Recent content by Aylmer

Steve! Why do you leave me hanging like this?

I simply taste test until I like it. Anything over month seems a bit excessive, though

My blackberry wheat ale has reached week three. So far, one week of being bottled I popped one and it sounded like a gunshot. The beer in its entirety turned to foam and after 5 minutes settled back into a yummy liquid state. I went ahead and placed the beers outside for fear of explosive...

sweet thanks revvy

Thanks guys. I've decided to try whatever barley has the least amount of alterations at my local feed store. There's really only one way to find out if it works, I guess

Yes sir. I know the dynamics of the process, but the only reason I'm doing this is to cut costs ergo buying 50+ lbs. at my local feed shop. Is it safe to do this?

Am I able to use unmalted barley grains from a feed store? It's about 80% cheaper than at my lhbs. If so, what type of barley should i buy? Food-grade seems to be nonexistent at every feed store I've visited.

Gracias fellas. I will not rack to secondary and just add some more priming sugar and recap and wait, what, two weeks?. Carbonation drops are expensive at my lhms. And exactly how much priming sugar should I add to each bottle? I've only used the boil and pour in the batch method.

During bottling, I have the simplest and most primitive method of siphoning. Yes, I suck and use my thumb as a stopper. During my last batch, the beer would splash on the bottom of the bottles, releasing every last bubble of carbonation. Now, two weeks after having been bottled I tried my...