Recent content by ahoym8e

any reason why I shouldn't split up my sweetwort extraction and my boil? I would like to break it up into two evenings... Thanks

what??? I don't get it.

My last 3 batches I have added about 1.3 (packed) cups of organic brown sugar to the secondary. I boiled the sugar in the water I used to top off my secondary after transferring from primary. I was real pleased with the flavor results of the first 2 (one AAPA, and a dry hopped munich dunkel...

Well, you'll need 2 hyrometers. Tap one of them on a table (like a pencil) until the paper with the scales on it moves all the way to the fat end. Use that one to measure OG. Take another hydrometer and tap it on the table until the paper moves up to the end of the skinny side. Use that one to...

so aren't spent grains totally devoid of nutrition? Can't animals die of malnutrition form eating spent grains? just curious.

what's everyones favorite yeast? I used to really like WL cali V, but it crapped out on me several times in a row and stopped fermenting and 1.020 ~ 1.015. So I switched to WL german/koelsch, and while it ferments down a little lower, it doesn't compact nicely a the bottom of the...

Man, I thought this thread would really take off. I thought it was the funniest thing I had written in months. I guess no-one appreciates a good troll job around here... :D anyway, :tank:

I have been trying to sparge with this Phil's sparge contraption that spins as the HL is passing through it. It works pretty well, and I have hit efficiencies in the low to mid 70's Something that's bothered me though is that is squeaks for like an hour when I am sparging. I've tried cleaning...

I had 7 lbs of pilsener 4 lbs munich 1/2 lb german dark crystal 1/4 lb german medium crystal 1/4 lb german melanoidin and came up exactly 5 gallons of wort with OG of 1.065 (temp corrected). seems pretty good to me, especially since the grains were milled like 3 or 4 weeks ago or so...

I am sure it was not contamintation, just bottling too early. I bought another carboy, so now I won't be tempted to bottle too early for want of another secondary. i dryhop by "dissolving" hop pelets in a wee bit of boiling water and add it to the secondary. I have a hop bag that I will...

Crap, my prized munich dunkel brown sugar boosted dryhopped ale was bottled too early. grolsch bottles now open with tremendous force, flinging ceramic top across room. beer comes out as solid foam. it had bubbled away for 2 weeks in secondary, never really slowing down it's bubbling. FG...

so I've heard several people say they stopped drinking Soda. I drink at least 36 oz of Diet mt dew every day, and often at least one or 2 MONSTER sugar free energy drinks. Diet soda doesn't count as soda, right? I rarely eat much for breakfast. I eat salad every weekday at lunch, but it...

Dang, I've gained 10 lbs since I started brewing. that is really dissappointng, given how much I enloy brewing. anyone have any good solutions to the weight gain? (besides diet and excercise :D ).

Man, that stinks... i just used a bunch of Chinook to bitter my everyday pilsener swill with... poop. :( Since I am going to drink it anyway I'll report back on the headache factor.

I submit that those only brewing their own high quality beers are doing half a job. buy 10 lbs of 2 row, 1/2 lb of cara pils, some cheap hops (or use what you have left over) and reuse some yeast. This = 5 gallons of quality drunkeness for like 15 bucks. no way can you buy the same volume of...