Lawrence Brewers Guild

Here is basically the final list for the 2013 Tastings: February: Chocolate + Beer March: American Red Ale / Imperial Red April: Lambics May: Kölsch with Matt Bechtold June: Water Adjustment Tasting with Belgian Blond Ale July: Boulevard Wort Transformation Aug: Imperial IPA Sept: Bock Beers Oct: Bl...

1# of Galaxy would do me nice. Good on you, mate.

Just a few recipe notes… I would advise to start soaking the oak cubes in the bourbon and vanilla (extract or beans) as soon as you can, the longer before added to secondary, the better. This will help keep things sanitary and will give you a head start on extracting those tasty oaky tannins. Oak th...

Kentucky Breakfast Porter Bourbon Barrel Coffee Oatmeal Vanilla Porter This brew is obviously inspired by Founders KBS, but I did not want something so BIG; I wanted something quaffable that you could actually drink for breakfast, as I did the morning of Brewfest. OG: 1.066 FG: 1.018 IBU: 37 Color:...

I need to have dbuscher's Kentucky Breakfast Porter recipe. I can't go on much longer without it. Surely I'm not the only one. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8318/8021616724_126d470140.jpg Let me get my notes together and I will post it in a new thread. I just ordered ingredients for another batch, ...

Here is an interesting thing I learned about the iodine test for starch conversion in your mash... So you don't have to read the rest of my story, I learned that it is best for the test wort sample to be clear, ie, post-vorlof with little or no bits of grain in it in order for the test to work prope...

Thanks for the responses, PMs sent.

Just looking for anything that will help build my cache, so a variety of sizes and styles would be desirable.

I need cheap bottles and I am looking to buy or trade for them.  I have made a lot of equipment requests on here so I was reluctant to return to the well again, but then I figured that that is what homebrew clubs are for.  And I abide by the brewer’s code,  so of course I will pay it forward later. ...

Here is the method I use to calculate my boil off rate: R = (V1-V2)/V2*100 Where: R = Boil off rate V1 = Volume at the beginning of the boil V2 = Volume at the end of the boil Sorry, I couldn't resist. :D For serials though, I took a measuring stick and poured one gallon of water at a time into my b...

+1 to Andy for suggesting the bottom-up method. Within 24 hours I had near perfect carbonation...totally transformed the beer from nearly undrinkable, which tasted like a moderately carbed wine, including a hot/sweet/bitter alcohol flavor, to a well-rounded, full-bodied Tripel that goes down light a...

Really interesting feedback from everyone... My beer was moderately carbonated but would become flat after a few minutes and had 0 head. I know that there is co2 flowing into the keg so there is no clog in the regulator. Also, the keg has been stored in the fridge consistently since it has been on c...

Top-down I assume and the set-it and forget it method, although I did lie the keg on it's side and shook it for a few seconds when I jacked it up to 30psi. I think I'll let it set for another week at the proper psi and then see where we're at. Also, I thought once it was carbed, it was carbed, ie, i...

I am carbonating a Tripel to ~ 3.5 volumes and set my pressure at 20psi and kegerator at 36-38 and let it go for a week and a half. I then took it off the CO2 (I did not test it at that time) for another couple of weeks to let it age further and to finish off another keg. After I cleaned out my line...

So I keg and i cannot invest in my own counter pressure filler until sometime in July or August... will someone please lend me a counter-pressure filler? I will of course pay in bottled beer. I need to bottle a delicious Belgian Blonde and a Dubbel with repitched yeast from the Blonde. Thanks in adv...