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ABOUT ME

City: michigan
About Me: I am a professional tattoo artist with a love for brew. I have been brewing mead for a good handful of years and have brewed my fair share of homebrew. My love is in all grain though and mead of course.
General Interests: brewing,building,drinking
Occupation: tattoo artist
Real Name: jeremiah f klabis
Favorite Music: tool
Favorite Movies: layer cake, the usual suspects, etc
Favorite Television Shows: tv? whats a tv
Favorite Books: to many to list. Incarnations of Immorality by piers anthony
Home Brewing Biography: s friend of mine brought a bottle of mead to a game we use to play out in the woods and we got to drinking it asnd it was love at first sip. he was a brewer and nextt hing i knew i was knee deep in honey and yeast :)
Future Brews: i am working twords a e-rig for 5 gallon batches in my basement. I have a long way to go but i will get there.
Primary: Oatmeal Creame Ale - just laid it down first batch in 2 years hope it isnt going to go bacterial.. so worried about it even though i was hard core about cleaning everything. I quit brewing because of a massive bacterial infection to my brew back then so im paranoid about it. every little bad smell makes me nervous. and it hasnt kicked into full gear of fermentation and its been 2 days.

on deck double chocolate oatmeal stout.
Gender: Male
Status: Engaged

LATEST ACTIVITY

Posted in thread: Making Traditional rice Wine. Cheap, Fun, and Different on 05-10-2013 at 11:34 PM
Thanks sonofgrok. They were really easy to make. I printed out what I wanted on the paper, then
I soaked the paper in coffee for five minutes, drained the liquid off, baked them in the oven
for seven ...
Posted in thread: Making Traditional rice Wine. Cheap, Fun, and Different on 05-10-2013 at 11:06 PM
Here are my first batch babies at roughly 15 percent abv.Raspberry and cherry121276
Posted in thread: Do you know how to make a yeast starter? Then why not farm yeast and freeze it? on 05-10-2013 at 11:04 PM
Formula for dummies. Like the book series. If you use 100 ml of slurry you use 100ml of
solution which is 7 parts sterile water to 3 parts glycerol mixture so 70ml water and 30 ml
glycerol. 100ml slur...
Posted in thread: Complicated yeast starter question on 05-08-2013 at 08:25 PM
Id go with kai since he has posted his methods and you know it's leads estimated.
Posted in thread: What should I brew? on 05-08-2013 at 07:28 PM
go to the store and buy a few types of beer you have never tried before. I'm sure you will find
one of them you like. Then do some research and brew one of those types so you are expanding
not only yo...
Posted in thread: Do you still drink if it's "infected"? on 05-08-2013 at 07:25 PM
Ive never had an infected batch but I was worried about it once when I was a green blood. Revvy
hit it right on the nail 90%+ of those infected threads are not infected but merely someone who
does not...
Posted in thread: Pitching onto yeast cake/ trub questions. on 05-08-2013 at 07:15 PM
yes decant off the little bit of beer and pitch right into the yeast patty. You can definitely
use some star san to wipe the sides as after the acid in it has taken its course what is left
is just ext...
Posted in thread: Complicated yeast starter question on 05-08-2013 at 07:13 PM
yea I would go use yeastcalc as well and you will get some diminishing returns but if you
repitch your yeast into a second 2000mL starter I would think you should be in the ballpark of
what you need a...
Posted in thread: I graduated... on 05-08-2013 at 07:07 PM
welcome to the real show :) extract beers can be really good but after you get into grain its
just not the same. here Ill do it since no one else will. *hands you your big boy pants and
shakes your ha...
Posted in thread: Do you know how to make a yeast starter? Then why not farm yeast and freeze it? on 05-06-2013 at 08:31 PM
Someone in my brew club brought up a concern that I did not have an answer for. He said and I'm
quoteing not stateing according to whites book there is mutation that occurs at -20 storage
that does no...