What are you brewing?

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

Perfect

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Now it's working again... doh

Weird

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PS: Looks like the "reply with quote" feature is again not working

I also had it around the same time when I tried to edit my post. It was just blank.. nothing loaded for me to edit.

[Toxxyc Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Toxxyc]

Cold crashed the pseudo pilsner I forgot about. It has now spend almost 3 weeks in the fermenter, the first week at 16°C and then the rest of the time at 20°C. It's now down to 10°C and I'll fine it this weekend.

Corona is screwing with me badly. I have some taste, but not enough to taste lighter beers. That means my Helles literally still tastes like carbonated water, but without the sourness of the CO2. It's just like drinking water with some texture.

I'm out of the competition, since wife and kids also got sick, and that means I have to isolate with them until AT LEAST Thursday. That'll be 14 days since they started showing symptoms.

This virus is shit, guys. Totally, totally shit. At least I got to bottle my rum as I could smell and taste that pretty well. I'll post pics in the Rum thread.

[Jitters Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jitters]

glad you guys came through this with minimal damage. the taste will return in time, and there will be other competitions to enter in.

[BeerHolic Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BeerHolic]

My take on a Amber Ale

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[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

Should work.

I love my African Queen Hops.

I made this Pale twice already and will again soon ... cant get enough of it and keg drops fast...

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[jannieverjaar Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jannieverjaar]

Brewing my favorite again today. American blonde. Pils pale and a little cara hell.
But I have used 200g wheat in the past to great affect. I dont have any atm. BUT. what do you think about adding 200g Oats?

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[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

You could, but I can't understand why you feel you need to?

The Pils + CaraHell is one of my favourite combinations

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[jannieverjaar Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jannieverjaar]

You could, but I can't understand why you feel you need to?

The Pils + CaraHell is one of my favourite combinations

Ill remember that thanks. But I added 200g. Will go without next time.

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[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

Nothing wrong with adding stuff like that ... If you struggle with head retention, then by all means add some. I used to always add a little wheat for that reason, but for a long time now I don't and Im more than happy with the cap I still get on my beer.

[Toxxyc Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Toxxyc]

OK so my taste is slooooowly returning, and this weekend I jumped into that keg of Helles I made. There's something off about that beer, and I don't know what. It seems definitely yeast-related (as it tastes like the yeast cake in the bottom of the bottle), but that doesn't make sense to me. The Irish Red I pitched on the same yeast cake does not have that off flavour at all (in fact it was damn clean).

So I'm at a loss. It seems like I'm not destined to make light coloured beers at all then. Darker beers all come out perfectly, but the light ones are a mess these days. I'll try a pilsner this week sometime and then do it with the cheaper yeasts I always used as well (or just an ale yeast). I'm over struggling with fancy shit.

Brewing my favorite again today. American blonde. Pils pale and a little cara hell.
But I have used 200g wheat in the past to great affect. I dont have any atm. BUT. what do you think about adding 200g Oats?

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I started using 200g of dextrin malt in my brews for head retention recently. The difference it makes is staggering. My beers now present with a persistent head and good lacing on the glass and it looks awesome. Literally looks and behaves like commercial lagers now. I'm not adding it to all my beers, but those where head makes a difference (like in my Helles mentioned above) it made a HUGE difference. I won't brew without it where I remotely want it ever again.

[BeerHolic Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BeerHolic]

To true, less place for issues to hide in a light coloured beer than the darker ones.

[Dewald Posthumus Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dewald Posthumus]

Toxxyc, sounds like the yeast was stressed somehow...

Use Kveik Oslo for your Pilsner - it's a nice clean yeast.

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

Toxxyc, sounds like the yeast was stressed somehow...

Use Kveik Oslo for your Pilsner - it's a nice clean yeast.

I exclusively use that now

Was not a fan of the Voss I used before this ... that orange type taste was not to my liking.