Started my first homebrew yesterday.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

yea but trappist ales are an entirely different kind of beer, brewed warm with a different kind of yeast. not saying yeast doesn't have an affect on taste, it does but my understanding is that trappists get an inordinate amount of taste from the yeast. much more than most beer.

i never thought a beer could be creamy and delicious, but the one i tried was fuging great

i definitely prefer the stronger flavor of imports and microbrews, and especially a good smooth homebrew, despite the artfag label that gets attached to it

blows my mind when people follow up a shot of patrone with a natty ice :\

but the smoothest best tasting homebrews i've had, there was always 1/8th or 1/4th an inch of settle on the bottom

[mmmbeans]

<artfag.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

i guess you could say i think the settle at the bottom helps buffer the flavor and body, no matter the brewing process

but really that's all speculation on my part

ph and all that technical jazz as far as it matters too

[mmmbeans]

i guess you could say i think the settle at the bottom helps buffer the flavor and body, no matter the brewing process

but really that's all speculation on my part

ph and all that technical jazz as far as it matters too

it probably does given that a lot of that settle is hops and whatnot. all i'm saying is that while i like unfiltered beers, some of my favorites are filtered. They aren't my favorites BECAUSE they're filtered, they just happen to be filtered. Filtering makes beer different and if you have a strong flavor to the beer it makes less of a difference. I haven't ever found that i err on the side of filtered or non-filtered. ive never really noticed a huge difference. that being said, I don't drink a lot of heffes or trappists. I drink strong, bitter beers, things that would generally overpower the subtle yeast flavors anyway.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

even then it seems like a little settle would make a dark beer even more bitter

i don't drink many dark beers, since they're usually out of my price range, or not really worth it if they are within budget

but i will happily drink corona, which i admit would be a drastically different beer with settle, i enjoy the crisp light flavor on occasion

but that's not exactly what i'm looking for with homebrew, i want something with a little more meat on it

[Kettle]

I have a bottling bucket, with a nozzle. I guess that I could siphon into a strainer and into the other bucket.

Yes

[mmmbeans]

not dark... bitter, hoppy. dark beers are more often sweet.

for the price of corona you can get actually good beer.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

when its on sale?

which happens pretty often

[CharlotteBeer.com]

I think you're supposed to let that yeast settle, and then make sure not to siphon it out when you "rack it" into your secondary bucket or bottling bucket. If a little gets in, it's no big deal. You can always pour your beer in such a way as to leave the sediment in the glass.

[mmmbeans]

http://forum.northernbrewer.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=103825

an answer to your question.