Recent content by Dodonkious

I have let myself get to obese levels, and was even worse until my GF decided we needed to do something. Add to that the fact that we were going to take a flight to CA to meet her family and my 400lb butt had to loose weight just to get on the plane. (Mind you I was drinking a four or six pack a...

I don't know if you've ever used a french press, but you would just put some leaf hops in, then your beer on top, let that sit for a few minutes and then press the hops and decant the beer, essentially it's a way to get the hopback/hop infuser effect w/o owning one. There wouldn't be any brewing...

Update: It didn't affect the taste of the beer at all, I actually found my bung after the fact. I decided that the beer wasn't going to get any more clear and kegged it up. I did end up drinking it a little young, but today (It's been in the keg 3 days now.) it's very delicious. I need a wort...

My Starsan spray bottle is busted, so I just improvised, the plastic was fine, didn't warp it at all. I was worried about damaging it, but I have 4 others in case something happened to that one. I was confident the cigarette smoke wouldn't bother it, but I was just being cautious.

I had a very long post I was working on and I hit delete: Here is the Reader's Digest version: A. My problem when I started was that none of my friends brewed, but they were happy drinking the beer. B. I had a room mate who brewed 2 batches with me. One batch he gave out about a case of...

Well, they usually keep the door cracked. I actually boiled a stopper and airlock yesterday and plugged up the carboy, now my Session India Pail Saison (SIPS) is sitting in the garage, clearing up. If I am lucky I will be able to keg this at the end of the week! It was clearing up pretty well in...

Since I majored in Creative Writing this is up my ally. In addition I will soon be the manager of a homebrew shop so shoot me a message about this, I would be happy to help!

Usually, I would think the same thing, but I am using WLP565 and all of the information I have read about that yeast says it's happy around there. But I have had good results with this yeast at a lower temp. I am going to have top slap an airlock on secondary then (I am using aluminum foil atm)

Hello, I have been away from homebrewing for a small amount of time and in the spirit of the new year I have started brewing every 2 weeks. But this is a side note. I have been working on a session beer and it's close to time for a crash cool. Since I am in Ohio, current weather would allow...