Well it's funny, I stumbled upon this blog this morning as I was gearing up to use my new counter pressure bottle filler from Braukunst. I saw the simplified version using a racking cane and a stopper and said to myself
well if I bought the real thing it must be easy and work the best...
Yes, one wonderful day of brewing. It will be interesting to get back together to taste each others brews. Mine is fermenting like crazy. Soon we'll have to have a southside brewoff.
Yup I'll be there! It should be a good time! I'm brewing tomorrow as well. What a weekend of brewin.. I'll be bringing a few ales to taste. A Belgian Abby, Belgian Strong, a Rye IPA, and maybe a few others I got hangin around. Haven't decided on exactly what I am going to brew yet. Doing...
My first was a big ol' barley wine. Turned out great but drank all of it after only 6 months of aging. I wonder what it would have been like after a year or even two...
This is such a great idea! I just finished reading David Sutula's book on Mild Ale and am now reading Designing Great Beers. Really got me into thinking about designing my own around style guidelines. Another great thing to talk about would be yeast strains and water profiles for the styles.
Wow. I just read this whole thread from start to finish. 32 pages of crazyness. You can see I didn't have much to do today...
I think everyone should use 7 malts to hit 7 SRM with a SG of 1.077, 7 hops with 7 hop additions to get 70 IBUs, 7 gallons of water, pitch 7 types of yeast from...
I know Minocqua Brewing Co. in northern Wisconsin use to make a wild rice ale that was okay. Not the best brew in the world but they did it. Not sure how much rice needs to be used for a 5 gal batch but I would expect it does not take much since it has a strong taste. I think it would be more...
Thanks for the quick answers. I was using only 1-2 lbs. I will try to bump it up a little next time. I didn't think about using both co2 and gravity. Pretty good idea. One other question is when I was racking into my kegs, I opened the top and stuck the tube into the keg. I guess I could...
If anything you should try to get a liquor sales license and sell micro beer in the shop. Don't know if this is possible or not but it would be a one stop shop for brewers. Buy your supplies and craft beer in the same trip. Wow. Now if this idea is a success I expect one free six pack a...
So I finally hooked up my co2 tank to my carboy and racked without having to use the auto siphon. It was really easy to do but kind of had me worried about how much co2 pressure to use so I took my time with it. I was wondering if anyone has every blown up a carboy before because of adding to...