Recent content by Djanvk

You might be right here as I did have my picnic tap hooked up, that was a thought I had. I'm probably going to have to fill it with h2o and throw some pressure on it to make sure.

Kegged a batch on a corny keg the next morning it was all over the fridge and garage floor. Is this due to a possible bad seal, are they easy to change?

I just got done brewing a "Hopless Ale" with Mugwort, Lavender and Anise in it, smells really good but It's only fermenting right now so now sure of the taste.

Just had a Brown Shugga ale from Lagunitas, that will put some hair on you chest. I've liked all of their beers so far, definitly going to have to get up to their brewery in Chicago.

So far everyone that had tried this beer has liked it, my only complaint would be to tone down the end bitterness a bit and increase the aroma of the hoops a little. This was my first recipe I formulated and it didn't turn out so bad, a little more tweaking and I might have something. I do want...

Thanks for all the great tips I'll take them all into account.

no one has any thoughts on this?

Ok so I finally made the attempt at my first recipe after researching ingredients for a bit. This is for a ESB and did everything within the BJCP limits for this style. 8lbs 2Row 2lbs Crystal Malt 20L 2lbs Maris Otter 1.5oz Fuggles 60 Min 1oz East Kent Goldings 45 min 1.5oz Fuggles 5...

Do the swamp cooler thing. Bucket of water with the end of the towel in the bucket and the rest of the towel around the fermenter. Something like that just search for Swamp cooler to regulate fermentation temps.

I'm definitely curious as to what my final product will come out as, we will see in a couple of weeks. :rockin:

Ok so I've been wanting to brew this and finally got around to it, ordered my grains and when they came I brewed away...BUT...something seeming odd, I got a low SG of 1.035 which I was stumped because I hit all my temps and all went well. So I got to looking and noticed that I had shorted...

Ahh yes the old light beer trick.

My issue here also is I don't have a local home brewing store by me so I order my stuff, so I can't just run and get DME. I appreciate all the quick replies everyone.

I left out 5lbs of 2-Row, it only have 1oz total of hops. Instead of honey could I just add some sugar to increase the amount of fermentables to up the Alcohol content just a bit?

Ok this makes me think now, so with a lover OG I can use Honey to up my OG and Alcohol % AND with the lower OG I'm going to have more hops utilization so a more bitter beer. Now my thinking says that I can add the Honey which will add more sweetness to counteract the bitterness of the increased...