Brewed the Märzen today missed my expected OG by .002(low side)

Brewing part of the RCE with RayYankee doing the Märzen. Waiting on it to boil now missed by pre-boil by .002 but I also ended up with a little more liquid so it still works out to a 73% efficiency in the mash.

I bottled a fiver of True Brew's Red Rye

works fine on a PC

Keep your ABV to around 4% even an APA should be ready quick as a wheat

How are you defining the parameters for you Landbier? To me that means - some kind of local session beer - and anything else is just whatever it is they happen to like wherever that local happens to be. Standard infusion mash, step mash, or decoction(s)? I honestly had a ton of fun doing a marzen w...

We decided to do a couple. First a Märzen then a Landbier

Thanks Dave

I found a bottle (740ML Coopers PET) with no beer in it. It clearly did have beer in it once, and said beer was clearly dried up on the bottom of the box. So like a bottle bomb. Except the bottle is intact. And the cap was on. I squeezed bottle and it resisted my squeezing like a capped bottle. And...

Rayyankee a pm has been sent.

mashani wrote:This doesn't work when your bowling with Baptists. Just saying.

Baptists are like cats...You know they raise hell, you just can't catch 'em at it.

I cracked open the first Bragget tonight. I guess it ain't quite ready as it is carbed but not to the level I was going for. I guess the higher alcohol content is retarding the yeasts production. Other than slightly undercarbed tastes very good with the ginger and cinnamon dominating, color is a lig...

Just bottled an American Wheat

Got 'em on DVD. I've been watching since the second episode was originally aired ( I was 11). Didn't know about it till one of my cousins ask if I watched that new space show last week...I am a trekkie(original fan), not a trekker(second generation fans that didn't like trekkie, sounds to much like ...

Congrats, Dave!