I currently have a black ale from austin home brew i have read in the comments that some of the guys have added whiskey and vanilla to the 2ndary. I was just wondering if anyone had tried this before or brewed anything like this.
i plan on adding 2 cups jack daniels and 1.1/3 vanilla bean...
me and my brewing partner are doing an american wheat ale and we want to rack onto cherrys now i read some of the debate about cooking the fruit first and then the argument that you dont have to do that because of the alcohol already in the beer ,(we added alcohol booster anyways.) well my plan...
I have a 5 gallon batch of black ale fermenting and i read that other people had put 1.1/3 too 2.0 cups of jack daniels in the brew along with a vanilla bean. Would this be good? if anyone has tried this or anything similar let me know how it tasted and how does the beer respond to the jack and...
so i have tried to research this topic and couldnt find a direct thread on the subject but me and my friend have a american wheat ale fermenting right now he loves banana's like alot and i wanted to know if we could rack the secondary onto some bananas if so how much and how do you rack to a...
some damn good advice on here i was thinking of doing a nice kit to add this jar of spring honey too any recommendations on what i should do for my next batch or should i start over with the older ones and find out what went wrong.
not rich but i use 2x 35 gallon garbage cans from the dollar store lol they come with lids so it helps keep the light out and the smell of beer brewing in lol. i love being a red neck.
we clean them out with bleach water quite vigorously . we have the fermenter s sitting in swamp coolers , at about 75.f. on average. they sat for ten days as recommended and moved them to secondary s. another 2 weeks in there and bottled. btw the stout over flowed lol and we caught it early the...
I stored them at the same temp. the yeast and the beer both said to keep the temps between 70-80 i believe or somewhere in that range, but colder you say hmm lol damn mississippi. well i am going to try dry yeast for my next batch and see if i have the same problem and btw we are using diluted...
hmm they where both partial mashes from austin home brew.
http://www.austinhomebrew.com/product_info.php?cPath=178_452_42_159&products_id=312
http://www.austinhomebrew.com/product_info.php?cPath=178_452_43_245&products_id=10170
we followed the directions to the T.
Used whitelabs for both...
I have used whitelabs yeast for ever kit i have ever ordered . Oldcastle brown ale - contaminated horrible yeast smell and taste dumped after 10 weeks in the bottle. Abita Purple haze clone and a oatmeal stout both from the same company both ordered at the same time. we always buy the best yeast...
i think it was the wort chiller honestly . it was old and had been sitting in a attic for god knows how long, i got it from a friend. We used the hoses on the chiller they where pretty gross where it connected to the copper so i cut all of it back and cleaned it really well but i think it still...