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• Posted in thread: White house beer on 10-03-2012 at 12:55 AM
  So here's my issue. I bought the Northern Brewer White House Honey Ale and I followed all the
  directions except I added the honey at 60 min instead of the last 5 minutes. So I'm assuming
  this will pre...

• Posted in thread: Northern Brewer now has Maris Otter LME. on 09-13-2012 at 07:11 PM
  it makes great barley wine. Not sure how you can make american style anything with english
  ingredients, but it will make a good barley wine.Maybe he's using American water and equipment?
  Just sayin.. ...

• Posted in thread: Best Belgan Trippel kit? on 08-22-2012 at 03:05 PM
  This kit from NB is quite good. Very smooth for a high gravity beer, lives up to the velvet
  name.Velvet Rooster

• Posted in thread: Northern Brewer - Caribou Slobber on 05-04-2012 at 01:38 PM
  6.5 I think it isI've always used a 7.9 gallon fermenter and never had problem with wild
  fermentations. Not sure if that's why or if I've just been lucky.

• Posted in thread: Northern Brewer - Caribou Slobber on 05-03-2012 at 02:01 PM
  What size of buckets do you use?

• Posted in thread: Managing picnic taps? on 04-20-2012 at 07:20 PM
  What does everyone do to manage picnic taps in your keezers? I'm finding them somewhat messy to
  just lap them over the kegs. I'm thinking of rigging up some sort of bucket/container with
  slits cut in ...

• Posted in thread: Has anyone tried the Hop Head IPA kit from Midwest?? on 04-15-2012 at 03:00 PM
  I just kegged this Friday and am anxious to tap into it this afternoon. I followed the
  directions with wyeast. 1 week in the primary and one week in the secondary dry hopping. SG
  10.72 FG 10.16. Smell...

• Posted in thread: Pilsner help on 03-15-2012 at 02:05 PM
  Well, this kit uses 3 oz. of Saaz hops, 2 oz at 60 min and 1 at 5 min.. So adding more quantity
  at those times would seem logical to me.