Recent content by CharlieK

mattldm, any tips/grain bills that I can take a look at? I'm still not comfortable making my own bill from scratch so any reference point would be useful, even though the fruit levels will be way different. whatsleftofyou, good point. I might end up doing that. I'm going to feel tempted to...

I've been browsing the forums and can't seem to find anything quite what I'm looking for in the recipe world. My goal is basically this: A refreshing and crisp wheat/witbier with the addition of fruit (specifically lychee fruit, it's a very subtle flavor that I kind of equate to strawberry so...

Thanks everyone. I wasn't even thinking about the excess head-space causing that much of an issue (and unfortunately I don't have any access to CO2 to fill). I guess I'll hold off on experimenting until I'm better equipped with a couple of smaller secondary containers.

rudu81, What's the big concern with extra headspace? I don't really have anything smaller to put it in. Won't the fermentation from adding the berries push out excess oxygen?

So I should be good dumping the frozen berries in directly? I don't want to get some kinda infection. I just picked up frozen berries in a bag instead of something canned, hence my concern.

LUCKY! All I got was a less-heavy wallet....

After getting a couple brews under my belt, I've decided I'm going to experiment a little with half of my 5 gallons of stout that just passed the 2 week mark in the primary (2 weeks, 3 days to be exact). I'm checking the gravity again tonight to see if it's fallen at all but if it's steady then...

I have a partial-grain stout in my primary right now. The instructions said about 10 days but I checked the gravity last night after 2 weeks and am going to leave it an extra week since it's not quite there yet. So basically, check the gravity and decide. My first brew, an amber, I...

Congrats! I'm about to put my first stout (my second brew ever as well) in to seconday this weekend on top of some raspberries and then I'm thinking about adding some chocolate at bottling. Let us know how it turns out.

I've been doing the same thing with my first brew, but I actually made it a whole week before cracking open my first brew ever. Since then I've been pretty good about waiting (but did have one while brewing my second batch). I'm coming up on a week and a half without one though, according to the...

I'm hooked on post-it notes. I've only done an extract and a partial so far but what I've been doing is putting the bags of ingredients on the table in order of when I'm supposed to add them, then I put a post-it at the edge of the table summarizing each step. It's really helpful because my...

I wish we had basements in Florida! Awesome work. I'm hoping someday to do an outside bar at my place but it won't be anything near this epic!

I'm digging that logo and art style a lot. Let us know how the final labels turn out!

Hops are green. Not sure if that's what's causing the color (I'm pretty new to this) but just a thought.

One of my new favorite hobbies :mug: