Recent content by johnsonbrew

Any ideas on the amount of water to use per oz if hops?

They were sealed but not refrigerated or anything. I don’t get a lot of time to brew but had it all figured out until plans changed then it was several months later that I got around to it. I have never had this happen before and figured I would try to add bff labor before dumping two kegs worth.

Any guesses as to how much hops to use for the tea? Same as the recipe or???? Can I add bitterness to it too or should I just try the hop flavors?

So I brewed a batch of beer with some ingredients that were probably several months old. I am assuming the hops lost their ability to impart flavor and bittnerness to my beer. I was afraid all was lost but now I am wondering if I can use hop extract or steep some hops and add it to my keg to...

Best idea ever for homebrewers I think are the creation of these establishments that have large number of taps to sample a variety of beers. I have been sampling a lot of fruit infused IPAs lately and am really liking some of them. How are they getting their fruit into these beers? Do they...

does it stop flowing when the keg is full?

So are those two liquid disconnects? I have pin lock kegs so I could just build my own....correct?

So here is a silly question that I think I know the answer to, but would like someone to chime in. I recently got a 2.5 gallon keg and was wondering if there is anyway of filling it with existing kegged and carbonated beer without makine a huge mess or losing a lot of beer. I don't generally...

You will be disappointed to know that I did not do any of that stuff other than follow directions that came with the kit. This was my third kit wine and it was actually pretty expensive compared to the others so I had/have some high hopes for it. It was a Cellar Craft (I believe) and it came...

I bulk aged my wine for over a year, then bottled and it sat for 2 months to eliminate the bottle shock. I popped a bottle and tasted it, it really did not taste like much of anything at all. I expected there to be some decent wine flavor since it bulkaged for so long. About all it produced...

When I bottled last week, it seemed like it was actually gas free, so now that I waited that long, that issue resolved itself. I am more or less curious if longer bulk age time means less bottle age time or if I still need to wait 12 to 18 months before it starts to peak. I am a very seasonal...

For no other reason other than laziness, I did not bottle my Carmenare for nearly a year. I had started to bottle, but then noticed it was still very gassy after about 6 months. I whipped it really good, and decided to let it sit, for another 6 months. I just bottled this up and sampled it as...

I have read some articles and posts about back sweetening beer, but have not really found what I need. I attempted to make an Orange/Citrus Cream ale (not like an orangcicle just for clarification) just a sweeter, orange flavor cream ale. It turned out dry, I got busy and forgot to suspend...

I racked it of what ever it was, tasted and all seems to be fine. I will be out of town for a few days so when I get back I will check on it again and see how we are doing. I will probably re-rack at that point regardless and then bulk age if everything seems to be fine. If it looks like it...

The fg actually has not changed I was going off memory and remembered when testing last night that the hydrometer rested between #s. I did not us Compton tabs on this wine. But after tasting it it seems fine. I do want to bulk age so I was thinking of cold crashing then racking. Will that...