Recent content by jdauria

Enjoy! Have been trying to get my friends to do a guys trip to Milwaukee, so many good breweries there...but so far they are too whipped to say yes!

Welcome from a former CT person!

Had a dry yeast take 5 days to get going in a lager recently and then barely moved much for another few days. But at this point, I would definitely pitch new yeast.

So just pitched the pack, no starter? That's underpitched for a lager. Not knowing your OG, so assuming just 1.050 5 gallon batch of lager, would need around 350 billion cells, the one pack is 200 billion on the day it was packaged and only drops more the older it gets. With the under...

This is a decent overview...if you go to the section on ions, it lists the key things you need to look for. Brewing Water

Brewed a Czech Pils on Memorial Day, pretty straight forward brew... Floor Malted Bohemian Pils, a touch of victory, a lot of Saaz and a little Sterling in whirlpool. WLP800. Nothing on deck for this weekend as heading to friend's beach house on Cape Cod, but ready to brew a dark Weizenbock.

Using Brewers Friend Yeast Calculator, a 1.094 gravity beer, assuming 5 gallon batch, would need almost 3 packs of dry yeast at the minimum pitch rate for an ale. Not sure if that would be different for pressurized ferment.

I started with tap water myself years ago, the beers were good, but not great. I finally decided to do a Ward Labs water test because my town's water report is always a year old and is an average mineral quantity of multiple tests over the year. It turned out that my local water had sodium...

It depends on the style of beer really. Calcium Chloride, Gypsum, Epsom Salt and salt are the 4 I use the most and a little baking soda if it's a dark beer as roast malts will drop pH, so banking soda will bring it back up some. I just brewed a Czech Pilsner this weekend, which should be...

Temp control and using RO water/water salts were the two biggest for me.

1518 + 2.5 gallons of Czech Pils =1250.50

Recipe based on MeanBrews recipe. Gold Medal & 2nd Place Best in Show at New England Brewing (CT) comp. High score of 44. Silver Medal at 2024 Peach State comp. 68% Mash Efficiency 81.6% Barke Pils 07.7% Barke Munich 06.5% Vienna Malt 04.1% Carafoam 21 IBUs Mittelfrueh at 60 6.4 IBUs...

A League of Extraordinary Bitters Someone Touched My Dunkel Jenny C's Cream Ale (a play on Genesee Cream Ale) Das Wasser Des Leben (The Water of Life) for a Munich Helles

1344.25 + 2.75 gallons American Brown Ale =1347.0 gallons

Thanks Murph!