Recent content by DavyMark

I think some rhizomes just go at their own pace. I have 6 plants. 2 each of Centennial, E. Kent Golding and Willamette. The Centennials have always gone gangbusters. My two plants are already all the way up my 12' trellis. Last year was the first year for my Goldings. They did what your...

Ok, so this beer is really good. It has a pinkish-brown head! The porter it is based on is also my favorite beer I make. I spun of 1G from a batch and added 1lb of pitted frozen cherries (bought that way from A&P) in secondary. Anyway no infection and good taste, my only change next time...

I used pre-frozen pitted cherries. Bottled two days ago. The un-carbonated warm version going into the bottle was very promising though.

Racked the porter off of the cherries last night. Getting closer....

Why is it out of the question if you use a braid? I use a 48q cooler with a ss braid and run my sparges 45-60 minutes without any problems. I'm not trying to be rude, I just want to know what you mean by that.

I just put the cherries in with the secondary 2 days ago. So the jury is still out. The technique I wound up with was: auto-siphon from primary to bottling bucket, cleaned and sterilized carboy (reused from primary), racked 1 gallon of porter on top of 1lb frozen (not thawed) pitted cherries...

I did this the first batch I ever brewed. Opened up the lid on the plastic primary and was super exited to smell my first batch. And....Boom, near about knocked me over. Right of passage I suppose.

Where do you get to dive into hops? That's just plain awesome!

I need some friends like that.:)

This was actually supposed to be a Stone Pale clone. The recipe is from a magazine. I'm just pumped b/c it's the first time I ever hit my og target in an ag brew!

Just finished pitching the yeast. 10# breiss 2 row pale 1.5# caramel 40 0.66# caramel 60 0.33oz fwh magnum 12.2aa 0.33oz magnum 12.2aa 90min 1oz ahtenum 15min 1tbsp irish moss 45 min. mash in @156* 10 min. mash out @168* 45 min. fly sparge @168* cooled to 70* pitched 1 tube of white...

Just finished pitching the yeast. 10# breiss 2 row pale 1.5# caramel 40 0.66# caramel 60 0.33oz fwh magnum 12.2aa 0.33oz magnum 12.2aa 90min 1oz ahtenum 15min. 1tbsp irish moss 15min. 45 min. mash in @156* 10 min. mash out @168* 45 min. fly sparge @168* cooled to 70* pitched 1 tube...

Tomorrow we will be brewing a Stone Pale Ale Clone.

Mash in 45 minutes at 156 degrees, mash out 10 minutes at 168 degrees. Then personally I fly sparge at my mash out temp.

I just ordered the ingredients for that recipe yesterday. I'll let you know.