Recent content by cm_laflamme

For equipment it's nearly impossible for your LHBS to beat or even match the online prices, so I would suggest going that route for the equipment purchases if you don't have everything already. For everything else I use my LHBS. I've found that the price are about the same as you would pay...

So you're saying every time you have to measure something by eyeball it doesn't wind up about an inch and a half short? Maybe it's just me then.

It's extract with specialty grains. My concern was whether having 2 gallons (give or take) of top off water per fermenter was going to be an issue.

So in typical male fashion I thought my equipment was bigger than it actually is. I picked up the ingredients for a 10gal batch, and only have a 30qt pot. Problem is theres a bunch of specialty grains and they're mixed together and already milled. With boiloff I'm looking at somewhere around 4...

You should stop by the test shop at the CIF sometime.

Currently have a watermelon ale in the primary, was aiming for something with a slight watermelon finish. While the beer is pretty delicious the watermelon was a bit more subdued than I would've liked. The recipe was as follows: 6lb Briess Pilsen Light DME 1lb honey at flameout 1oz Citra @60...

Thanks for the advice. How strong of a watermelon flavor will I be looking at with the hallertauer or perle hops? I'm going for something almost like a #9 type fruit flavor where the beer is more pronounced than the fruit, but slighty fruitier than that and I want to be able to detect the...

Just bottled a batch that I'm wicked excited for, however I have a couple of questions. My LHBS didn't have Amarillo hops so I substituted Centennial. Also due to circumstances I wound up dry hopping for 9 vice 7 days. So my questions are, for someone unfamiliar with the differences between hop...

Trying to make my first recipe from scratch, need a little help to make sure I'm going to wind up with something drinkable. My goal is simple, create a summer beer that will invoke a 4th of July cookout. By that I mean I want it to be a lighter bodied beer, with a watermelon nose, and a hops...

I'll preface this by saying I appreciate any assistance anyone can provide. I'm a prior extract brewer, looking to get back into homebrewing and want to make the switch to AG. The problem is that through several moves in the past couple years I've lost pretty much all of my equipment. I...