Recent content by ericsabbat

Count me in!

This looks awesome!

My 34 point black IPA managed mini BOS round hopefully your 41 did as well? I managed to get to mini BOS with a pumpkin lager and scored a second with my Hef in San Diego

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The original idea was to essentially make tea with beer instead of water but if I just toss it in the beer I couldn't figure out how long to steep to get flavor but no bitterness, and if that will infect the batch doing it that way. I have enough tea to make a full 5 gallons. Want to steer...

I made up a recipe for a green tea imperial pilsner and am sitting here staring at all my ingredients and I just realized I have no idea how I am going to make what worked perfectly in my head a reality. Here is the process I was imagining Brew pilsner and let it completely finish...

I generally just use a temp correction chart to figure gravity after taking a sample from the first runnings. I am always sure to stir my grain up as I dough in every 20 or so minutes during the initial mash and once or twice after adding sparge water. I lose about a gallon or wort due to my...

After boil I came away with 6 gallons at 1.091 so efficiency was better then I thought, still a little lower then I was hoping for however. I just bought a new boil kettle so had a hard time knowing when to stop to get down to 5 gallons, still left at least a gallon of break material in the...

I am about 5 all grain batches in and each time my efficiencies have varied widely so I am trying to pinpoint precisely why. First I was sparging too fast, I batch sparge and was just letting it sparge as fast as it wanted too after my vorlauf, I was told by a brewer that even batch sparging...

I'd Def. use it. I hate having to spreadsheet my stuff.

damn what a contest! I needed a new mash paddle, sign me up

With new bottles I've always just rinsed them quickly to remove any dust that happened to fall into the necks during storage and then sanitized.

Any of my friends that insist on getting my beer get the privilege of me dragging my feet to get it to them so long I've already drank it all, and when they complain I hand them the recipe.

You could be getting air in your line because the hose to the racking cane fit isn't snug enough and as the beer moves through its sucking in air. I was getting mini bubbles in mine so I stopped disconnecting my line from my racking cane. The only other thing I could think of is that when you...

I use one can of Oregon puree in my peach honey hefeweizen and it gets a lot of good reviews, its enough that you can taste the fruit but it doesn't really become the highlight of the beer. So its really going to depend on if you want a fruit forward beer, or a beer with a little bit of fruit...