The only other topic I found on this was here: Using pine in beer - it was asked nearly 10 years ago and didn't have the answers. Does anyone have experience with using pine in their brewing and if so, What was your method and how much (even roughly) would you say is an ideal ratio of beer/pine? Anything else you can say based on your experience with using pine with brewing? I'm keen to experiment but want to make …
A newbie here. I've brewed thousands of litres of good, bright tasty wine over the years, but this year I've turned my hand to beer. I brewed a Yorkshire bitter already, and am currently brewing a stout. Both from kits. But I like to experiment. I've gathered the following ingredients for a blond beer. 1.5 kg extra light spray malt, 1 kg of Polenta (ground dried sweetcorn) Bottom fermenting lager yeast, East Kent Golding hop pellets, Yeast nutrient for a …
I'm wondering if there's any way to kill the preservatives in store bought juice. I was thinking about boiling it at high temperature for like 5 minutes, but not sure if it'll work. If anybody has a solution, I'd sure love to hear it ! A friend of mine makes mash out of store bought juice, but won't tell me how he does it to kill off the preservatives. "TRADE SECRET", he says.......
Good day, I am seeking help from the seasoned brewers on this forum to find a recipe for a beer that I absolutely loved and cannot get anymore of because it was only a seasonal craft beer that Mill St. used to carry here in Ottawa, Ontario and is now, well all dried up of course. When I read the ingredients listed on the bottle, they listed only (3) key ingredients, Barley, Wheat and Pineapple, while their website describes the …
I am new to home brewing and would welcome the insights and comments of the other home brewers on this website in order to brew a 5 gallon batch of a Wheat and Barley based Pale Ale. That said, what would be the typical grain bill be (for a 5 gallon brew) as well as the water ratios (mash in vs mash out). Much thanks and appreciation for everyone's help and support. Jay
Can theatre buttered and salted popcorn be used for brewing brewing at home? A friend of mine has access to leftover popcorn from a movie theatre and I was wondering if it could be used for brewing at home? I do not know enough about home brewing to know if this is even possible, given the particular circumstances. The popcorn is already buttered and salted, so I do not know if these would interfere with the brewing process. If it …
As some of you may be aware I have a strange obsession with old beers styles and trying to recreate historical styles. My next idea is to try and create the style Mum. "This is a style originally from Germany but popular in Britain from 1660 to early 19th Century.".[1] Does anyone know of any sources for this, any contemporary accounts or even some old recipes for this beer style. So, far I have a one line metion on wikipedia …
Not sure if this is the right forum for this question.. A SMASH beer is Single Malt And Single Hop, and (from the recipes I've seen) just those - if you mashed with an adjunct like wheat would you still consider that a SMASH so long as there was only one malt in the grain bill?
I'm browsing through Brewers Friend recipes, specifically looking at NEIPAs. With a few exceptions they are mostly 60min(+) boils even though they don't have bittering additions at the start of the boil (as-per the low-bitterness of the style). The first hop addition tends to be at the whirlpool, or towards the end of the boil (e.g. 60min boil with first hops @ 10min). Why would you boil a beer like this for that long? Is it just to raise the …
first time poster (long time lurker) on these forums. Hope you'll are doing well. I am 6 months into this hobby and have brewed 3 Pale Ales which have ranged from disastrous to pretty bad :P I now am eager to brew a Porter (1 Gallon). All the 3 brews I have done so far have been using the Brewers Friend Windows Software which has stopped working. So I have tried Beersmith and the Brewfather app, must say, I found …
I have done some research but are easily confused by metric (approximate imperial) conversions. My constraints are really a lack of proper equipment but I have the following: 2 x 5 L (5 qt) fermentation bottles (PET water bottles) 300 mm (1 ft) diameter - 300 mm (1 ft) deep pot that will fit on my gas stove, calculated total volume 20 L (20 qt) no chilling facilities My planned quantities are as follows: 30 g (1 oz) hops 12 …
does anyone have any recipes that produces beer really cheaply. I have several slug traps in my garden to get rid of slugs/snails and I currently buy cheap beer from the shop, but it's a pain having to get 4 packs every week, it would be easier if i could just have a large container which I can fill my Slug Traps up from. I'm looking for something that would cost £1.30 per Litre or less to produce and it …
So I followed a recipe called "hoppy red ale" and I just took a sample after 14 days in the fermenter. I'm a little disappointed that it's not as red as I thought it would be. It's more of a brown / golden yellow. My second confusion is the fact that it tastes very similar to my first recipe, although slightly darker / roasted. So looking at these recipes, why didn't the second one turn out as red and why …
Simple question, does anyone know if there is a purely web based equivalent of Beer Smith / Brew Target, etc? Just looking for a decent product that I don't have to install on my desktop.
I have a wine that's been on primary fermentation for 10 days and still haven't seen any activity in the airlock. I think that the reason is the sugar and the yeast needed to be added. I saw in some YouTube channels that in one gallon of Welch's grape juice I should take out two cups of the juice out, then I have to add half a kg of sugar and one teaspoon of yeast to it. In fact, I …
I found the following recipe on Brewers Friend: https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/528861/kellermeister This is a traditional all grain recipe and I would like to brew it with my BIAB setup. But I'm having trouble understanding/converting the mash steps described on the recipe, which are the following: Amount Description Type Temp Time -- Infusion 53 °C 20 min -- Infusion 65 °C 30 min -- Temperature 70 °C 30 min -- Fly Sparge 76 °C 15 min The Infusion and Sparge steps are quite …
I would like to try my hand at brewing Keptinis (I've read Lar's blog). I would like a recipe geared towards modern homebrewers and I'm most interested in the baking part and how to do that in a standard oven or grill. I think the rest I can figure out with my setup. Thanks!
Has anybody experimented with blending different varieties of apple for "hard cider"? Locally I have an apple variety called "Blenheim Orange" and also an unidentified cider apple. Using just the cider apple produces a very vigorous fermentation even at 20°C but the result is pretty bland. The B.O. apple ferments much slower and unpredictably but produces a more interesting flavour. I'm trying a blend of the two this year and just wondering what success others may have had in blending …
I'm brand new to brewing, but I've been wanting to do it for a while. I've seen some videos. Seems that, like cooking, recipes are key at the beginning until one gains enough experience to experiment. Are there any beer recipe websites that cater to beginners? I specifically want to avoid websites that sell pre-packaged recipes as part of their business. I'd prefer to order ingredients myself.