Recent content by Heidenweizen

Can I have the coupon code please? Thanks! :mug:

A thermowell would not be a good choice since when the beer is fermenting it will be a higher temp than just water around the probe if it were in a thermowell. I have the same controller and I just tape the probe right to the side of the fermenter and put some bubble wrap over that and tape...

Cider newb question here... When you let the cider age for nine months, do you age it in primary or do you bottle or keg first?

I'm in the Worcester area. I've done 1 batch so far which came out ok I guess. I did 5g from davidson farms with 2lbs of organic brown sugar added with lavin d40? yeast. It came out tasting a bit vinegary. I'm planning on doing another 5g batch before the season is over. I'm going to look...

I was at a beer fest in Boston over the summer and sampled some bacon beer made by Berkshire Brewing Company (I think) and it was the second worst beer I've ever had. You might want to try some before you make 5 gallons. I really wanted to like it but it was just too much.

Awesome, thanks guys! I've done a few other batches and never had anything like that happen before. Time to RDWHAHB! :mug:

Yesterday I brewed a blond ale and tried filtering through a fine mesh bag before it racked into the carboy. Everything was sanitized. The wort looked pretty clear last night before fermentation started. This morning I looked at it and it has these weird floating things inside. Does this...

I don't know exactly how they do it, but it can be done. I guess you would really have to like chilis to drink that beer. I got through about a 1/2 sip, gagged, coughed and spit it out...

I'm a first time brewer and have been reading all about primary vs secondary and this thread seems to sum it all up nicely. I bought a kit that had a bucket primary and 5gal glass carboy for secondary. Before reading so much, I racked into the secondary after 6 days in primary (as the...

Wow I didn't expect to run into any locals, maybe I'll stop by the next club meeting. My beer won't be quite ready by then but I'll probably have another one going. I was really worried because I just moved it into the secondary and it's really cloudy, but after reading a bunch of posts here...

I'm a first time brewer and needed some info and stumbled across this site. I picked up a starter kit from a store close by and am working my first IPA. Hopefully it comes out alright! :)