Recent content by jdauria

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!

12+ years of brewing...lagers are definitely my favorite, especially a Schwarzbier, though a Czech Dark is a close 2nd.

Yeah that's the one I was talking about...I probably embellished a little on it's near NH, but it's definitely closer to New Hampshire than it is to Braintree thanks to Expressway traffic! But hey, all us South Shore people think anything north of Boston is New Hampshire. ;) There is a very...

Yeah like everything else, grain, yeast, hops etc have gone up in price. My LHBS closed a few years ago, not really due to a drop in customers, but due to an owner who wanted to save money by closing every store in his chain but the original one, in order to put the money into the brewery he...

I second ordering directly from White Labs...they do two day air mail shipping in an insulated cooler. So shipping can be pricey, but if you order several strains to have on hand, it's worth it. Besides White Labs, I would stick to dry yeast in the summer months with Florida heat. Most...

Thanks!