Recent content by fishruss

Hey, thanks! That is an awesome idea! On an unrelated note, I see you are posting from Okinawa. My wife is heading to Osaka in 2 months, any brews over there she needs to bring me home?

Gonna build a bar in my basement. Anybody got an easy to follow plan for someone not very carpenterly inclined?

I too think that good yeast pitching numbers and proper temp control are the most important quality control measures (with good sanitation steps) for acheiving great brews. If you don't have this control with extract brewing, it wont make any difference with all grain.

I made a porter extract kit and added 8oz. organic maple syrup at the last 10 min of boil. Drinking one right now. Has been in the bottle for 2 months. Definitely taste the maple syrup, but not super-overpowering. Will do it again with probably the same amt. of maple-no more.

thanks for the advice guys. been drinkin the cellar stock while reading the replies. don't think that i have the willpower to hold on to these any longer anyway!

Tried it the other day after a month and a half bottled. Not too bad! I would think this will get better with age. Kind of a bastardised version of a recipe I got from Extreme Brewing (Sam C. from Dogfish Head Brewery). Got the gesho from an Ethiopian restaurant. Gesho is used much like hops in...

That make's sense. Probably should drink a few of them, How old is the oldest you guy's have been hoarding? What is it?

It is delicish. Got the kit from Northern Brewer and it was very good.

I am starting to get a large collection of Belgian Trappist beers (Chimay, Westmalle, Orval). They are sooo expensive and I always hear that they get even better with age, that I am afraid to drink them! Anyone else have this phobia?

Just sampled a somewhat copied version of Dogfishhead's T'ej Ale. Very much a sipper! Made a starter 24hrs. before brew day. 3/4 cup light DME, 650ml water to boil, cooled to 80 degrees and pitched Wyeast 4632 Dry Mead. Brew day: In a separate smaller pot, 8oz. gesho (an African tree root) with...

Old Rasputin from North Coast. Just had one. Can't wait for the next!