Recent content by DMC12

So I have a question about barrels (wood) and yeast. I purposely put sour yeast/bacteria into a small oak barrel that I have. I am using it for 100% sour beers and to also sour half a batch of anything else that I would like. My question comes from a recent batch that I did. I made a Tej...

As a resident of Randolph I was always thinking the area needed a brewery. You beat me to it! Can't wait to see the brewery and would like to chat sometime about the whole experience. Best of luck!! Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I sure can. Here is the basis of what I used for each of the beers. For the Old Rasputin recipe, I messed up and got all of the hops for that beer as Northern Brewers Gold hops (didn't know the ones listed were actually two different hops, I looked quick at my sheet when at the LHBS). I found...

Thanks for the response. That is pretty much the same answers I have gotten while doing my own research. The only reason I posted to ask the question is that I am fairly unfamiliar with Mead Yeast. I wasn't sure if the yeast acted entirely like the ale yeast. Thanks again and I will keep the...

So this is my 5th and 6th batch of beer, 5th batch bottling. I was going for something along the lines of a Dogfish Head Bitches Brew clone. I brewed an Old Rasputin clone and the DFH recipe for Tej. The Old Rasputin was aging in the secondary for around 5 months, and the Tej was sitting...

I'd have to agree. I did one of the DFH tasting at the roof-top brewery in NYC with Sam leading the class. At the end of the night he was talking about the show and how they did all this great stuff to get the place open, etc. and how it was all filmed. From the way he was talking, I am not...

I'm looking to brew this next weekend, but on a 5 gallon batch scale. Just a few questions. 1.) Like the 120 clone, are you using the 099 super gravity yeast for fermentation after the initial 5 days? and the Belgian yeast for initial? 2.) How long was your boil for? With the ingredients you...

Soaking the ingredients was another idea I had. I even thought of soaking them in <insert Gin type here>, and then using that to flavor the beer. I remember reading about similar spices in the Wit beers (I haven't done a Wheat/Wit beer yet). Either way,since we are on the same page and...

Ok, so I have toyed with the idea of making a Gin inspired beer with a slight cucumber flavor (Like Hendrick's Gin). I have seen that Midnight Sun has a Bathtub Gin beer ( a gruit beer brewed with no hops) and Dogfish Head has made their Dirty Fermentini (blonde ale beer brewed with the...

I know this is quite an old thread I am resurrecting, but any chance of finding out how this beer turned out?

Thanks for the update! I have been planing to brew this, and actually took your base recipe and tried to figure out exactly how to tailor it. Are you planning on just adding frozen raspberries or are you going to be making a puree? Any plans to add the raspberries to the secondary? Also, what...