Recent content by bneshe01

You ever come out with a commercial version of your beer? Correct me if I'm wrong but I could get some blue corn grits and form it into balls and roll the balls around in my mouth to get the fermentables for this beer? I'm in the same city as you and would love to try this sometime. Down for a...

A little thin/lite. Should have used more DME perhaps. Not a bad flavor. I like gruits in theory but never had any that many that tasted any good (Faroch heather ale being the exception). Didn't even expect this to be drinkable so I'll count it a success.

Was gonna do all corn. Not use whole kernals but corn meal use a little water to form into nice balls and stick them in my mouth and move them around with my tongue while watching the tube. Maybe find some nice heirloom variety and grind it in a coffee grinder. I'll post a brew log for sure if I do.

Bumping this. Considering making some myself. Anyone ever do the saliva on cornmeal method to convert the star ches?

Eh, I've done alot worse. Made metheglins that noone would drink and didn't even taste good as a chicken marinade and no amount of aging helped. This week did an expired Mr. Beer West Coast Pale Ale batch I added DME, mugwort, heather, honey and used nottingham yeast with. Thinking of adding...

Someone gave me a Mr. Beer kit and I've been reading the Buhner book and decided to try an experiment. Not too optimistic about how this will turn out though. Mugwort heather pale ale Mr beer west coast pale ale hme (expired 10/13) 1 oz dried mugwort 1 oz heather 1 cup honey 1/2 cup dme...