Recent content by Jenks829

I would be interested in about 4. Maybe more.

I agree with duboman; I often brew a California Common beer using 2112, ferment on the cooler side for a month and bottle. It is one of my favorite and easily reproducible beers!

Any chance you took and original gravity reading? What is the batch size?

I use this function multiple times everyday. I just wanted to add my most recent discovery. The lab engineer I work with taught me this. I work with Excel a lot making graphs from data. I often have to draw a straight line across some data to show something. I've always done this by hand...

Hoopty here also! 1988 Honda CRX

"I see" said the man as he reached for his hammer and saw......

Brewed a Black IPA for a contest on short notice. Because I wanted it done so quickly, it was designed to be a low ABV (~3%). I did reduce the hop quantities but I guess not enough. The beer was bitter.....very bitter. My first sip I though "Oh, this is good, this might have a chance...

So......mead foams when you add nutrient and Fermax........A LOT!

I mixed this up last night. I only mixed the honey, water, nutrients and yeast; I was originally planning on including the ginger in the primary fermentation but after making the ginger tea, I felt that the flavor was not something I was looking for in the mead. It seemed too harsh. When I...

Agreed. I will take your advice and use 1 oz. I originally didn't know how much I would need. The 3oz idea was a stab in the dark. This is a fantastic idea. While I believe I am set on the combination mead, this would be a great plan as well. What is everyone recommendation on how...

Thanks for the input. Fat hand, I actually have no idea how much ginger to add. After looking thru many recipes, I picked 3 oz as the baseline. I am now leaning more towards 1.5 oz because I don't want to overcome any of the other ingredients. Frydogbrews, I have a good friend who runs a HBS...

Hello All! I plan on making a mead for my brother's wedding. He is of Welsh and Irish decent and his future wife is German and Welsh. He grew up in Philadelphia, Pa, she in Woodbury, Mn. Together they live in Phoenix, Az. Baring cold feet, they should be engaged by the end of this...

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This beer......is not terrible. It may even be drinkable. I don't get much from the hops. It has that nice taste that can only be the Belgian yeast. I can smell the smoked peat but don't taste it too much which I believe was the goal. The color is a very dark red/amber. It looks awesome...

Awesome. I would recommend building the colony up with a weak wort (~1.030) as opposed to table sugar. This way, if it is something you could ferment a beer with, it will be accustomed to wort.