Recent content by Dave6187

And home brewing?

I was having trouble coming up with a brewery name for a while, I wanted something that kinda said what I was all about and sounded cool. Mosh is connected to my punk/rock roots and "have fun" lifestyle currently basement has 2 meanings, 1 because I'm fermenting it in my basement, 2 because it...

my friend and I just threw this together tonight...

Just tasted it, was a lot different than I was expecting, I can def say that. Had a very smooth mouthfeel, went down smooth, and was incredibly well balanced. In a way, a little more bland than I was expecting too, but being is this is my first taste of green uncarbed beer, I don't have much to...

Well I was planning on either transferring to secondary today, or conditions permitting bottling. So I popped the lid off, took my sample and tested it and it was at 1.010 (expected to be between 1.010-1.012) but it was still pretty cloudy. I poured my sample into a glass and stuck it in a...

just let it sit in the fermentor undisturbed for a few weeks, and filter it through a fine filter. you may have to add a bit more yeast to get it to carb up, but it'll def be drinkable :)

not to get off topic here, but yooper, that has got to be one of the coolest things I've seen in a while, thanks for that

yea, I was going to do a 3 week primary, but right now I only have my bucket, and a 5 gal better bottle so I can't really do a second batch until my bucket gets freed up. So I figured 2 weeks in primary would be good, and then see where it was at at that point

it's been 4 days as of today since pitching, and I think my fermentation is subsiding. It was at 63 when I pitched, spiked up to 66 friday night and as of right now it's back down to 63 and the airlock is only bubbling every so often now.... it's nice to know things are going as planned, but I...

My first batch is fermenting away (been 2 days since pitching) and I'm planning out my next batch. I want it to be an IPA of some sort but can't decided which recipe to go with. the book I have "extreme brewing" has a recipe for DFH 60 in it, but I don't think I'm ready for that yet. Was also...

all steel is magnetic to some degree, even stainless, it just all has varying degrees of it(i seriously doubt that they would use stainless in a hydrometer though). A fridge magnet might not be strong enough to show any definitive results about steel vs lead. I can tell by the weight of mine...

I want to get going on my next batch ASAP (i know, i've got the bug and I haven't even gotten to try my first batch yet) Considering either a DFH 60min clone, or one of the IPA kits MW sells. I was leaning towards not putting my first batch into secondary, but I'm going to have to in order to...

what you said about wyeast 1056 doesn't make me feel so happy, that's what I used in my autumn amber I just brewed.... I'll look into getting the 6gal better bottle, and just make sure I stick to the 6.5 bucket for larger grav beers. I would love to be able to see what's going on inside...

well, I'm working on getting a "pipeline" going, and was looking at getting another primary fermenter. I have a 5 gal better bottle, but I'm not sure what I can do with that, other than a "bright tank/secondary" I suppose I could just start using a secondary, although based on what I've been...

well the carboy better bottle is a 5gal, iirc(was meant to be a secondary in my kit). I'll probably pick up another bucket, or a 6.5 gal better bottle so I can keep something goin at all times