BeerTools Discussion Forum

OK I must be a moron but I couldn't find lactose in the "adjuncts" menu, used maltodextrine for calculation purposes instead...is it somewhere I'm not seeing?

sort of trendy these days and something I want to try. How can we do this with beertools? assume a first wort hop addition on first runnings, then a second batch sparge, so the first wort hop addition is maybe a half hour before reaching boil. I like to boil a solid 20 minutes before my 60 minute ho...

jeff--didn't see your reply. It's from Briess, 50L, here's a link to their product description: http://www.briess.com/pdf/Malthouse%20Products/Special%20Roast%20Malt%20WK/PIS%20BREW%20Special%20Roast%20Malt%20WK.pdf It says, useful for nut brown ales and Porters, but my homebrew guys recommended it ...

I think it would be nice if "Special Roast" was an available malt option. Seems like I use it a lot, and in a bunch of my recipes I substituted "Roasted Barley" which gives a much darker estimated color...lately I've switched to "British Crystal 55L" but that's still no...

I've gotten good results w/ a Canadian 2-row, "Craftbrewer's" pale malt from Great Western Malting as my base, using a very similar recipe to the one you've been given. I've lost the specs but it's highly modified and I believe about 2.5L in color....so, last batch (10 gal) was 12 lbs of t...

was just thinking about this the other day, coz some folks asked for a keg for their wedding...funny, we go thru these hoops for people used to drinking macro commercial product, not for ourselves... It occurs to me that commercial brewers cold-filter carbonated beer all the time. Wonder how they do...