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10-20-2011

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05-22-2013 8:16 AM

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ABOUT ME

City: Indiana
About Me: Hop Varieties On Hand: Citra, Nugget, Pacifica, Centennial, Falconers Flight, FF 7 C's, Simcoe, Cascade, Columbus.
General Interests: Cooking,brewing,gardening,music,mountain biking,amateur astronomy,reading.
Occupation: Could be worse.
Real Name: RO
Favorite Music: LCD Soundsystem, Tool, NIN, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Porcupine Tree, Marilyn Manson, lots and lot more.
Favorite Movies: Pulp Fiction, Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Departed, The Exorcist, Traffic
Favorite Television Shows: South Park, Dexter, Rome, Deadwood, Carnivale, The Office
Favorite Books: Foundation, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Dark Tower, The Saxon Stories
Home Brewing Biography: I've been brewing off and on for about 8 years, but I've been brewing a batch every 4 weeks for the last 2 years or so. Just started all-grain brewing finally in June 2012. This has been my goal for a long time; to drink 90-95% homebrew. Saves a lot of money (well, if you're just talking ingredients, I try not to think about the equipment investments I've made) but more importantly it is incredibly satisfying to create my own beer. Beers that I feel measure up to quality beers you find at the store. I'm also getting into mead making, with 4 separate gallons so far.
Future Brews: IPAs, Saison, Porter, Mead.
Primary: Cottage House (Citra) Saison
Kegged: Cascade IPA 6.3% Simcoe/Citra IPA 7.2%
Gender: Male
Status: Single

LATEST ACTIVITY

Posted in thread: Cottage House Saison on 05-16-2013 at 04:16 PM
I would give it a go with all Centennial, can't be bad. I am still waiting on my Citra batch to
be ready but I'm going to brew it again and hop it like an IPA with all Cascade.
Posted in thread: Cottage House Saison on 05-06-2013 at 10:44 PM
Well mine is down to 1.002. Added 12 oz honey after 6 days in the primary. Will probably
transfer in couple days to secondary, and dry hop with 1 oz Citra. I tasted my hydrometer
sample today, and it'...
Posted in thread: IPAdvice - secondary, dry hopping, clearing agents, grain profiles.... on 05-06-2013 at 08:59 PM
I like my IPA grain bills to be rather simple. 2 row, 8 oz of carapils, maybe some Munich 10,
anywhere from none to 12 oz, just depends on my mood, and that is really all I use. I like 0.4
- 0.5 oz of...
Posted in thread: Stout recipe--specialty malts 10%? on 04-27-2013 at 10:36 PM
I did a stout with:11 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 68.8 % 1 lbs Caramel/Crystal
Malt - 80L (80.0 SRM) Grain 6.3 % 1 lbs Victory Malt (25.0 SRM) Grain 6.3 % 1 lbs Roasted
Barley (Simpsons) ...
Posted in thread: Cottage House Saison on 04-27-2013 at 09:40 PM
I got my first batch of this into the fermenter today. Some modifications... I used Centennial
@ 60 and Citra @ 10 and 5. No pepper. Adding honey when primary starts to slow down. I'm
probably going t...
Posted in thread: Cottage House Saison on 04-21-2013 at 02:56 PM
Alright, I'm doing this within the next week. All Citra hops and I might omit the honey.
Depends on my OG. I'll add at the end of primary if I use it. Gonna make my starter of 3711
today.
Posted in thread: Mead Plunge on 04-17-2013 at 12:47 AM
Well, I will ride this gallon out obviously, and backsweeten. Also adding vanilla bean so
hopefully it will be pretty good anyway. I'll get something else for my other 2 gallons.
Thankfully Lalvin yea...
Posted in thread: Mead Plunge on 04-16-2013 at 06:28 PM
Why do you guys say not to use EC1118? I just started a gallon of mead with that yeast and I
have 2 more packs of it I was planning to use for 2 other gallons. I planned to backsweeten
them all.
Posted in thread: Joe's Ancient Orange Mead on 04-15-2013 at 06:20 PM
I made my first batch of this 3.5 months ago and its finally cleared and starting to get
drinkable. Still hot but I think another month or so, bottled and chilled it will be ready for
consumption. I d...
Posted in thread: CO2 Leak? on 04-02-2013 at 11:32 PM
So yesterday I ran out of CO2. This was pretty surprising to me because I just got a refill 2
kegs ago. The tank before this one lasted for 7 or 8 kegs... Two variables are that I got a new
regulator ...