Recent content by DanVader

chocolate honey porter.

how was your efficiency in the past? looks like you did everything right. the 5.2 instructions say to add to the mash which is what I do, but i've heard of others treating the sparge water as well. I had similar low efficiencys when I first started all-grain and was fly sparging with a round...

without knowing the mineral content of your RO water, and the concentrations of salts in the bag you bought, you're kinda up in the air. Hopefully you can contact the place you bought the salts from and get their input. I scanned thru a couple of different HBS and saw the same variations in...

American Homebrewers Association Homebrewing Events check out this website, most of the competitions have a website, and most allow you to fill out the entry forms online. It's really a piece of cake. I believe there should be a couple of links here to show good packaging techniques.

might try mashing around 158, maybe .5 to 1lb carapils?

no, beer balls would be trying my homebrew after you see my kitchen

CLR works pretty nice on the stainless

got to exercise, my standing rule now is, if I don't ride the bike I don't get to drink

I've been bouncing in and out of unemployment since march, and the budget is tight. On the other hand, I'm a complete friggin ogre if I don't have some beer around. I can make it cheaper than I can buy it (I refuse to do the 30pack of piss thing) The SWMBO is ok with me brewing, as long as I...

if you want good scores, brew to style. If you're shipping, don't tell em it's beer. The feed back is cool, but take it with a grain of salt, some judges are better than others. Don't let it get you down if you don't score high, you're the best judge of your beer, if you like it, thats all...

just racked a gallon off of mine tonight, wanted something different to drink. sitting at 1.016, still got a little activity going on. Still has sugar sweetness, but starting to lean more toward the bitter side. Kinda tastes like a weak margarita right now.

Must be different calculators, in beersmith this recipe is showing 40 IBU (tinseth) switched to rager and it was showing 49.5. Yeah I'd agree on the 40 range most of mine are 40 to 50 edit: had the batch size set for 5.5, at 5G it's 42IBU

looks good! I'd brew it, I'd drink it. I do an almost identical recipe all the time for pales. my latest couple of batches have been budget specials, I skip the carapils.

Finally got around to checking the gravity today went from 1.086 to 1.019 about 8.78 ABV tastes pretty decent, still sweet. I thought the yeast were pretty pooped out, very little airlock activity, surface pretty still, but after just dipping my racking cane in there a couple times to pull...