Recent content by desertw0lf

Ended up turning this into three small gallon batches of mead because I got impatient and itchy to start somethin bubbling!!

I am making several batches of Apfelwein today, and while out buying cider to top up what little fresh-pressed we got out of our bushel of fresh apples I picked up a gallon of Mango nectar. It has no preservatives in it, and I thought I could do it up like apfelwein. Got a spare packet of...

Well, I drank several bottles of it after it was bottled and left for three weeks. There was not NEARLY this much sediment or trub into it. I then loaded it all into the fridge in the garage, and it sat in there another 4-5 weeks, and suddenly turned into this. Wouldn't it have been the same...

I brewed this dunkelweisen a couple months ago, and it has been bottled for close to eight weeks now. Bottles were soaked in oxy-clean, well rinsed, and then soaked in iodophor - rinsed in the dishwasher on steam setting, and rinsed out with iodophor and let dry just before bottling. I drank a...

Sold out! Sadface :(

Arguing that home-brewing saves you money is like arguing that hand-loading for firearms saves you money. You hand-load for precision, quality ammunition. Same thing goes for beer. If I wanted cheap I would keep drinking PBR.

Cool! I think I will try doing another SMaSH while I wait for this one. Thinking 12# 2-Row and Cascade, but caramelize/reduce the first gallon of clear runnings and add back in @ boil time.

I'll try this, thanks!! You mean the beer end as in the carboy I am siphoning from, not into - correct?

I used a really fine hop bag, and it looks like grain in there. Guess I'll see when I rack to secondary. Sure is fermenting vigorously! Good sign :)

So I attempted my first AG brew yesterday. I was doing a SMaSH, consisting of 11# Maris Otter, and E Kent Goldings as my hops. I did my mash with 4.5 Gal @ 154 F for 60 Min, and my sparge with 2.5 Gal @ 167 F for 15 Min. My mesh stayed in place in my mash tun, and I poured the first ~ Gallon of...

So in an attempt to start setting up to go all-grain I have been questing for empty kegs to make keggles out of... NONE of the local breweries has any decommissioned kegs - they all say that they are having as many rebuilt as possible... I don't really want to grab a keg from craigslist that...

40 gallons so far, planning another 200 or so this year.