Recent content by JMack

Hopefully my first AG brew - Bee Cave Haus Pale Ale. Waiting on the ingredients, which should be here today. And my propane burner - Father's Day present - which is on backorder.

Awesome. Thanks Ed!

I'm going to be brewing a Dubbel for one of my next batches, after I brew a (hopefully) good pale ale for a nice summer brew. For the Dubbel I have two ounces of hops coming. 1 oz Tettnang pellets 1 oz Saaz Plugs Planning on using the full oz of Tettnang at 60 for the bittering...

I've got two AG recipes on order, Thanks to Brewmasters Warehouse. My question is is there a recommended time/method for storage of the kits? These will be my first attempts at AG, and while I'll do the first kit rather quickly. I'd rather hold the second kit to give me time to go over my...

I've seen a lot of methods (including Palmer) that recommend adding water to the grain, rather than grain to water. Is there any real difference? Any reason to do one or the other?

Not drinkable yet. Usually have to get rid of most of the bottle. But I can be patient. At least I have a Kolsch in the bottles that after jsut a week is wonderful, if a little flat. Another week or two and that one will be great.

OK, so it's been over a month. I've been tasting one a week and it's not getting better. I'm going to keep trying for a few more weeks, but I'm losing hope with this one.

I wash the bottles first. Then run throught the heat sanitizing function of the dishwasher. No soap in the dishwasher, and I also run it empty prior to putting bottles in to make sure that any residues have been removed.

Just put my thrid batch, a BB Kolsch kit, into bottles last night. Is there a problem with storing the bottles at 55 degrees or so? Will the low temperature inhibit the yeast from providing enough action to carbonate the bottles?

I brewed this one as my first attempt a few months age. It came out wonderful, great flavor. I'd definitely recommend it.

I agree. And actually I'm switching snaitizers. I was out of the iodophor anyway and the lhbs recommended one-step so I am going to give that a try. Going to try another beer in a day or two and see if the flavor is mellowing yet.

I agree, and I know that I don't have enough experience to know the difference yet. It's been bottled now for 10 days. I tasted one at 7 days and the flavor was reduced, but still obvious. I'm going to try one each week to try and see the progression of the bottle conditioing. We'll see how...

OK, I was out for a meeting last night and literally ran into a HBS before I got there. In speaking with the woman there I have come to the conclusion that the off-taste is realted to my use of iodophor. Looking at the information around I used about double the amount that I should have...

I can't tell you what you SHOULD start with, but I can tell you that I started with a Belgian Wit Mini-mash kit and I was very happy with the kit and the results.

Just bottled last night so green is definitely a possibility. My plan was to give it at least 2-3 weeks before even a testing bottle. And that's about the answer I expected. Sometimes us newbies just need a few words fo wisdom to reassure and calm us before we toss a beer because of...