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So bringing back this thread from 2009 - what is the current thinking now that we’ve entered the days of the low carb beer craze? My wife wants the low carbs. Here its about $22 for a 12 pack of Michelob Ultra or Modelo Oro or about any of them. Seems we could do it cheaper? White Labs now...

You can drop the mash temp even lower - 147, 148. If you can do a step mash that helps. As others have said, you can replace some of the grain with 100% fermentable sugar. I probably wouldn’t go more than about 10%. Also really build up your yeast. Make a big starter or I usually brew...

I heard recently of people using malted corn instead of flaked. A guy in our club brought an American lager he brewed with malted corn to our last meeting and it was very tasty, probably the best beer there. I haven’t looked at malted corn but now I think I might.

I either bottle a batch or keg it - I don’t ever brew big batches and bottle half/keg half etc. Over the years, just about ALL of my problem batches have been bottles. I’ve had ALOT of infected bottle batches. I’ve had very few off, bad, or infected keg batches. There’s so much more that...

When I was younger in the 70s, my parents used to take us to a campground in Virginia for vacation. And on more than one occasion, we visited Busch Gardens down there. I distinctly remember having the Michelob Classic Dark in the Festhaus there listening to the oompah music and watching the...

Yeah you made it closer to a lager. But that’s the thing with cream ales - they are a hybrid style. What differentiates a cream ale from a blonde ale? Much has been written about using 34/70 at ale temps - and I think that would be a perfect choice for this. You could even go 65 degrees next...

Brewing with the seasons. I love it. Wish I had it together like that.

Couple ounces of rum and a cigar. Oliva Connecticut Reserve

I envy you for that! We just don’t usually see it here in the US. I see very little British beer except for stuff like Boddington’s in nitro cans. Fullers London Pride or ESB are around in 4 pack bottles. Bitter is rare, Mild here is non-existstent. Even Bass ale which I used to see all the...

They’re all over the place and they’re not even consistent with each other. One brewery’s Best is the same as another brewery’s Ordinary. Another brewery’s Best is the same as somebody else’s Strong.

I have Simpsons Best which I like alot. I also have some Warminster Maris Otter which is floor malted.

Well, I have a whole thing with hops. The hops we’re buying and using now are last year‘s harvest, right? Harvested when, packaged when, shipped how, stored how? Even if they’re 6 months in the package they’ve most likely lost some. So when you’re getting hops that say 8%, are they really...

The last one I did was: 5 gal OG: 1.034 IBU: 29 SRM: 10 6 lbs British Pale malt (I have Simpson’s) 6 oz Crystal 65 (Fawcett) 6 oz Special Roast (Breiss) First Gold 8% .6 oz 60 min Kent Goldings 5.6% 1 oz 20 min Kent Goldings 5.6% 1 oz 5 min Wyeast 1099 My water numbers were similar: Ca: 57...

Got this in email today

And this is good info how to attach a beer engine using John Guest fittings. This is how I did mine. https://realaleamerica.com/?page_id=2083

I put it above in #8. No I don’t have a real cask. I have it set up to use a corny keg. I have to vent the pressure release. Leave the pressure release open. Work the hand pump. Close the pressure release and re-pressurize when I’m done. Store the keg in my kegerator. I don’t have any way to...

Thanks. Total Wine helps. We have one that is about a 40 min drive. And there’s another discount beer place here. I just got that 30 pack of Strohs for $10. And 2 cases of Ultra in bottles also $10 each. Hard to pass for about .33 a can/bottle

Was a work in progress for awhile. Took years to get to this. And I know its not as nice as what some others here have. After we finished this basement I found a 5 foot wood bar with a footrail and mirror back bar at a consignment shop. Then I found the buffet server at another consignment...

Little cigar (Gran Habano) and a couple ounces of rum