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- Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:09 pm
- Forum: Homebrewing Recipes and Tips
- Topic: Homebrew supplies Toronto
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9781
- Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:07 pm
- Forum: Good Pubs, Brewpubs & Beer Bars
- Topic: Volo's inconsistent service
- Replies: 82
- Views: 32710
Samples are a touchy aspect in many pubs about town -- some of the locals have ... hmmm ... abused the goodwill of many bartenders by ordering up samples, scribbling notes, and splitting. No tip. No thank yous. No real order. And, at the end of the day, samples are discretionary. Perhaps the bartend...
- Wed Aug 10, 2011 3:14 pm
- Forum: Homebrewing Recipes and Tips
- Topic: Where the heck to start?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5948
Howdy, The quick 'n' cheap way of doing things is something like this: 10l pot (so you can boil 5 or 6 litres of sugar water [wort] with room to contain the foam that'll form) 2 6 gallon fermenting buckets with lids (I've heard enough horror stories of people dropping glass carboys that I won't use ...
- Sun Jul 10, 2011 5:54 pm
- Forum: Homebrewing Recipes and Tips
- Topic: Five Star 5.2
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3033
I doubt it. I also let the probe sit in the wort as it was chilling. The pH drift going from 65 down to 22 / 23 wasn't particularly pronounced, certainly less than .3.cannondale wrote: Sounds like that 5 Star product may be doing a great job for you after all..
Any chance you'd be willing to use 5.2?
- Fri Jul 08, 2011 11:24 pm
- Forum: Homebrewing Recipes and Tips
- Topic: Five Star 5.2
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3033
So in summary, mash pH should be measured at mashing temperature (although the affect of temperature is minimal). Then, if you don't have an auto-correcting pH meter, you have to do a temperature correction for your measured pH. Except ... Many brewing sources assume that the optimal 5.2ish pH is w...
- Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:20 pm
- Forum: Homebrewing Recipes and Tips
- Topic: Five Star 5.2
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3033
Are you adjusting your PH readings to compensate for temperature? I drained off some wort for each reading and chilled to room temperature (apparently, the temperature of the mash is high enough to shorten the life of a probe). And, because I was anal about it, I kept the probe in the wort for seve...
- Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:39 am
- Forum: Homebrewing Recipes and Tips
- Topic: Five Star 5.2
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3033
Five Star 5.2
Hi folks, With a half wheat / half pils mash, Five Star 5.2 set the mash (using good ol' Toronto tap water) at 5.6 -- rigorously tested with a calibrated probe. Shortly after the mash started, the pH was 5.68. A few minutes later, 5.9. After the 5.2 was added (per instructions), 5.6. Added some more...
- Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:08 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: Flying Monkeys Alpha Fornication
- Replies: 37
- Views: 11740
This is the first year Ontario brewers have even had AIPA's on the Elsies general list. You must fatigue very easily. It's been pretty hard for me to get to the point of hop fatigue when these sorts of beers haven't been broadly available in Ontario. Well ... Durham Hop Addict (RateBeer scores goin...
- Wed Jun 29, 2011 6:39 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: Flying Monkeys Alpha Fornication
- Replies: 37
- Views: 11740
- Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:39 pm
- Forum: Homebrewing Recipes and Tips
- Topic: another Ontario online supply shop
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1598
I bought some quick disconnects and gypsum from them a few weeks ago as a trial run. My only beef is that the disconnects were packed loose with the packing material (lots of fiddly bits of foam to clean out -- having them packed in a baggie would've been better). On the other hand ... it's a Canadi...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:38 pm
- Forum: Homebrewing Recipes and Tips
- Topic: Chloramine in Toronto water
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6166
Hey fishnerd, just wanted to follow up that SN absolutely does not follow the pratice described in Zymurgy. They may add gypsum and/or calcium chloride, it depends on the recipe. For the Baltic Porter we added a touch of calcium chloride to soften things up, but that is it. And they do not use RO w...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:08 pm
- Forum: Homebrewing Recipes and Tips
- Topic: Chloramine in Toronto water
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6166
Re: Chloramine in Toronto water
Sierra Nevada's secret sauce is a mix of ~ 1tsp gypsum (CaSO4) and .25tsp calcium chloride (CaCl2) for a 5 gallon all-grain batch. Gypsum lowers the mash pH (a good thing) and helps with hop extraction in hop-forward beers, so you can play around with the salts to get a particular flavour profile. ...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:57 am
- Forum: Homebrewing Recipes and Tips
- Topic: Chloramine in Toronto water
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6166
Re: Chloramine in Toronto water
Hi All, Well I'm about to take the life changing plunge into homebrewing. To those who brew using TO water is the chloramine in TO water bad enough that you must use campden tabs? Thanks RO filters are not all that expensive -- something like this would come in at well less than $300 and last for y...