Recent content by Bittertooth

My cascades in Newport are up too. My three plants have about eight shoots apiece, and the tallest shoots are about two feet already!

My Cascades have about 2 or 3 inches of new shoots popping out of the ground. Planted 'em last spring but got no cones last year. Hoping for a first crop this year.

I've seen this in places but am ignorant as to the reason for it. Just brewed a Helles by using one of Jamil's recipes, and he calls for a 60 minute boil. What advantage does a 90 minute boil offer, aside from an extra 30 min to enjoy a HB?

DFH India Brown clone Belgian Wit (friends and family favorite) Orfy's Old Speckled Hen clone

Last May I was planning on brewing two beers: a California Common and a Scottish 80/. I had crushed the grains in anticipation of brew day when I had to rush my pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth two months early (!). Brewing plans were scrapped for about eight months. Baby is...

I brewed a DFH India Brown clone with some Nugget hops on President's Day. Was gonna call it Big Brown Nugget, but my brother wants me to call it Big Brown President. Brooklyn had a beer called Hop Obama. Discontinued.

Seems like your proportions might be off. Do you mean 1/4 oz cara pils? Also, I would bump up the percentage of two-row. Color now might be a deep mahogany, and your ABV is going to be light.

Well, the issue is now moot. Since I now own a turkey fryer, I'm heading outside to use it. Probably will speed up the process too as my stove took forever to boil 7 gallons of wort.

So, SWMBO recently decreed that brewing in the kitchen was verboten. She thinks the steam produced will have a detrimental effect on the old timbers of our house, which was built in 1792. I was wondering about it myself. Do any of you engineers out there know if the steam could be...