Brewcommune

Will be there!

JR

Well deserved, Calvin.

How did these work out?

Nice!

Tim, should we bring beer to taste, or keep it simple and not do that this time?

Elephant, clearly.

I'll be on.

Hi Greg -

I just ordered a 4pk - says p/u is available after 3:05 PM tomorrow.

Big thanks if you can pick that up.

Will send you a PM with the details.

CurtisG wrote:

MrAverageGuy wrote:Big thanks! If I scale this to a little batch, I can actually do the step mashing with my primitive gear...

Cuts back on the harsh crystal taste. I do that for all my recipes now.

Upping the pH to 5.4 - 5.5 should also help in that way, no?

Big thanks! If I scale this to a little batch, I can actually do the step mashing with my primitive gear...

Does anyone have a solid Altbier recipe that is tried and true? There's one from Jamil Zainasheff showing up on BeerSmith that I'm looking at, but I haven't locked down on anything.

All tips welcomed.

Jim

Me, too!

There is some positive news out there on treatments and on other fronts (for example, Google on hydroxychloroquine), that is currently being drowned out by the media torrent of bad news, IMO. Hey I have a jug of that in my shed. I'll just chug some of it. :thumbup: Jokes aside. I need to brew... pr...

Thanks for asking! All good here - I think we're less impacted than some are right now. Definitely brewing, especially since I got a helpful tip from Curtis on where to get some ingredients I needed. Got a British Golden Ale kegged, a best bitter (sort of a Boddington's clone, with invert sugar, etc...

Hi gents - I have one of these (300 micron cylindrical SS mesh), but don't use it any more - it kept clogging with hop material, and I was concerned the hop oils weren't getting fully contacted by the wort. Hopefully yours will work better, but at 400 um mesh, you might see the same thing.

Gonna be in Phoenix that day, hate to miss it. I'm down for hosting one at a future date....!

Jim