Lawrence Brewers Guild

I have used the WLP099 White Labs Super High Gravity and have it on slant. I use it for my "panty drop lemonade" (trademark pending to Devin) as well as have made a brown ale (Brown Abomination) in which I tried to push the boundary as to how high octane I could get out of the beer. I don'...

I just found a source here in VA that can get the real Dogfish 60 and 90 min ale. I am coming home for a couple of day in April. Anyone interested ?

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Jason

yea...yea...that is WONDERFUL

Yea Flicker went and made something that was nice and easy complicated. Thanks for the update Joe.

Jason

Hey everyone at the LBG!! Been a while since I have posted and thought I would drop a quick note. Finally got to VA and settled in. Everyone at work is real nice. The drivers and traffic on the other had is AWFUL. We ain't in Kansas anymore. There is no easy way to get anywhere around here and speed...

Chris that is Awesome!

Jason

Just remember your refractometer needs to have an ATM (aromatic temperature modifier) built into it in order to take a reading from hot samples. Some of the cheap ones do not have an ATM and the sample needs to be at 70F to be read.

Jason

Still can use a hydrometer as long as you take the temperature of the wort and adjust the reading for the temp..

Yea, the pros ain't getting 100%

Looks like you are on the money by the beer math :drunken: My guess is that your percent is a tad high. This is most likely due to the average PPG listing from the table you used. These numbers are averages from many batches of malt. I am betting if you used the Certificate of Analysis from the malt...

Chris,

What are we looking at in the picture?

Jason

Remember you have a hookup that lives right down the road from HF

You did well on the deal. Not great OMG deal of a lifetime...but very well.

Jason

you can be a lab rat and an IDIOT all at the same time

Jason

The other key point is NOT to read them upside down...really messes things up

Unfortunately, been there, done that.

Jason

Real quick way to get a baseline of your water is to go to your local spa shop and get an AquaCheck set of test strips (about $15) http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4152/5070535690_737886bb12.jpg These will test for total hardness (0-1000 ppm), Alkalinity (0-240 ppm) and pH (6.2-8.4). They also test fo...

I experimented with different size of holes in the "wands" and also the placement of the holes on the wand. The goal was to get the high pressure steams where the "gunk" line was on the carboy. I wound up using a wand with holes at the tip and at the base. I think they were 1/32t...

Jim,

Here is a link to a detailed post and a printable chart for using Brix/Plato to do your brewing

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If you have any questions, drop me a note

Jason