Recent content by dirtymike1

:rockin: He's been back for a coupe of months now, but his wife said he's been trying new and different beers. I figure while this isn't a Kentucky summer beer, it'll age great and he'll have it for the winter

Well this batch is going to a friend, a Vet that just got back from overseas, and his birthday is at the end of July. I know it won't be 100% by then, but I'll tell him to throw a bunch in the back of the closet and forget it till Christmas time.

I'll try this out next time. Since I added the brown water fromt eh steamer, I won't do that next time and see what happens Thanks again all!:ban:

Well I broke the single stave up (it was about 3ft long by 4in wide by 1/4in thick) and steamed it for 20 minutes to clean it. I pour the left over brown water into the batch as well, for added flavor. If nothing else, this is an experiment to learn how to make this process work :)

Cool. I'll try it in a week but I figured 7-10 days would be plenty anyway. Thanks!

I brewed a batch of double IPA 2 weeks ago and split up the batch last night. I bottled half and put the other half over pieces of bourbon barrel to give it an oak aged/barrel flavor. I've tried to find out via searching, but how long should I leave it over the wood? Since it's about 2.5...

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Sheldon, I was just going through my info on here and updating it. I just moved to Kentucky, but maybe we can work something out. Grizzly, that's what I figured. I'll measure out the sugar and I figure if I use about 3/4 of it that I should get the level that I want. Since this is a sipping...

Wow it's been a long time since I've posted on this site, glad to see that it's only grown in the time that I've been away. Life (read: work) has kept me from brewing for almost a year now, but I'm in a new job, in a new place and have hammered out the biggest beer that I've made to date. I...

It's not spo bad here in Northern VA. We are geting our first snow of the season right now actually. It's going to be no more than 3 inches or so, but people here don't know how to deal with it and the roads are a mess already... So I might be leaving work in just a few!!!

Sweet thanks! One box will be going to PA, the other to TN. I loled at the "yeast sample" one, and I will definatly tell them that. Thanks again!

I did a search and that didn't yield any answers to my question. I want to ship out a few bottle of brew as belated X-mas gifts to some friends and family. I was wondering if you can do this and how legal it is. Also, how do you wrap it to ship? I figured just using bubble wrap and telling the...

I just had a growler over the weekend, hmmmm I do agree, it does seem a little under hopped. But either why I still like it. If I remember it was like $13 here in the DC area, but everything here is overpriced with our artifically inflated economy...fml

i wouldn't go as far to say that one of my friends stole it. My buddy lives in a iffy neighborhood and it could have been one of the hood rats that lives near him... I try to have a little more faith in my fellow man and would like to believe that people who say they are my friend wouldn't do...

Thanks for the answer's, and no you'll won't be hearing about my new keggle... I figured that nothing would happen, at least that was the jist of what I read inthe other thread. It still sucks, I'm out some loots bucks...