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- I am a do it yourselfer. I am a beer lover. Its only natural that I make my own beer.
- Brewing,Sports,Poker,Traveling
- Brian
- Rock/Classic Rock/Metal
- Goodfellas, Dumb and dumber, Big Lebowski, Step brothers, Nacho Libre
- Seinfeld, Curb, Family guy, The Office
- My wife bought me a starter kit for Christmas 2 years ago. Started brewing the pre-made extract kits, read a few homebrewing books and have been spying on people in this forum for ideas about all grain recipes and equipment setups. Now with more than a dozen AG batches under my belt I am starting to branch out and make my own recipes and clone some of my favorite craft beers. I have learned so much from HBT and encourage all brewers to join.
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Pumpkin IPA,
90 minute clone,
A BIG stout -
90 minute clone
Maris Otter IPA -
Black ale
Pale ale
Witbeer
Westverletern clone,
Apfelwein - Male
- Married
- Hillsborough
- North Carolina
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Posted in thread: Should I make a cider or a Mead? on 11-23-2012 at 09:34 PM
Kinda late here but did you end up using craisins? My buddy gave me #7 of dried crans that I
was thinking of putting in my mead...Posted in thread: secondary temps on 07-04-2012 at 03:00 PM
ive always secondaried @ room temps for ales. never a problem.Posted in thread: Help me get weird with this double IPA on 07-02-2012 at 11:45 PM
Id use em all too! If its too hoppy, which is almost impossible, it will always become more
subdued as it ages.Posted in thread: What are you drinking now? on 01-14-2012 at 01:42 AM
Ruthless rye IPA. Black cannon on deck...Posted in thread: Re-pitch @ 1.030? on 12-18-2011 at 08:36 PM
Hmmm interesting... ive been looking into what yeasts people use in this situation and havent
found much info. Have you done this before? Did it alter the taste any?Posted in thread: Re-pitch @ 1.030? on 12-18-2011 at 06:56 PM
Fermentation was steady @ 68 F. I crash cooled 3 days ago and the beer was prob 50 F when I
took my reading this morning. I plugged this into Beersmith and the corrected gravity is 1.029.
I might just...Posted in thread: Re-pitch @ 1.030? on 12-18-2011 at 06:26 PM
Well im thinking of just adding another packet of 04 and see what happens.Posted in thread: Re-pitch @ 1.030? on 12-18-2011 at 06:11 PM
Yes actually i meant to add that my mash temps were higher than i wanted; 153. So the yeast is
prob done huh?Posted in thread: Re-pitch @ 1.030? on 12-18-2011 at 05:56 PM
Brewed a 90 minute (AG) clone 3 weeks ago. OG was 1.080. So today I was going to botttle it,
took a gravity reading and it was 1.030. I used 2 packets of S-04 and Beersmith projected my FG
@ 1.017. Sh...Posted in thread: Attn NC brewers! New homebrew shop in Hillsborough on 12-17-2011 at 11:06 PM
Nash st. homebrew just opened up in Hillsborough NC! Apparently the owners of the Wooden Nickel
pub and Mystery brewing co. have teamed up to start a LHBS. I went there yesterday and theyre
setup is p...
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