markskar

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	957 reputation	bio	website	twitter.com/markskar	visits	member for	3 years, 4 months
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Apr 13	answered	What are good ways to reduce oxygen after racking a beer?
Apr 13	answered	Which malts have the highest SMM (precurser of DMS) content?
Apr 13	answered	Yeasty Tasting Pale Ale
Apr 13	comment	Yeasty Tasting Pale Ale Which yeast strain? How long did you ferment for?
Feb 10	awarded	Revival
Jan 3	comment	Beer Lost Through Blow Off Tube Whatever your solution, Northern Brewer Chris makes a good point in recommending Fermcap-S. The stuff is amazing. Also great for preventing boil-overs during the boil.
Jan 3	comment	When should you measure and adjust mash pH? Personally, I'd wait to get into water chemistry until I had a few batches under my belt, unless you suspect there to be problems with your water source. It's a giant can of worms that you may wish to hold off on for your first all grain batch. There are so many other things to worry about, and you'll be left wondering if your changes to the water affected the outcome in good or bad ways. That said, if you feel like you have a good handle on the elements involved in adjusting the water chemistry, by all means have at it. Just saying that personally I'd hold off on it.
Jan 3	answered	Brewers on Twitter
Jan 3	awarded	Yearling
Dec 23	comment	Cleaning bottles - What's a good cleaning agent? Tobi, I just follow the instructions as to how much to use (not sure off-hand). Doesn't take much though!
Dec 19	answered	Cleaning bottles - What's a good cleaning agent?
Nov 9	comment	Kegging at basement temperature Brewchez is right--you gotta get it nice and cold first. Besides, if you're going to be kegging, aren't you going to want a kegerator? I recommend checking to see if there is a freecycle community in your area (www.freecycle.org). I got my fridge for free, holds two corny kegs nicely with extra room for the CO2 tank.
Nov 9	comment	Can Star San kill yeast in the secondary carboy? If you have uneven carbonation between different bottles from the same batch you may have had uneven levels of priming sugar in the bottling bucket. Might help to stir up the batch after adding the priming sugar to make sure it is distributed evenly.
Oct 28	answered	Can Star San kill yeast in the secondary carboy?
Oct 25	answered	should i stir this (possibly stuck) batch or not?
Oct 25	accepted	Aging a naturally carbonated ale that was bottled from a keg
Oct 25	comment	Aging a naturally carbonated ale that was bottled from a keg I read a few other things that have led me to agree with you. The barleywine has been kegged and carbed. Going to let it settle out even further, pour out any settled yeast, and then bottle when it's crystal clear. Thanks for the response, marking this one answered.
Oct 20	comment	Growlers v 12oz Bottles Bill has explained this well. It's also worth mentioning that in the initial fermentation process that the fermenting wort expels enough CO2 to keep out the unwanted microbes (Ken mentions that it was done this way during the "initial fermentation", so I'm assuming it was transferred to a sealed container or bottled after this). After a few days to a week of the initial fermentation, however, the chances of microbes getting in increases greatly.
Oct 20	comment	Aging a naturally carbonated ale that was bottled from a keg I'd mark this correct except that my understanding of the yeast is that is isn't dead, per se, but is rather "dormant". Those bottles of "the world's oldest drinkable beer" that they found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea are said to have "living yeast cultures" inside (story here: cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/03/baltic.sea.beer/… ). That said, my understanding is that yeast can act upon the hop oils and cause them to degrade over time, thus bringing out more of the malt flavor. I could be mistaken about this, however...
Oct 14	comment	What kinds of beers are there that don't use hops? What about Tej, African beer made with gesho root instead of hops. I've seen some places calling it "honey wine" and others calling it "honey beer". Dogfish Head calls it a honey beer on their Bitches Brew label. I've seen recipes with and without barley, wheat and other grains...