Recent content by CousinDave

A Patersbier is the next batter up.

I didn't dive in head first like you, but I did wade in up to my neck.

With regards to extract kits. From what I've gleaned the general consensus here is once you've safely tucked away your brew in the primary fermenter disregard the instructions and leave it in the primary three to four weeks, skipping the secondary even if called for. My question is, wouldn't the...

I was on my fourth before tasting my first. Good thing too because my first batch was lame. Just getting into my second now and it's pretty damn good.

I've got a Williams Brewing California Pilsner fermenting and I checked the gravity a couple days before the 3 week mark and it was at 1.022. I checked again today, 4 days later, and it's still 1.022 which seems high. Williams stated in the instructions that the finished gravity should be...

Banks Beer off the coast of Saint Vincent during a tropical wave. We even came up with a great tag line for a Banks Beer commercial. "When you're having a really bad time, we have a really bad beer. Banks Beer."

Custom Home Builder.

Both the furnace and the water heater are in the garage and it's even cooler out there. I keep my house at 68 when I'm home, dropping to 64 at night and when I'm at work. Even getting them off the floor, inclosed in a tub and wrapped in a blanket, they still hovered around 64 degrees.

I keep my house on the cool side, so getting my bottled beer up to 70 degrees and keeping it there was a problem. Enter craigtube and the idea of using Christmas tree lights interwoven round the the bottles for warmth. I know a lot of you guys think he's a goof, but it works. I found a...

Post count doesn't always equal knowledge. In my case it does, but not always.

The next batch is the beer Northern Brewer got in hot water over. Three Hearted Ale.

I think part of it is I didn't choose wisely with regards to my first kit. My setup came from The Home Brewery and I chose the American Lager kit. I followed the directions to the letter during the boiling of the wort. Left it in the primary longer based on what I've read here. Bottled half...

I don't drink unless I'm alone or with somebody.:cool:

Just brewed my third batch this morning and I still haven't had a finished beer from my first.:( Two fermenters now with a third on the way. I'm flooding the pipeline.:mug:

AHS Anniversary Kolsch was sitting on my porch when I got home from work today.:cool: