Recent content by chibrewer

So far I have no idea what their budget is. From what they've told me, they have investors lined up to back the venture, they just want me to specify the set up I would need to make it happen and they'll foot the bill. As far as the legal part, I know they're in the process of getting all the...

Hey guys, So I think I need some fellow brewers to confirm what I'm already thinking. I was recently approached by a group of people who are in the process of opening a restaurant, and they want to incorporate some house brewed beers into their plans. They loved my homebrew, so they want me...

Once again, thank goodness for Homebrewtalk. I just got my turkey fryer to go all grain for Christmas, and I started to get a little bit worried about brewing on my deck after reading all of the manufacturer's warnings. My wife is already slightly dubious about this idea...ceramic tiles are a...

Hi all, I've been brewing with extract for about two years now and would love to make the jump into AG, however, I don't really want invest in new equipment (MLT, larger brewpot etc., my current stuff already takes up enough room in my small condo). But I was reading something by Randy Mosher...

Double checked my hydrometer reading after letting it sit for a few more days, and it hadn't moved. Bottled last Thursday and the few sips that I took tasted great. I'm guessing the bubbling was just being caused by temp change/vibrations etc. I'll crack open the first bottle in a few weeks...

Awesome, thanks for the advice guys. I took another hydro reading today and its sitting right at 1.012, which is right on target for my FG. I'll give it a couple of days and take another reading just to be sure, but hopefully I can get this batch bottled sooner rather than later. I'm getting...

I would say that it could be due to temperature because it did warm up here recently, but then it cooled back down and its still going.

I brewed a belgian trippel about five weeks ago. If I remember correctly the kit included six pounds of DME and two pounds of candy sugar which got me to an OG just north of 1.07. So now I'm wanting to bottle but every time I check on my fermenter I'm still seeing the occasional bubble out of...

This was a timely post. I just bottled a batch last weekend and because of an excessive amount of hop gunk (due to my own carelessness) I pretty much had to run my beer through a makeshift filter to clear it up. It splashed a lot at the time, but it's good to know that if I drink it relatively...

I used the regular amount of priming sugar, between 5 and 5.5 ounces for the batch. I'm wondering if my explosion had more to do with temperature than anything. I left town for a few days and left the air conditioning off in my apartment so I'm sure it got mighty warm. I put the rest of this...

I don't think they use twist-off's but I could be wrong. I try to immediatly recycle any twist off bottles so I don't accidentally re-use them. I'd go check but I'm at work right now. As for the explosion, it actually broke the glass. The majority of the bottle stayed intact, but the bottom...

I've been brewing for about a year, and I just had my first ever bottle bomb. I'm a little curious about this because so far only one bottle has exploded. The entire batch is somewhat overcarbonated, when I uncap them I get a little foam coming out the top, but they're not gushing by any means...

As a follow up to this thread, during the winter i normally just ferment in my aparment since it stays pretty cool and in the summer I was planning to use a swamp cooling technique and fermenting in my basement. The problem being that my basement is three floors down and I don't always want to...

The coupon isn't only for a kit but it's 20% off of any one item, so if I buy a kit I can get a little more bang for my buck...sucks being poor. Thanks for the advice guys.

I want to buy a kit for my next batch because I have a 20% off coupon for my LHBS and I'm kind of cheap. But what I'm wanting to brew is a really aromatic/floral IPA. Think Sprecher's Hop on Top if you've ever had it. So I'm thinking about just brewing the Brewer's Best IPA kit and then dry...