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• Posted in thread: Malting barley - "animal feed" barley, useable? on 10-30-2012 at 08:17 PM
  From what I know it is best to keep the temperature while kilning the malt low. If you heat up
  the barley to above 160 while it is wet you will destroy the enzymes in the barley and it will
  lose it's ...

• Posted in thread: Malting barley - "animal feed" barley, useable? on 10-28-2012 at 05:04 PM
  An additional source for malting is the Alaska Bootleggers Bible by Leon Kania (available on
  Amazon). It goes into malting barley for home brewing, and it also has some other decent
  materials on some ...

• Posted in thread: accidental orange in cider on 10-21-2012 at 11:37 PM
  update: I have decided that this is still a bit sour/acidic. I brewed another batch and left
  out the cranberry cocktail concentrate and substituted another 12 oz. can of apple concentrate.
  Currently b...

• Posted in thread: Steam Marzen on 10-21-2012 at 11:18 PM
  Brewed!6lbs 6-row pale (home malted) (Delta 6-row barley seems to run about 2/3 as efficient as
  store bought 2-row pale substitute 4 lbs 2-row pale)2lbs 2-row pale1/2 lb biscuit2lbs
  carapils1lb munich...

• Posted in thread: Steam Marzen on 10-15-2012 at 01:29 AM
  I had originally planned on brewing a straight marzen this friday, but I am thinking of trying
  a california steam version of it instead. I only have regular lager yeast though. Most of the
  steam recip...

• Posted in thread: Softened water issues on 10-13-2012 at 10:30 PM
  May have found my problem, searching before posting is a good idea. Judging from previous posts
  I am removing all of the beneficial calcium and magnesium from the water and replacing it with
  sodium. C...

• Posted in thread: Softened water issues on 10-13-2012 at 10:24 PM
  I have been brewing for a awhile all grain with good success, but lately I have been having
  slow fermentations and low carbonation in bottles. My initial gravities have not changed and I
  haven't chang...

• Posted in thread: accidental orange in cider on 10-09-2012 at 09:42 PM
  I added the concentrate and then refilled the cans with water twice, which almost got me to 5
  gal. I then pitched yeast and filled to top off the carboy. Original Gravity roughly
  1.065-1.070.

• Posted in thread: accidental orange in cider on 10-08-2012 at 05:59 PM
  Update, this is the best cider I have made to date. It was good enough at bottling that I made
  another batch. The second batch I did use a 12 oz. can of pulp free OJ instead of a 16 oz. can
  of regular...

• Posted in thread: accidental orange in cider on 09-08-2012 at 03:04 AM
  Recipe was 11 16oz. Cans of Apple juice, and 1 12oz. Can of cranberry juice for a little color
  and tartness, and then the sleeper OJ. So it shouldn't affect much, but I was curious if anyone
  had inter...