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Homebrew Competitions / Win a Brewhemoth

« on: March 09, 2013, 12:35:34 PM »

The St Louis Microfest competition (http://www.stlbrews.org/competition/lift_for_life/index.asp) has a Brewhemoth conical fermenter as the BOS prize. Feel like judging? One lucky judge will walk away with a Penrose Kettle!

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Equipment and Software / The Brewhemoth is headed to Philly

« on: January 29, 2013, 03:00:52 PM »

Its official, the Brewhemoth is headed to Philly. Please stop by our booth, see our product, hopefully chilling and pressure demos will be going on. Hope to see you there!

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Events / NHC 2013 questions

« on: December 08, 2012, 08:12:26 AM »

Have never been to one of these, a few questions, are there vendor booths? If there are, who does one talk to to get one? The Brewhemoth would like to attend.

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The Pub / Any hunters here?

« on: November 16, 2012, 04:12:59 PM »

My deer season ended yesterday with a 205 pound 8 point whitetail buck. Anyone else do any good. Brewing Big Buck Old Ale tomorrow!

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Homebrew Competitions / Stainless Steel Conical as BOS

« on: September 20, 2012, 10:29:49 AM »

Hoppy Halloween is giving a Brewhemoth Tri-clamp Conical Fermenter away as the BOS prize. WOOHOO!!!!

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Ingredients / African Beer

« on: June 15, 2012, 04:45:05 AM »

I've been asked to brew some "African" style beers for my church.I'm looking for some malted sorghum and any herbs that might have been used. Recipes are also appreciated. Thanks!

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Yeast and Fermentation / Isenglass

« on: April 23, 2012, 03:30:49 PM »

Will adding Isenglass effect the vitality of the yeast harvested after?

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Homebrew Competitions / NHC details

« on: January 16, 2012, 05:26:20 PM »

Any news on the TBD location? When are the rules coming out? How many bottles per round? Pick your location?

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Ingredients / Dry Hop Temp

« on: October 07, 2011, 03:17:24 AM »

What would be the ideal temp to dry hop an APA? Currently I have it at 38 degrees with 11 psi of CO2 on it in my conical, hoping to carbonate at the same time. What temp would you pick?

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Yeast and Fermentation / Would you use it?

« on: September 06, 2011, 03:17:20 AM »

Saturday morning I run down to the local LHBS to get some Wyeast 1968. They were out, grabbed two pouches of 1028 instead, suddenly decided to do a ten gallon batch of bitter, OG 1.034.Smacked both packs, do my honey-do's, two hours later start the mash. A five hours later, chilling the wort and neither bag has started to swell. Run up to a different LHBS, pick up some DME and a couple packs of S04 (insurance). Put the wort in the conical, set the temp controller, mixed up the DME (1/2 gallon starter OG 1035), added plenty of O2 and the two pouches of 1028. Sunday morning nothing going on in the starter, checked the gravity, no change. Pitched the S04. Monday, the starter started bubbling, this morning its starting to clear. Question is, should I save the 1028 yeast for a future batch, or pitch it?

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Kegging and Bottling / Home built beer engine

« on: September 02, 2011, 09:40:23 AM »

A work in progress, have already changed the spout design, and need to gussy it up some, but it pours a half pint (almost) per draw. Will be brewing bitter this weekend to test this out on!

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Yeast and Fermentation / Disaster in my brewery

« on: August 16, 2011, 06:19:13 AM »

My chiller died, leaving a ten gallon batch of Scottish 60/ fermenting at wildly high temps (mid 90's when I found it). I'm guessing the beer is a total wash, but what are the odds of saving the yeast cake? Think it will be re-usable? It was Wyeast Scottish Ale if that makes any difference.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Fruit Flies

« on: August 01, 2011, 04:28:30 PM »

They are swarming around my taps. Any good methods of getting rid of them? Seems every time I pour a pint, I get one out of the tap.

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All Grain Brewing / Sugar to lighten body

« on: June 05, 2011, 05:54:04 AM »

I made a Saison yesterday, 10 gallon batch, 1042 going into the fermenter. I ended up mashing a little high (155) due to a couple miss calculations (temp of grain, mash tun temp, still on winter brew mind set, that and brewing in the upper 90's). So this is going to finish a little thicker than I want. So the question is, will adding a sugar syrup to the fermenter lighten the resulting body? If so, how much sugar do I need to add?
Thanks

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General Homebrew Discussion / Triple batch day!

« on: May 21, 2011, 09:17:49 AM »

I'm half way thru my triple batch day. Batch 1 is chilling, 15 gallons of bitter. Batch 2 is boiling, 5 gallons of porter. Batch 3 will be 10 gallons of American Brown. Things are going very well!