Recent content by jonlovesbeer1203

Instead of "naturally carb" the beer with priming sugar, you force the CO2 into the beer. If you use beer smith it will give you a good idea how much psi to carb. There's also graphs all over the web for beer style and psi.

Yeah, I know. Each one is about 15 bucks! I'm thinking of using coco powder instead of the chocolate.

i got in touch with someone close to the brewer and he "didn't" say that they use a chocolate and a peanut butter extract from silvercloudestates.com due to people with peanut allergies. the website has this as a beer description: Grains: Pale Malt Chocolate Malt Crystal Malt Black Malt...

*UPDATE* I got in touch with someone close to their brewing process, and he "didn't" say that they use chocolate and peanut butter extracts from silvercloudestates.com . They have to go that route due to people allergic to nuts. So if anyone out there could give me some recipe advice, that would...

I love kegging! i bought a fridge off of amazon for about 130 bucks. It's a Danby. You have to be sure to get one that doesn't have coolant or powerlines in the top of it. It fits 2 kegs and a 5lb bottle in side no problem. The actual tap kit i got is...

I'm trying to figure out a clone of this magical beer to fill one of my corny's up with. I've been brewing for about 2 years now, but i'm pretty terrible when it comes to creating my own recipes. I scoured the web and the closest I got was the DuClaw site. They provide the following info...

That's gonna be my game plan... Should I rack to a secondary or just leave it in my primary till st patty's?

That seems to be the best bet... So do add the sugar and bottle a few a couple days before without priming and see what happens? Any specific juice you'd suggest for this experiment?

If I just wanted to use the ingredients I originally posted... Could anyone post a rundown of how I would do it?

Don't boil. Got it. Thanks!

Thanks dwavs... My goal is to get a strongbox style cider... So with what I originally posted for my ingredients, do you suggest boiling the cider, adding the dextrose, nutrients, and yeast... Fermenting for 2 weeks or so... Then priming and bottling? How much priming sugar would you suggest?

Thanks! So if I have unpasteurized I need to boil and add the dextrose and nutrients to the boil? How long should I boil? When I bottle it do I need to add any priming sugar or just bottle it as is? Sorry for the questions, just want to get it right!

I'm fairly new to home brewing (3 5gallon brews deep) and I want a cider for St Patty's day. One of my buddy's said all I need is the following: 5gallons apple juice 1lb dextrose 1 Safale s-04 yeast 2tsp of yeast nutrients Well he apparently dropped off the face of the earth and I need some...