Recent content by Jefe73

All - I just finished brewing a pumpernickel rye porter and was wondering if any of you creative folks out there could suggest a good name? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Jeff

All - I just finished bottling my first Bavarian Hefe Weizen (NB Extract Kit) on Friday and upon inspection of the bottles today, I've noticed almost all of them have a large glob like object floating at the top. I take it this is just yeast that has clumped together and shouldn't be a...

All - I just finished bottling my first Bavarian Hefe Weizen (NB Extract Kit) on Friday and upon inspection of the bottles today, I've noticed almost all of them have a large glob like object floating at the top. I take it this is just yeast that has clumped together and shouldn't be a...

Can anyone suggest the best method for incorporating the honey into the recipe? Should it go in with the first hop addition at 60 minutes? Should it go in with 10 minutes to go and then steep? Should it go in at flameout? Should it be boiled separately and then added to the primary with the...

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! :mug:

Well I guess no posts to this thread is good news in that my recipes look ok! :p Still feel free to leave a response if you have one though! :rockin:

All - I've decided to try and put together my first "non-kit" extract recipe and was wondering if you all could look these two versions over and make any comments or suggestions...thanks! Jefe's Buzz Kill - American Wheat version 6 # Wheat Malt Syrup 1 # Two Row Rahr or maybe 1 #...

Ok, so I decided to go ahead and just brew a Hefeweizen recipe that I will add an apricot puree to during secondary. My questions are, how many lbs. of puree should I use for a 5 gallon recipe? Is one can of the Oregon Apricot puree enough or should I use a second can? I'd also like to know...

Thanks for the replies! cfos - I did manage to stumble across the Beer Nut website and saw they carried the Apricot Hefe kit...thanks for the recommendation! Professor Frink - I thought about doing exactly what you mentioned...maybe I'll give that a shot...especially if it came close to...

Hey everyone! I've been searching online for a good extract kit for an Apricot Hefeweizen and haven't had too much success. I was wondering if anyone could possibly either point me to a website that might offer the type of kit I'm looking for or even a recipe would be great! I was recently...

Hey Bishop and fellow Florida brewers! This is Jeff in Tampa (Westchase area) checking in! I too have done my fair share of reading on the subject and finally took the plunge into brewing my first batch...a Nut Brown Ale that is currently in the bottle conditioning stage. Next up, a clone...