Recent content by boilerbrewer

28,702 + 4 gals American IPA = 28,706 gals

I just did an American wheat for my SIL's pharmacy school graduation party. I'm not really a fan of more than a pint or two of wheats, but I promised whatever she wanted.

+5 gallons American wheat =14,940

+1 to this method. I've been doing this and bottling isn't a chore anymore. Sent from my XT907 using Home Brew mobile app

Once, in college, I came home from the bars on a cold January night, to see a couple of guys pissing off of their balcony onto my roommate's car (he had just gotten out of the army and joined us as a 22 year old freshman). I informed him of the shenanigans. He immediately grabbed a roll of paper...

Another +1 for Bru'n Water.

Working on the moving process myself. The realtor has already told me (many times over) that we have too much stuff, which in includes my beer room. Now we're a month out from going on the market, and I'm making choices about what stuff to put in storage. Fortunately, the only thing on my house...

21970 + 5 gal of cream ale = 21975

I got a crankandstein 2a, and it is great. I recommend it.

You can batch sparge and just collect your runnings in a bucket, thus only requiring a single kettle.

Check out the bottling tips for the homebrewer sticky on the bottling/ kegging forum. That info has definitely smoothed out my bottling process.

I have done cherries in the secondary before. I used fresh ones that I washed ( with water), pitted, and froze. I then just thawed them out and racked my beer on top of them. I didn't do anything to sanitize. The pH and alcohol content of the finished beer are pretty unfavorable conditions for...

+1 to AIC

+3 centenniel/cascade pale ale =13,796.5

When your wife is at a conference and brings you this back as a souvenir