Homebrewing For The Uninitiated And Brave
Should you put olive oil in your homebrew?
Why use olive oil in your homebrew?
Your yeast need oxygen for a happy and healthy fermentation. Yeast use oxygen during the lag phase to synthesize sterols and unsaturated fatty acids for its cell walls. If there is not enough oxygen, the yeast can not grow and die off [...]
No matter how many recipes I try, I always come back to the one I make best, my bitter amber. It’s in the secondary now, and if everything goes right, I’ll drink the first one by the end of the month. As always, here’s the qbrew files:
http://quantifier.org/qbrew/bitter.qbrew
http://quantifier.org/qbrew/bitter.html
http://quantifier.org/qbrew/bitter.pdf