Lawrence Brewers Guild

After bottle aging beer for 3 weeks I move my brews to my fridge to stop carbonation. Will this permenantly stop the yeast from further activity? If so, can remove the bottles form the fridge at this point, or will I need to keep them cold indefintely? I ask because I've brewed more than my fridge ...

I am only brewing 5 gallon batches (7 gallon start) and 5 gallons doesn't last very long at 2 beers a night. Pushing along to try and get enough a head to age. November's meeting doesn't look very promising but still keeping an eye on the date. Looks like a good group of people that would be nice to...

I feel like there is some progress being made since the weight of being behind has been over my head. Kegged an Oktoberfest tonight was an ABV of 4.5. Has been in the primary for 4 weeks with 3 weeks at 50 degrees and 1 week at 65 degrees. Tasted good out of the SG sample tube. It has started the la...

Do you toast your Old Fashion Rolled Oats?

I am doing a Stout today and decided to toast my rolled oats. Toasted at 300 degrees F for 35 minutes until a very slight brown was showing.

Pretty interesting since it caught me off guard (where is the 10). The Lauder/Tun was preheated with boiling water. The mash started out at 155 degrees and stirred ever 1/2 hour during the 90 minutes and coasted down on temperature. The pre-boil gravity was close at 1.062 SG compared to the projecte...

Bill, Knowing that the efficiency numbers have been high in Beer Smith but brewing by recipe and not by working up a recipe, I think I have discovered the difference. I pulled my brewing sheets as stained as they are and looked at the numbers. Having recorded the pre-boil gravity and corrected to 60...

Not a problem. Maybe Bill is up to it also.

Bill might remember that I used to really enjoy my brew. Not much anymore since I have cut back but still enjoy a pint or two! (maybe 3).

I may try knocking it down to a lower SG next time. It was a 1.5 hour boil that was brought back to 6 gallons at the last 15 minutes of the boil. I can wait for it to mellow a little bit more though, but a pint will still give you a warm feeling :lol: I have a Irish Red Ale with Pale Chocolate, some...

Hi Bill, I need to work more with the efficiency that Beer Smith projects since there seems to be an error between the estimated and my SGs. I am sure that Jamil did a better job of brewing the recipe than I did. I would venture that 80 percent of the people that have tried it, don't care for the be...

That would be great. Let it get some age on it and mellow out.

How about in a couple of weeks?

Normally, I brew in the $25 - $32 range but I had to give this brew a go.

Have any of you brewed Jamil's Evil Twin? http://www.mrmalty.com/late_hopping.htm I have mine in the keggle tonight with 2 volumes of CO2. To me, it is like a Sierra Nevada on steroids. The citrus (grapefruit) is over the top. I like grapefruit, so it suits me fine. After 1 pint, I am already starti...

Hi All, My name is Chris Klindt. Some of you may know me as the guy that built pool cues - no more. I was poking around the Internet and discovered the Guild. Saw Bill was here so decided to join to support the Guild. Hope to meet some of you but don't have much free time. Haven't thrown out a bad b...