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Yeast and Fermentation / Over Attenuation?

« on: May 22, 2013, 06:34:58 pm »

So a buddy and I were having a conversation about final gravity. I have several recipes that have finished below 1.010. Around 1.005-1.008 to be exact. He mentioned getting that low usually means wild yeast was introduced somewhere. I've only been brewing for a year and typically US-05 is my go-to yeast. What do you think of this hypothesis?

I think it's completely off the mark unless the beers taste like they're infected.

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Ingredients / 4 hour Dry Hopping?

« on: May 22, 2013, 04:26:44 pm »

I have taken a sample of a beer that has been dry hopped less than 24 hours.  I wasn't impressed.

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Yeast and Fermentation / Color pickup from dark beer yeast slurry

« on: May 22, 2013, 02:56:56 pm »

Are you gonna wash it? That should get a lot of the dark color out.

I'm.  I took some pf the slurry and put it in a starter on a stir plate.  I'll decant when it's done.

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The Pub / self driving car

« on: May 22, 2013, 02:56:08 pm »

I've often wondered if this concept would ever be realized in my lifetime.

Depends on how long ya live, Ron!

I can't answer that one Denny. I imagine it will be past my prime anyway.

We should have all got jet packs by now.  They promised.

Where's my jetpack!?

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Yeast and Fermentation / Color pickup from dark beer yeast slurry

« on: May 22, 2013, 12:07:44 pm »

Maybe a bit.  I'm about to do something similar, so I'll know soon.

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The Pub / self driving car

« on: May 22, 2013, 09:53:37 am »

I've often wondered if this concept would ever be realized in my lifetime.

Depends on how long ya live, Ron!

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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: Over Attenuating Yeast - How is it Possible?

« on: May 21, 2013, 12:10:52 pm »

Doesn't Rogue use malt from house-grown barley? Not sure if they use it in all of their beers.

If so, substituting a highly-modified base malt could make a big difference.

They use it in some of the beers.  Some are 100%, some are only a bit.  Most beers at Rogue are made from Great Western malt.

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The Pub / Re: 2nd Gourmets & Growlers pairing event

« on: May 21, 2013, 10:05:48 am »

Diane, that sounds fantastic!  Good on you guys!  Wish our club would do something like that.

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The Pub / Re: self driving car

« on: May 21, 2013, 10:04:07 am »

YEAH!

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Equipment and Software / Re: Those little red cans of Oxygen

« on: May 21, 2013, 09:59:48 am »

Hooray!  Do I get a sticker or something? But seriously, on a homebrew level I just don't see the point of pure O2.

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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: When is a Wit not a Wit?

« on: May 21, 2013, 09:54:16 am »

re you trying to make a beer that tastes like a wit?  Have you considered making another Belgian style that might be more appropriate for the yeast?

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Questions about the forum? / Re: Missing avatars

« on: May 21, 2013, 09:40:33 am »

They're not back for me, I only see Amanda's.  I refreshed a bunch of times.  Oh well.

Did you try clearing your cache and shutting down your browser?

No, but I just forced a refresh without using cached content (ctrl-f5) and everyone except hubie has an avatar now.

That's what it looks like for me.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: First beer taste

« on: May 21, 2013, 09:39:43 am »

Frank, it might help to do what I do...I take an 8-12 oz. hydrometer sample.  After I get the gravity, I pour the sample into a 20 oz. PET bottle, put a carbonator cap on it and hit it with about 30 psi.  Put it in the freezer for maybe 30-45 min. and you have a cold, carbonated sample.

sheer genius!

Around here we call it "pragmatism"! 

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Questions about the forum? / Re: Missing avatars

« on: May 21, 2013, 09:37:11 am »

Gary Glass said his didn't show up til he re-uploaded his avatar.

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Questions about the forum? / Re: Missing avatars

« on: May 21, 2013, 09:35:22 am »

They're not back for me, I only see Amanda's.  I refreshed a bunch of times.  Oh well.

Did you try clearing your cache and shutting down your browser?