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Ingredients / 4 hour Dry Hopping?

« on: May 22, 2013, 03:44:34 pm »

I have been re-reading the Peter Wolfe masters thesis: "A Study of Factors Affecting the Extraction of Flavor When Dry Hopping Beer"

And find myself wondering if anyone has acted on his findings that the extraction of the oils Myrcene and humulene peak at 4 hours. 

I'm going to brew an IPA on Friday.  I'm already changing one variable for this brew so I am hesitant to change another and complicate things.

Anybody try dryhopping for 4 hours?

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Ingredients / Re: Belma Hops?!?!?

« on: May 22, 2013, 03:21:37 pm »

I've only used Belma once in a Saison.  I used only 4 oz. in a 5 gal. batch and got no hop flavor that I could detect.  It was an OK beer, my review is here: http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/forum/index.php?topic=15143.msg192302#msg192302

I suspected that the Total Oil (Mls. per 100 grams dried hops) was low so I emailed Hops Direct and asked.  I just got the response: "The total oil content for Belma is 0.8"   So it is on the low side.  He did not give me a breakdown on the types of oils and their percentages.  Next time I will really load up the flavor additions.

For a comparison, Citra is 2.2-2.8. 

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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: Wyeast 1968 - Wow

« on: May 22, 2013, 02:27:03 pm »

Very awesome!  I had the same "WOW" reaction the first time I used it as well.  I have been using this in a lot of my brews and love it.

What are you brewing?

An IPA on Friday.  This is my second time using this yeast, but the first time I didn't have time to do a yeast starter so I used to smack packs and didn't get to see the show.

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Yeast and Fermentation / Wyeast 1968 - Wow

« on: May 22, 2013, 09:54:48 am »

Wow this yeast is flocculant!  I started this starter last night and got up to this this morning.  I'm also impressed with how well that little stir bar works!

http://s787.photobucket.com/user/yso191/media/IMG_0194_zpsf7ee27b1.mp4.html

I couldn't get the short video to post here so I just linked to photobucket.  Is there a way to post video?

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: When did you switch to all grain?

« on: May 15, 2013, 10:39:43 am »

I have never done an extract brew - started right off with all-grain.  I just thought that if I'm going to end up there, I might as well go for it.

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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Sticky taps

« on: May 09, 2013, 02:44:40 pm »

Forward seal faucets like Perlick will fix this problem.

+1  I always had this problem until I replaced them with Perlicks.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Drinking while brewing

« on: May 07, 2013, 07:17:08 pm »

Yeah...  I just finished my brew day.  I thought "shoot I know my process.". And popped the cap off a bomber.  I thought I was doing fine until I realized I was sparging with 120* water.  I think that was the only mistake I made today.

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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Bottling from a keg

« on: May 06, 2013, 08:21:14 am »

I too love my Blichmann beer gun.  Very easy to operate, works great, and once I get going I can crank out a 5 gallon batch in just over a half an hour.

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Pimp My System / Re: Speidel Braumeister...anyone have one?

« on: May 04, 2013, 09:52:21 am »

A friend of mine has one.  I've done a brew day with him.  In addition to the above mentioned gravity limitation, I am unimpressed with the heating element.  It takes a long time to heat and the boil is weak. 

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Want to help me name a beer?

« on: April 14, 2013, 05:23:14 am »

I like doing this, but I need more info.  What is the look and feel of your brewery?  What are your other beer names?  Do you have a target market?

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Want to help me name a beer?

« on: April 13, 2013, 03:22:02 pm »

Is this for a brewery or a homebrew?

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Ingredients / Check my Brun' Water?

« on: April 12, 2013, 09:02:15 am »

In a couple of hours I am going to brew a Southern English Brown Ale.  This is the first time I have used the Brun' Water spreadsheet for my water salt additions, so I am posting to see if there is someone who would be willing to recieve my spreadsheet file via email and look it over just to make sure I am getting things right.

If you are willing please message me with your email address and I'll shoot it to you.  Thanks!

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All Grain Brewing / Re: Gravity adjusting

« on: April 10, 2013, 10:44:21 am »

For me it kind of depends on the recipe. For something like a dark roasted malt that I'm using in a relatively low amount to begin with I may leave the quantity the same, especially if it's there primarily for color. Otherwise, I usually scale by percentage, but then I start rounding up the specialty grains to an even number of ounces because I have OCD like that.

I have CDO.  It is similar to OCD except the letters are in the correct order.  And I do the same thing you do by rounding ounces out.

Thanks again to everyone for your contribution to my continuing education.

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All Grain Brewing / Re: Gravity adjusting

« on: April 09, 2013, 04:13:08 pm »

Thanks!

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All Grain Brewing / Gravity adjusting

« on: April 09, 2013, 03:22:45 pm »

I have heard on a podcast (Jamil Z. as I recall) that when one wants to adjust the gravity of a brew that what should change is the base grain(s).  However, Beersmith adjust everything proportionally.  Which is correct?