Recent content by Aksarben

A few years back we bought a Soda Stream and wife loves the carbonated water and I used to make regular Coca-Cola using a Coca-Cola 5 gal Bag-in-a-Box to add syrup to the glass before adding in the carbonated water. I have since bought 3 paint ball tanks 2 ea 24oz and 1 ea 20 oz and and...

Perhaps this might be useful. This link is for Brewer's Friend website and at the top of the menus you see can see "New Beer Recipe" I have registered there and have saved many recipes and created them there. What is useful to this thread is when you get past the malt ingredients, your grain...

I use a pint canning jar... Mason, Ball, Kerr, etc. They have nice flat lids and a ring that will seal well while you shake the hell out of it to aerate and mix. Every so often, give it another shake. Does a great job and just loosen the ring a bit so it don't build up too much pressure. I...

Wasn't sure if you all get shipments from Amazon.com down under. Here in Michigan I can order it and in 2 days it is here, even if ordered on a Saturday night! Our locals HBS all have StanSan and is a fantastic products, albeit a bit bubbly stuff. Just a few miles from me is Bells General...

Have you heard of a new band, "The Megabytes"? They're bummed they haven't gotten one Gig yet.

I'm not addicted to brake fluid. I can stop whenever I want.

Texan walks into a put in Ireland and shouts" I hear you call yourselves drinkers! I've got $1000 for anyone who can down 20 pints of Guinness back to back!" No one in the bar says anything and one guy gets up and leaves. So the Texan orders up a beer. A short time later the man that left...

I had a dream last night I was part of my car's muffler system. I woke up totally exhausted.

Two radios with broken antenna were married. Their wedding was great, but the reception was lousy.

A dung beetle walks into a bar and asks "Is this stool taken?"

In my home state of Michigan Founders brews a beer every year called Mossaic Promise which is brewed with Mossaic hops and Golden Promise malt. Sells extremely well. I would imagine a 50/50 blend would work very well. Either have enough DP that you could add in other adjuvants in the mash to...

Also do check the yeast. Some are much better at getting a lower FG than others.

The AHA was a typo and I could not get back in there and edit it. Unless I'm missing something about being able to edit your own posts. It was always supposed to be HSA, and not AHA (perhaps I was thinking of American Home Brewer or such. I agree, that if we can help out control to make...

Also, here is Dr. Charlie Bamforth in Beersmith podcast #74 and he does mention Hot Side Oxidation, and that enzyme Lipoxygenase, created actually during malting process, During fermentation yeast do a wonderful job of not only creating alcohol and CO2, but also mopping up some of those off...

http://brulosophy.com/2014/11/18/is-hot-side-aeration-fact-or-fiction-exbeeriment-results/ for those interested. I stand on the fact that thousands of home made beers won countless awards and contests without nary any thought of Hot Side Aeration better known as AHA. As for me, I'll not...