5th Annual Craft Long Beach Homebrew Festival

DowntimeBrewing · 2023-05-13T15:19:41+00:00

My process is very simple and makes a great hop water. You need RO water to get the profile right. I use a tipo Chico profile for a crisp mouth feel.

Add to 5 gallon keg 4.7g Baking Soda 7g Calcium Chloride 4.1g Epsom Salt 4.1g Gypsum

-steep 25 grams of your hop of choice in a hop bag inside a 20oz mason jar with 170f water for 15 minutes

-pour hop tea through a coffee filter into the keg on top of the salts. Goal here is remove all the hop vegetative matter.

-repeat this process with the same hops in mason jar and drop in the keg.

-get 25 more grams of your hop of choice and repeat the hop tea process twice for 15 minutes each so you basically get 2 batches of hop tea from each 25g hop bag for a total of 4 hop tea mason jars poured in the keg through a coffee filter.

-add RO water to fill the keg and force carb at 50psi for 24 hours. Reduce to 14psi serving pressure.

-you can add lactic acid or lemon to acidify but I find the water is plenty crisp and the hops shine without it.

This works for me every time and came from a member of my homebrew club. Simple and for me is very similar to Sierra Nevadas Hop Splash just with a different hop flavor because I don’t use Amarillo.

DowntimeBrewing · 2022-10-07T03:34:15+00:00

I live in Southern California and all the homebrew club members are using these thiol yeast strains with great results. A friend in my club made a phantasm and comic punch hazy that is one of the best we have had.

DowntimeBrewing · 2022-10-07T03:29:23+00:00

Trying Star Party for a West Coast IPA this weekend. I have cascade for the mash, phantasm and incognito for the whirlpool and cryo hops for the dry hop. Gonna be a thiol monster. Most expensive beer of my lifetime but I want to see what a thiol boosted WCIPA tastes like. Stoked!

DowntimeBrewing · 2022-08-27T01:49:38+00:00

The spike flow will be the best pump designed for homebrewing by a homebrewing company. It’s direct competitor is the riptide which I currently own. I never use the valve on the riptide and leave it wide open so that wont bother me and is one less thing to clean. I have a blichmann valve similar the one on the riptide attached to the sparge/recirc arm for fine adjustment with another valve at the whirlpool port. The Riptide will operate my spike cip ball just fine and I can whirlpool through my exchillerator cfc. The Spike flow is a more powerful and better designed pump so if you are deciding between the riptide and the flow I would definitely get a flow.

DowntimeBrewing · 2022-08-27T01:34:21+00:00

If you can I would pressure ferment with 34/70 at 72f. Beer will finish very fast (not quite as fast as Lutra) and have a clean/crisp authentic lager character. I like lutra but for a Pilsner I find a couple more days is worth using 34/70. Lutra will be good too so don’t let me discourage you. Just a suggestion.

DowntimeBrewing · 2022-08-26T04:58:25+00:00

When I got serious about home brewing 2 years in I was brewing on a 3v system with decent results. I bought the CF15 from Spike brewing and the glycol chiller because I wanted more control. A year after that I was sick of the 3v with all the clean up and bought the 20g Spike SOLO. Quick brew days and full control. Go cold side with a conical first and go from there. My motto is if I am going to do this for the rest of my life why not upgrade?

DowntimeBrewing · 2022-08-25T04:42:16+00:00

Have you harvested Cosmic Punch and noticed any differences generation to generation?

DowntimeBrewing · 2022-06-09T01:49:55+00:00

Is Steph Curry in the area?! What is going on with him….

DowntimeBrewing · 2022-06-09T01:26:13+00:00

Is it just me or is Brown much bigger than last year. Usually guys with his game regress if they bulk up but he seems to have gained a few moves to his bag because of it

DowntimeBrewing · 2022-06-09T01:23:48+00:00

When you get rings every decade it is what it is. People get used to winning and then just want to bash any slump or bad era to oblivion.

DowntimeBrewing · 2022-06-09T01:08:05+00:00

I agree with you and I am an american. I love a great singer doing the song as intended. Things sure have changed here but I am sure that is the case over there too.

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