Recent content by yankee brewer

G'day mates! Sorry for my rather extensive absence from this group! I've been a little busy with life-sustaining stuff unrelated to beer (yes, I'm afraid I've discovered there actually IS life-sustaining stuff and activities other than beer and brewing... blasphemy??? perhaps. True...

Lots of work left to be done on this one. Final gravity 1.024 (too much caramel malt = too many unfermentables) Really malty, high alcohol. Good overall beer but I wouldn't go brewing it just yet. It is too cloyingly sweet. I even tried to get it to come down a bit with champaign yeast-- no...

Here is a link to my replies to a similar topic about Cali Lager: http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...indpost&p=10036 and http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...indpost&p=10418 Hope it helps.

Well, like any flavor, its hard to describe. Cali common has a friutier profile than a typical lager, but is cleaner than an ale. Fairly good dose of hops, about the color of a brown ale but with a bit more roasted malt. Heavy on the carbonation-- that's where one theory about the origins of the...

Hey guys, California Common beer, AKA "Steam Beer" has its origins in the California gold rush days, when lots of folks from the east coast were heading out to California to strike it rich. This was at a time when lagers had really become big in the USA-- on the modernized east coast. Things...

Don't know about you guys, but around here we use corn starch as a thickening agent in gravies and fruit pie fillings and it is cheap as dirt-- when you buy good ol' "corn starch" and not some glorified repackaged "brewer's maize starch" crapola. Look around for a box of plain corn starch. If...

Hey deebee, WTF are "bardi grubs"??? I've never heard of such a thing. Then again, I'm not from your neck of the woods. Anyhoo, I thought I'd share one with you guys. Back in high school we used to dring whatever we could get our mits on. As I got a little older I found I preferred the imports...

Damn folks, you guys have it rough! None of the kegs here in the States have serial numbers on them! Damned good idea though if you are a brewery-- keeps the home brewers from horking your kegs! Boy, if shipping to Oz were not so much I could have myself quite a racket huh? In any case, this...

Finally I'm past high kraeusen and damn it if I did not lose 3/4 of a gallon to that blow off spew. I guess next time I'll buy bigger fermenters. My house is filled with this intense fruity smell-- I love it! :rolleyes:

Regrettably Doc, My camera is a geniune P.O.S. and I count myself lucky when I get it to work at all. In any case, I got home from work to find that the vessel I chose for blow off was totally inadequate. There was sticky hoppy, crusty foam all over the floor. So now I set up a 5 gallon bucket...

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Well, I began brewing at 11:30 AM and finished at 12:00 midnight, The mash was so thick that it clogged my false bottom-- So I'll drill more holes and cut more slots before the next batch. After collecting 10 gallons of sweet wort the gravity was still at 1.050, So I collected another 5 gallons...

Ingredients are here. I'm brewing on Monday.

Well, I chose safeale s04 because it is derived from the Whitbread yeast strain. I use the WYEAST 1098 strain in several of my beers and I like the fruity profile and high attenuation (Ill need the high attenuation in this beast) I've not used this dry yeast before but even if it tries to "suck...

Well gang, I just placed my order at williamsbrewing.com. Here is a copy of the bill: SKU Items in Basket Qty. Price Ext. Price H08 6 OZ SAAZ PELLETS 1 $5.00 $5.00 H21 6 OZ MITTELFRUEH PELLET 1 $5.00 $5.00 H45 6 OZ UK FUGGLE PELLET 1 $7.00 $7.00 M43 1 LB 40L CRYSTAL...