Recent content by Izumidai

So i got an email from a friend this morning asking a pretty interesting question... If a person brewed 5 days ago and somehow forgot to pitch the yeast, is the batch salvagable at this point if he pitches a pack of dry yeast in today? Sounds like his sanitation techiniques are pretty...

I'm right outside of Philadelphia and I too am already seeing sprouts (have for about 2 week now). I am debating on whether our not to cut back when they get a little larger. I have a 3rd year cascade. I have a few questions... If I don't cut back and opt to let them go, will this just...

Just learned a very important lesson... Don't wait until the end of May to start training your 2nd year hops. Needless to say, I had a tangled mess that would have taken days to untangle. In frustration, I decided to cut them all down. Am I screwed now or will new shoots come up? I...

I would really like to experiment with a dubbel that I recently brewed and add bourbon and oak chips. I have read about a few beers like this and the feedback on the examples I found were all pretty good. My question is, would I take the same approach as if I were doing this with say a porter...

I sent an email to the new belgium regarding the grain bill and color and got this back from one of their QA analysts: "I did not get a chance to read the article that featured Kim in the December issue of BYO. I would stick with Peter’s comment about the specialties being ~30% of the grain...

I am interested in making a rum themed stout and I have a couple of questions... My original idea was to use a foreign export stout as my base recipe and add a pound of blackstrap molasses and age it on dark rum soaked oak chips. I then thought, hey, why not add some spices that would be...

@ Jason... There was a post on here about the process for having them ship you a container and box and prepaid postage slip. That info is a little dated now, as they will only send you the sample container and a generic return label (it was stated in the past that they supplied boxes and...

I am anxious to start brewing with my own water and I am ready to send it off to Ward labs for testing. My first question for those using tap water... do most people use hot or cold water. I imagine hot water would make things go a little quicker, but then you run into the issue of picking up...

anyone brew the Fat Tire clone from the december 2010 issue of BYO? How did it turn out? It sounds like a good recipe, but how authentic is it? Apparently it is from the brewery and the ingredients themselves match what is on the New Belgium website however the numbers dont seem to work out. I...

I let my first year cascade die naturally this year. Since it was the first year, I did not bother harvesting. Surprisingly, there were actually a lot of cones this first year. Was it bad to not harvest and let the vines die with the cones still on them? Also, I cut the vines about 2 or 3 inches...

I currently have a setup for one keg. (I have all of the parts to expand this to a 3 keg system, but wont be doing that for a little while). My question is, if I have a keg that is carbed to a level that I am happy with, can I simply unhook the line from it to put a different keg on for...

Please put me down for 1 sack of CM-PALE.