Recent content by bk082789

Anyone making a bona fide brew kettle like this yet? I'm intrigued, but I wanna be able to boil more than a gallon :)

Thanks for the input. I'm gonna give 'er hell!

So I have a Cream Stout that when I checked it last night there were some dead ants in the sanitizer in the airlock. My roommate expressed concern that they may have tracked in traces of chemicals from ant traps that we placed around the house last summer. I was planning on throwing...

I'm sure living in Iowa there's gotta be a farmer or two that would love to get his hand on your spent grains for feed. A lot of breweries in WI do that, probably on a much larger scale though.

I started brewing when I moved to my current resident with my roommate who's brewed for a few years. Our house happens to be bright purple so Purple Haus Brewing only seemed fitting. We're also recording engineers and while legally we can't sell our beer, it's rare one of our clients turns...

Are you dry hopping?

One can only hope!

The strangest thing was that it was only this batch. I've used the same caps with other batches and recycled bottles for all of my beers (about a dozen batches now) and this was the only beer that it happened with. I don't believe that the caps are oxygen absorbing (they were Brewer's Best...

I had this happen with a Cream Ale that I brewed. Great beer, but about 75% of them broke!!!! At first I thought it was the used bottles but I had three or four other batches and it was only the Cream Ale. I could hear when I began to pry the cap off a little cracking noise and by the end of...