Recent content by Brewer_010

Selling my urn as I bought a braumeister a while ago and havent used the urn since. Australia made. Concealed element. Great for BIAB. Selling $160 negotiable Excellent condition inside and out, see link...

Lager it properly for at least 8 weeks then try it again, sounds like you're trying it too early. A four week fermentation should have fermented it out, surely.

Little creatures puffin billy (in a growler) Nice maltiness, great colour and some hop bitterness there too. Apparently based on a bock? Its kind of getting there, compared to the geman bocks I've tried. Maybe the wind blew the smoke away, its very subtle and more of an aftertaste. Nice...

Sierra Nevada Northern Harvest - man what a beer, aroma and flavour of those hops are sensational, but nicely balanced - highly recommend getting a bottle or two. Followed up with a chilled dry martini - frikken awesome.

I generally prefer the natural carbonation in my kegs, but tend to force carb as its quicker, one less step i suppose.

Kohatu smash, all MO with kohatu at 40, 20, 10 and 0 minutes to about 34IBUs with california lager yeast. I really like this yeast, its awesome!

My plan in 2013 is to brew more than two beers in a row without a fu(king stuck sparge... And to brew some Altbiers over winter as I havent brewed one before.

God you beers look like crap, so disappointing ;)

Bollocks I reckon. I brewed with it for quite a while, years, and got pretty good results (not as good as with liquid). But then results became not so good, with that yeast. If anything my brewing methods became better, and when I consistenty get good results from other dry yeasts I suspect...

Agree, crash chill and it will go. A bit OT but i really cant stand us-05, had a few brews with off flavours, poor performance before ditching it altogether. If you must use a dry yeast, try the S-189 brewed at 16 degrees and you'll find you get better results. Cheers.

I put mine in the compost with a fair bit of dry pea straw mulch. The dry stuff stops the grain from stinking, just give the compost a good stir when it goes in. Recently the grain caused my compost to get quite hot which probably wasnt good for the worms.

Coopers sparkly ale clone, with american ale II yeast so it lacks that classic bite. But very good nonetheless.

I did a few SMASH beers last summer with this, different hops (Wai-iti and Galaxy), brewed at 16 degrees, used BB ale malt and after 4-6 weeks conditioning they were really good - malt and hops came through well and they had a very nice lagery finish. I'm brewing my APAs for this summer with...

I've just started drinking this and its pretty close. I used POR flowers and its very smooth, quite happy with it. I used american ale II but with coopers yeast it would be better. 3.50 kg Ale Malt (Barrett Burston) (6.0 EBC) Grain 84.50 % 0.50 kg Wheat Malt, Malt Craft (Joe White) (3.5 EBC)...

+1 with some simcoe thrown in, bloody awesome! Amarillo and cascade together go really well - I find cascade is more grapefruity whereas amarillo is stone fruit (almost perfumy) and more subtle.