Recent content by Darth_Beer

Fuggle goes really good there

They work decent enough for my 3gal frosting buckets

Here is my house favorite pale: Fixed Income Pale. http://beerrecipes.org/showrecipe.php?recipeid=1360 Rogue's Beard yeast, Cascade hops, and blueberries make for a great blueberry ale with this recipe (though I top off to 2.5 gallons instead of the 2 gallons the directions instruct)

I use the 25ml bottle pre-forms from amazon for saving yeast. I try to get as much direct slurry from the bottom of the fermenter as I can using a turkey baster. This usually gets me enough yeast to not need a starter for anything under a 2.5 gallon batch until around 9 months old.

31968 + 2.5 gallon pale = 31970.5

30311 + 2 Blonde ale= 30313

24994+60.5 gallons (mixed bag of brews for the year) =25054.5

Thank you Dan for the insight on the leaves. A little research is showing that the area used to grow cluster and golding hops around the turn of the century. Most of the cones I harvested from it are very square in shape, with some being upwards of 2 inches long.

A co-worker pointed me to this hop, and I am hoping that somebody might be able to point me in the right direction as to what it is. The farmer that owns the field behind it says he does not know anything about it, and didn't even realize it was there. He also says that the area used to grow...

First year grower, and some first year hops and needing help to know if these are ready.. Willamette, Cascade, and Fuggle.

I am looking for a quick recipe critique. 1gal English barleywine: 2.25 pound Marris Otter 1.00 pound Pale LME 0.15 pound C10 0.10 pound Chocolate .40 oz Willamette 7.1% @ 60 min .20 oz EKG 4.3% @ 15 min .20 oz Fuggle 5.1% @ 5 min EST OG: 1.103 EST FG: 1.026 EST IBU: 44.6 EST...

Not my recipe, but one I do often... Fixed Income Pale Ale: http://beerrecipes.org/showrecipe.php?recipeid=1360

I did a Pineapple/Coconut Amber that came out really good...

I do 1, 2.5 and 5 gallon batches.

24h soak in oxyclean worked for me. I half filled the tubes with water, and let them soak while I was stripping labels from bottles. I use the Wally-world stuff if that makes any difference...