Recent content by idgawomp

Awesome, thanks! This thing is louuuud when I plug it in, but I'll let it roll for a few hours and see what happens and update ya back.

It's a True TDD-3... the lady I purchased it from said it did. I turned it on and it seemed to chill, though...

So, I just found an amazing deal on Craigslist and got this for $300: It needs a new compressor and some cleaning. A) Does anyone have advice on how to go about getting it spic n' span, or compressor-related advice? B) Any ideas or advice on how I can trick this bad boy out...

Thanks so much for the advice, Trox. I experimented with a different way to process the ginger... I'm a pretty dedicated home cook so I've played around with lots of different ways of preparing my aromatics when making dishes. When prepping ginger, if washed and scrubbed well, I'll leave the...

I used a champagne yeast... no malted extracts, just ginger and citrus juices. It seems to be clarifying some with time; it was far cloudier a week ago. Yeah, those droplets are REALLY weird. I'm wondering if my roommate or partner got a little to interested in the goods while I was gone...

It probably depends on how you made it... I've seen some folks say it tastes like a saison or belgian after several months.

I had a friend who has been doing homebrew for a while come to help me along the process and he recommended it... I have absolutely no clue why he did it that way and it still doesn't make much sense but it happened. I used a glass carboy for fermenting and it was racked to a plastic carboy...

About a week ago I racked some ginger beer into a second carboy for kegging but wasn't able to get a keg that evening so I tossed in some campden tabs, covered the carboy top with some aluminum foil (I thought it would only be for the night) and left the carboy alone for 4 days. The brew was...

UPDATE: I taste tested the brew 5 days in and the flavors were WONDERFUL! The ginger was strong with a hot finish, the pineapple danced off the lemon and lime towards the middle, but the front was REALLY REALLY sweet so I figured I'd let it go an extra day or two. By two days later the sweetness...

Thanks so much for all the info, y'all! I'm about to embark on my first brew venture, and here's the recipe: 3.4 lbs organic ginger root 6.7 lbs turbinado 3.4 cups fresh pineapple juice .84 cups lemon juice .84 cups lime juice .5 tablespoon cayenne This is sneakymeade's recipe...