Recent content by HotHandsHanon

Hey all - I brewed this stout about a month ago (a play on McAustin's Mocha Stout), and I believe it has an infection. After sitting in the primary for two weeks, I transferred to the secondary on top of cold-brewed coffee and a cacao nib/vodka mixture. It's two weeks into the secondary now...

Well my first attempt with a large auto siphon was a no go as you can see from the narrow mouth of the growler. Instead, I took off the auto siphon and filled the siphon hose and bottle filler with bottled water and capped the open end with my thumb. From there, I took a spare cup and placed the...

+1 on Black Star. I lived in that apartment complex for a few months with some friends. It's literally like ten minutes from downtown, their house beers are fantastic, and all the other beers on tap are too. All the members of the co-op get together every month and vote on which brews from...

A follow up for this evening: I cracked one of the two bottles of the remaining PTE I filled last night, and I'm pleased to say I can't notice any difference in carbonation from yesterday (unlike when storing in a growler). I think I'll save the last one for tomorrow just to see if I can take...

#1 - True, but the beer in the growler was previously carbed, not carbonating in the growler. Don't know if that makes a difference, let me know. #2 - Entirely plausible... Ok, very probable haha. Don't get me wrong, it was GREAT, and if the heat had something to do with it than I'm sure it'll...

I would like to cover two things in this post: #1: The shelf life of properly filled growlers. #2: The taste of Pliny the Elder. The story is a little lengthy but I believe it makes a good point. It all started with a friend from high school who since moved to California and now works in Napa...

+1 on chiming in on discussions, it's hard being new haha... Googley routed me here for most if not all homebrewing related questions... So, I too, caved like the English circa 1783 Treaty of Paris and joined the site. 'Merica.

Is this an Aviator quote haha? Pissin' in milk bottles the Howard Hughes way... I'm fairly new to brewing (four months), but this thread is great reassurance that in the end, the brew will kick ass barring major mistakes. Haven't had a bad batch yet, although, the first batch fermented at 80...

I had some similar white dots on an Imperial IPA that I bottled yesterday, and I read that the white clusters may actually be groups of tiny bubbles. They eventually disappeared after a few days, and when I bottled they were nowhere to be found. However, I didn't have nearly as many as shown in...

I started brewing in the latter half of December, and have found myself on HBT just about every day since. Already five batches in, I have been able to find most, if not 100% of the answers to my questions through the help from "Whatever I was searching homebrewtalk" on Google's searchbar. Due...