Anyone brew their own beer?

[Punx Clever]

Oatmeal stout?

[PhoenixS4R]

I have an imperial oatmeal chocolate stout going right now.... but I would like a plan jane super thick oatmeal stout.

I found an expired vial of European ale yeast in the fridge.... I'm gonna try to revive it. Any idea on what to make with it?


Can I do an IPA with that style? Hmm... google here I come.

[Punx Clever]

Yep, sure can.  Use Marris Otter & EKG's and fuggles

[PhoenixS4R]

Fuggles. Blek! Tasted like dirt in my last IPA.

[Punx Clever]

Well... yeah... it's supposta be earthy.  British IPA's are.

Fine, no fuggles... Willamette then

[PhoenixS4R]

lol.

I had no idea. I had a wild hair up my ass my last IPA and started just throwing in hops that I had never used before for the hell of it. It was actually quite good at the 3 week mark and went downhill (In my opinion, i must not like english IPA's) real quick. Not terribly overwhelming, just kinda left you with that "did I just get dirt in my mouth?" taste.

I forgot to check my starter with the expired yeast in it but girlfriend says it doesn't look cloudy as it normally does at this point. We'll see. Dry yeast just tripple in price, just when I started to use it. Bah. Time to start making slants.

[Punx Clever]

Bottling/kegging the pumpkin ale today!

Making 12 bottles and the rest kegged... not worth it to mix priming sugar into the whole batch... so sugar directly into the bottle.

[Punx Clever]

Pumpkin beer.

Bottled and kegging.  Thanksgiving may now proceed according to plan.

[PhoenixS4R]

U can also just naturally Carb the keg. I do that now to allow a 3 week conditioning period while carbing so its completely aged and carbonated at 6 weeks @ room temp.

[PhoenixS4R]

Yeast started didn't take off at all, good thing I have some 05 in the fridge.

[Punx Clever]

U can also just naturally Carb the keg. I do that now to allow a 3 week conditioning period while carbing so its completely aged and carbonated at 6 weeks @ room temp.

Meh, I force carb @20psi.  I brew the pumpkin beer to not need much aging time.  Only 60minute hops, and easy on the spices @4.2-4.5%.  Normally, I would even force carb then bottle from the keg... but I've lost my little-bitty stopper...

Sorry to hear about the yeast.  -05 is good stuff though.  It's either that or Nottingham when I use dry yeast.

[Punx Clever]

Candle wax didn't work quite right... but it's all good.

[PhoenixS4R]

That's pretty cool lookin

[Punx Clever]

Pain in the ass... wouldn't want to do it for a whole case.

[Mother]

Back in the day we just dipped them in the hot waxer at the ski shop