Recent content by cosmotini

Now I'm curious. Where did the brewing words and terms come from? Wort, Trub, Mash, Racking cane (sounds painful, if you're a guy), etc. Anyone know? Dennis

I have trouble with "wert" too. I say it as I see it and I see "wort". :D Regards, Dennis

Brewed on the 6th, bottled on the 14th and I just opened the first bottle on the 21st! I was delightfully surprised at how GOOD this stuff tastes! Beautiful color, nice head, not too cloudy. Good carbonation but not like commercial beer where it can be too carbonated for my tastes...

Hi everyone, I just finished with boiling the wort and getting it into the fermenter. I am using a Brewer's Best English Brown Ale kit. The wort smells like cross between a strong tea and baked yams. Pretty good, actually! It's fermenting away now, I hope. Will keep you posted on...

I checked with the place I got the beermaking kit and wort chiller from. The owner designed the chiller and has it manufactured to his specs. He said it's a "kind of" counterflow chiller in that the wort runs through the copper tubing but instead of the tubing being in a jacket and...

It's my understanding there are two types of wort chillers, immersion and counterflow. The immersion chller sits in the wort and cold water is run through the copper coil? With the counterflow chiller, the cold water/ice is outside the coil and the wort runs through the copper coil into...

Hello Homebrewers! I just found this form via a Google search. I received a couple books and a view on homebrewing for Christmas. Coincidentally, a new homebrew store opened up nearby, so I bought a starter kit as an after-Christmas present to myself :D I can't call myself a...