Recent content by HughBrooks

it is hard to guess what your efficiency will be the first time around. What type of set up are you using for a mash tun? Do you have a false bottom or a manifold? Are you going to fly sparge or batch sparge? I think an easy first ag beer to make would be some sort of brown ale.

is that offer to send the instructions for the barley crusher still good? I would love to get a copy. I just bought one used from someone getting out of brewing. I want to check and set the gap on the mill before I use it for the first time.

cool! thanx for the post that looks like one of the best clone recipes I have seen for the NN. I will probally use that with some slight modification. Once we make our clone and see how it turns out I will definatally post my results. If anyone else has a clone of the NN that they like still...

we have stepped up our bottle cleaning to eliminate any possiblity of that. We even bought a fancy bottle sprayer to help clean them

usally brew in the same place. We have made probally 50 beers or more and it has only turned up in about 4 maybe 5 of them. We have gone through our routine several times to figure out what is wrong. We have had 3 of them turn out rubbery since we switched over to a converted keg for o brew pot...

we filter the water before we use it.

usally ferment around 69-70 F.

liquid yeast. usually wlp001. we always make a starter with a stir plate.

we use star san like we always have. We have not changed the way do things either it is really weird that it is random from batch to batch. It makes it a lot harder to figure out the problem really is because we are pretty consistant in our methods. It has been in a couple of different styles...

A couple of my friends and I brew together and we have made a lot of beer over the coarse of o year. We have had great success making good beer. Recently though we have had a few batches come out with a rubbery smell only after bottling though. Not sure what this could be coming from. It taste...

yea I searched the site but could not find a definate winner. Just hoping to get a little more info. Would like to see a recipe that someone did and can tell me how it turned out

I have seen a couple threads on how to clone the NN. Have not seen a definate recipe or any final comparison between the real thing and the homebrew. If anyone has made this and it came out really close I would love to see what hop schedule was used. On the Troegs site the say the hops used are...

the place i am taking the beer has a bar with co2 so that wasnt the problem. i just wanted to know what the best way to naturally carbonate without co2 tanks. since i personally dont own a keg or kegging system. I would like to get my own keg set up soon though because bottling all my beer is a...

thanks for the info!

what if i dont have a co2 tank and I want to carbinate a keg? is there a good way to do this?