Recent content by jlgroves1

Though I've had almost all the NB beers this is one of the ones that has eluded me. Need to get a hold of some apparently. By the way AmandaK great brewery name, GO CARDS!!!!!!

Thanks for the heads-up I will definitely take the weight into account and will probably only use about .5lb of hulls. My temps. are from a friend that has done Wits before so I was fairly sure about those but thanks for reassuring me. I know the recipe is on the heavier side, I'm looking...

So this weekend will be my first witbier and my first time step mashing. 5 gallon Harvest Moon (Heavily modified blue moon recipe) 6lbs pale malt 4lbs flaked wheat 1lb white wheat malt 1lb flaked oats 1lb rice hulls .5oz cascade at 45 min .5oz cascade at 15 min 1oz coriander at 5min .75oz...

This is really my only hang-up with a fully "homegrown" beer. I know that using commercial yeast my final product would probably at least be drinkable if not good or great. With wild yeast it would be a complete crap-shoot as to which "infection" it picked up, most likely an undesirable one...

My local ag supply store has it for $30 for 50lbs.

you missed my point, caveman was just a catchy title, i plan to use modern 2 row barley which can be bought at seed supply stores and hop rhizomes available from midwest supplies. I plan to use the same process I do now just with my own homegrown materials.

Anyone ever start completely from scratch, that is, home grown barley seed and hop Rhizome/homegrown hops and make a SMaSH? I think that this will become a long term project for me over the next couple years. I want to get rhizomes this year and hopefully have good production by next Spring...

I know, I'm a bit worried, I originally wanted 1 # each of 40 and 60 but accidentally ordered 2# of 40 on the same grain bill as the rest so it was irreversible. Made a very similar recipe a while back with .5# each of 40 and 60 crystal and it was actually very good (not a great clone of FT but...

Doing a modified version of the March/April clone. I wanted a bigger bodied, maltier/sweeter but with strong similarities to FT. 7# American pale 2 row 2# Crystal 40 1# Crystal 60 8oz Carapils 8oz Biscuit malt 2oz chocolate malt 8oz honey malt 1oz Willamette 60min 1oz Willamette 15min Wyeast...