Recent content by eriktlupus

holy hell have I been gone for a while. where to start won an xbox one last yr in the mountain dew contest/auction have bf4, destiny, ryse, cod:aw for it. bf4 is good if you've been playing the series but if you are newcomer to the game it is frustrating for game controls(still cant fly...

nice looking app. quick and pretty intuitive. can you maybe look into adding a brewday function IE mash temps sparge qty fly or batch sparge option

you also might try letting your temps rise a bit. -05 is ok up to about 70* iirc. the low temps might be cause of your lack of attenuation in previous attempts

definitely going to be a spring project since the ground here is frozen solid already.....this is what happens when you mix good hops withs wild ones

its y a great excuse to go out and buy a pump and fittings. the only time I move wort is after its in the fermentor.

serious question. I made the mistake of planting a wild hop into my hop run and now its pretty much taken over the whole bed. I need to kill it(unfortunately it'll also mean wiping out my cascade and chinnook too) so I can start a new bed. will roundup type herbicides kill the rootstock of...

ouch... try splashing a pot full of sparge water into your face because you was dumb and forgot to grab the hotpad first

The problem is I haven't brewed for like 3 yrs. Stopped and haven't gotten the motivation to do a brewday since we did the last utopia clone here in michigan

How did it turn out? My butt needs to get moving and brew again

My 5g igloo use a prefab FB while my 10g uses a FB made from a pizza crisper pan trimmed to size and bowed slightly with a hammer and drilled to accept a 1/2in topdrain. Both have served me well for 5yrs now with no issues

Quite a few of the historically dark beers are actually the result of a harder water profile and this is part of the correct flavor profile for them eg...guinness is one. Unfortuately 95% of the beermakers in the us have a natural hard water profile and must filter in some way. This includes...

After an early trip to the gun shop and the brew store it be corned beef, cabbage and taters into the oven for a slow 5hr roast. Hmmm maybe I'll finally brew another beer if I can find all my stuff

Using flaked rice just takes the step of boiling this adjunct out of the equation. As for using an ale yeast I've never done it but like revvy said any of the clean yeasts should work. If you have a colder corner in your house this time of year it would be a good place to do this with a swamp...

since you live in the north with all of us cool brewers. use a swamp chiller in the winter in your coldest room of your house wrap a t-shirt around your carboy and stick a therm in there...i did my first few lagers this way b4 i got temp controlled freezers. if your into all grain look into...

go with a simple blonde recipe. it'll be close enough for the bmc crowd and enough flavor to settle the real ale drinkers.