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• Posted in thread: How much gravity will pawpaws add? on 06-01-2010 at 11:59 PM
  Got an email from a guy that I think would know what he's talking about... He says to be safe,
  assume that the pawpaws will add the same amount of fermentables per pound as grain because
  more or less,...

• Posted in thread: How much gravity will pawpaws add? on 05-31-2010 at 07:10 PM
  Every year in August I go to this huge music festival in the mountains in Southern West
  Virginia. I also usually brew up something special to share with friends I meet there. Seeing
  as how pawpaws are...

• Posted in thread: Did I just make a batch of bottle bombs? on 12-05-2009 at 08:03 PM
  Ok, good deal guys. I just had this fear in my mind that the yeast wasn't really done or have
  gone dormant in the cold bedroom and would continue to ferment once they got warm in the
  carbing process. ...

• Posted in thread: Did I just make a batch of bottle bombs? on 12-05-2009 at 02:04 AM
  So I brewed a Christmas Ale on Oct. 15th using:10lbs 2-row (may have substituted some 6-row in
  there, not sure now)1lbs cara-red1lbs Special B.5lbs honey malt.5lbs black roasted barleyabout
  10oz of mo...

• Posted in thread: Weird fermentation... on 10-13-2009 at 04:31 PM
  Ahh... I was hoping you'd say that. In the wild beer I have going I used wild yeast from pear
  skins and it had a similar smell, or rather feeling in my nose. Being paranoid, I didn't use
  any of the sa...

• Posted in thread: Weird fermentation... on 10-13-2009 at 04:13 PM
  I brewed a Christmas ale last night, with molasses and spices and such added during the boil,
  then I cooled it, put it in my bucket and pitched the yeast. Within 4 hours I had a few bubbles
  in the air...

• Posted in thread: Walk on the wildside - my wild yeast experiments on 09-13-2009 at 11:47 PM
  I forgot there is a wild yeast/lambic forum now, my bad!Mods, can you move this for me?

• Posted in thread: Walk on the wildside - my wild yeast experiments on 09-13-2009 at 09:10 PM
  I recently read Michael Jackson's Beer Companion and found myself fascinated with the
  descriptions of some of the Belgium brews and of porters fermented with bret. So... logically I
  began working with...

• Posted in thread: Ambient/Spontaneous Fermentation on 09-02-2009 at 01:40 AM
  Bummer... I was hoping for the verdict, just like everyone else I guess. I started a "wild"
  starter today. Lacking and orchard or a vineyard, I mashed wild blackberries from the yard in
  sugar water wi...

• Posted in thread: Spent Grain...Deer Bait?? on 01-06-2009 at 12:18 AM
  The mule deer in my backyard won't touch it. Maybe only whitetails like it or something. I live
  in the mountains outside Salt Lake City and we have plenty of animals that could eat the spent
  grain if ...