gal/#), then, 0.42gal + 0.6gal + 1.75 Final Vol = 2.77gal Total Volume needed.

I am so confuse! I will Relax... and I will have a homebrew as soon as I get home... If I make it sane

Now that I'm kegging, I was wondering what to do with my bottling bucket. I thought about useing it for a primary fermenter but the hole is centered only 1and 1/2 inches from the bottom of the bucket. Is this far enough away from the trub? Does anyone do this?
Thanks for any ideas.
jml

Hi all,
OK, my last step is to set up a mash tun large enough to handle 40+ lbs of grain, etc.
What is the max amount of grain you have been able to push into your 15 gallon sanke keg MTs? I was thinking of using my old HLT as a MT - just not sure if it will be large enough? I ordered another 25 pot - but I want to brew this week end - what do you think?

Posted: by JHalden (15 hours ago)

I really like the profile (or lack of profile?) that I get from White Labs 01. The problem is that I cannot get it locally and have to order it. The last time I ordered it I also got some US-05 dry yeast because a couple of the local brewers have used it and like it. I have a few recipes that call for White Labs 01 but I don't have any at the moment. How will I like the profile of US-05 compared to that of White Labs 01? Also, I remember people saying that 1056 and White Labs 01 are the same strain, but I notice a difference in the two. I haven't used dry yeast in 8 years, I would guess. And... can I reuse it without ill-effects? Thanks.

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