Recent content by Bandit-brewer

If you have the ability to leave the bines after harvest do so for at least the first 2-3 years. This will help the roots significantly. In the spring before they are going to come up again remove the bines and clean up.

None of you know what winter is. I live 14 hours north of the border in Northern British Columbia. 18 hours of darkness in the winter and minus 40C or more. The summers more than make up for it all plus I love the snow and all the fun that can be had with it. I brew in my unheated shed with the...

Hard at work again. Almost ready to fix peoples wounds just need breakfast first. Didn't do any brewing this weekend but i'm going to need to soon. Have a great day people.

I enjoy the artistic side of it. I've done kits and just bottled one last night actually but my first wine was a dandelion that i created from scratch. I have some rhubarb and saskatoons that i'm going to do small batches with. I brew beer, cider, and mead so it seemed to fit. My wife would...

Back at work making sure everyone is safe. I'm a first aid attendant as well as storekeeper. The double time is nice and im trying to beat the hours i did last year to get even farther ahead on bills and life. Hope everyone has a good and safe sunday. Enjoy

A rare sunday that im not working. Its -23c right now and at 8:30 the sun still hasnt made an entrance. Im looking after 4 munchkins while the wife and her friend do some tuff mudder training. Once they are done i can go to the gym. If got kegs to clean and a brown ale to keg. A baych of wine to...

I got the recipe from bbq pitboys on youtube. They are large onions cut into rings then wraped in thin-regular cut bacon then low and slow on the smoker for an hour or two till the bacon is nice and constricted. Then let them cool, batter in a nice thick beer batter and fry till golden brown...

Welcome fellow canadian. The obsession is a deep hole of fun. Enjoy.

Doing baby backs and bacon wraped onion rings on my UDS this weekend. Not sure what i'll do as another side or two. Should be fun it's supposed to be -25C this weekend. I'll run the smoker while I brew a pilsner and a pale ale.

Did a partigile today. Bigfoot barley wine and a little foot ale. Turned out good just waiting for things to cool before the yeast.

Doing a bigfoot barley wine with a partigile. Probably sunday cause im busy the next 2 days.

Back at work for me. I had a glorious half day off yesterday (got called in). If the money wasn't worth it I'd for damn sure be at home. The bright side for me is today is paying for my new Browning 12g. Hope everyone is doing something they want to do and enjoying the day. Ryan

Its almost 9 am and the sun hasnt started yet. I know its about -10c out. Today is bottling, kegging and brewing day. Got a batch of apple cream to bottle, a koyt to keg and i've been asked by several people in town to do a gluten free so i will give it a go for them. Enjoy your day.

The drop in temp was completely uninsulated. I need to come up with a way of insulating that doesn't anger the wife. I brew out in my unheated shed in deep northern bc canada. (so it gets cold). I have some gelatin and different clearing agents at home for wine so I will give that a try. Next...

Both were at 152. They droped to 144 by the end of the hour. I was wondering and have read that I should do a 90min mash to help with conversion. I'm using the same grind as before which was already very tight. I end up with about 1/3 in flour. I'll go longer next time and if the amylase shows...