Recent content by capt82

True for me. I still like to explore new beers now and then but more often than not I end up wishing I just brewed my go to. I am a creature of habit and resist change so I can drink the same beer...BUT it only gets better batch after batch.

haha...from your own cite... "For less than 6 months: the product must be stored below 24°C. (75*F)." The beauty about home brewing is you can buy dry yeast from the LHBS that wasn't stored cool, throw it in the back seat of the hot car all day (week?), attempt to brew a 8% Belgian Saison and...

Why is dry yeast in coolers when you buy them? Dry yeast can die if too hot. Yeast is a living organism that requires a specific temperature range to survive. The ideal temperature for dry yeast is between 38°F and 50°F. If exposed to temperatures above 55°F, the yeast may start to...

Brewing for me has multiple levels, one being to keep it cheaper than buying craft beer. The ridiculous costs for online brew shopping is a turnoff. $2.29lb for Briess 2-row? I could probably buy craft beer for cheaper than the online prices I've experienced. Since there are no brew shops...

I have only bottled my beers for 15 years and played around with those 1 gallon mini kegs so I can't say kegged beers don't condition well. I always brew 6.5 gallon batches which yields about 65 bottles of beer. I average 1 beer a day so a batch lasts me about 1 1/2 - 2 months. The beer...

Those "American Lagers" you speak of are dull and lacking INGREDIENTS. After growing up on Coors, I can't stand it anymore after years of brewing my own. I believe they stretch the grains and hops, water it down, for more profit. Those aren't good examples of American Lagers. Try some craft...

ANY Brown Ale...hands down. American, Belgium, German, etc...it doesn't matter. The hops and roasted malts just mesh like PB & J. I messed around brewing different beers, some with success and some with fails. I have never dumped a batch of beer but have struggled to drink some down. Brown...

In my previous post you refer to, I disclosed I am no medical doctor. I made the statements based on my own experiences. Perhaps I'm wrong...like studies (from medical doctors) that show moderate consumption of beer/wine is healthy. Perhaps studies (from medical doctors) that show multiple...

The only drinks I ever heard giving palpitations are coffee and energy drinks...caffeine. I'd bet on the covid or even the damn shots. I read beer is very healthy like wine is, in moderation, but please don't take this as any advice for I am no doctor. If I live to 100 I will certainly credit...

In the 80's was my first home brew from a kit. After realizing it took me a month to make 50 beers, I abandoned home brewing because the brewing couldn't keep up with the drinking. It wasn't until around 20 years later I took up home brewing again. This time I only drank my home brew so I...

Self control is obviously the answer here. Without it, ALL advice is pointless. For those of you with self control, my advice is to brew 7% and higher ABV beers for the weekdays and 4-5% ABV beers for the weekends. The trick here is to limit yourself 1 high ABV beer per night on weekdays and...

Yeah. I stopped ordering dry yeast online for unknown temps during transport, I cut back to no more than 5% dark and hard to ferment grains, and I always do starters. I always got great fermentation activity at the start but the US-05 just stopped mid way and didn't finish as did the T-58 a...

I used T-58 a couple months ago with the same results you described. I stopped using US-5 for this very same reason. I'm not sure what changed as I can say my recipes and techniques didn't. I now use the BE-134 for my go to. It has great AA (at least as of right now) and has not done me wrong.

2-3 times the price of other Safale yeasts for a 25g packet. 98-102%AA is a large claim to live up too.

I grow in NW MT. Totally different here. In the past I had large harvests by letting 3 bines of each hop to grow without cutting the bulls off early on. They always turned to a tangled overgrown mess and the thick upper growth made for a all inclusive resort for aphids. This year I've cut...