Brewcommune

Hi, I will be there!

Looking forward to it! Not sure yet if I'll have any beer to share. We'll see how things shape up after the fest.

So, from the other post, I decided to try and carb it with priming sugar since that's all I have. I used an online calculator and made some bottling solution and dumped that into the keg. I hope that's right! Now I'm wondering how I will know if it's carbonated and if it's the right amount of carbon...

So I transferred my beer (1 gallon... long story) to a keg thanks to Justin a few weeks ago and it's been in the fridge lagering. I need a way to carbonate it before the fest. I think I can maybe take it to Windsor maybe? Any other ideas?

I don't have the capacity in my homebrew pipeline at this stage. Got to empty one keg in order to refill it.

I'm planning to make it after the homebrew fest.

Alright, so, with your feedback I've swapped out the crystal for honey malt and the barley for carapils. I knocked down the wheat and increased the corn to try to make it more in line with the cream ale style. I also bumped down the bitterness slightly. I like the idea of adding lactose but I'm worr...

Hey, thanks for that. I'm definitely shooting for Cali Creamin. I started with a recipe I found online, so honestly don't know what the barley is supposed to do.

Thought I'd do things a little differently and get your guys' feedback * before I brew a recipe this time. I was inspired by Calvin talking about using vanilla at our last meeting. I have some homemade vanilla extract made a few years back during Covid that's been aging nicely, so I thought I'd go f...

I brewed an amber lager a couple weeks ago that I'm ready to keg and start lagering. Excited to get some feedback on it!

Count me in! I'll attempt to promote on Insta with... something.

Thank you!

Hey everyone, A couple people offered to let me borrow a 5gal keg at the last meeting. I have a batch in the fermenter that just hit FG and I'd like to transfer it to a keg this weekend. I forget who was being generous with their toys, but we'll probably kick it at the brewfest and I'd have it back ...

Super helpful, thanks!

That's super interesting. One reason I'm interested in this topic too is my first batch I brewed I had a lot of astringency and haven't totally figured out why. I did stir it a lot and was very aggressive with the sparging. Now I just stir to incorporate all the grains when I first mash in, then set...