Recent content by jswanson737

Such a solid beer, definitely my "go to". My dad and I did this a while back, and it came out tasting almost like a sour, tart apple flavor. Thinking this was a lactobicillus (SP?) infection. Not totally sure, but man, it still, was delicious, if you don't mind a sour(ish) beer.

What a solid beer. Brewed this with my dad, and we both love it so far. I used the original recipe and cut it in half, but still used the full amount of minute rice, and 1 oz. of each hop. It tastes great!! Should I have used .5 oz. of each hop though to stay true to the original recipe since I...

Well, 14 days in primary, 6 days in secondary at 80 degrees, and two weeks in 80 degrees bottle conditioning... just as I suspected, it's not right!! Tastes overwhelmingly fruity, wondering if these temperatures could have caused the esthers? I can't believe this is the correct flavor... opinions?

Finished at 1.002, so I guess that's not so bad. Went up to my buddy's to bottle, come to find out he'd had it in primary for 14 days at 74 degress, then secondary for 6 days... at room temperature (80 degrees)... this should be interesting. Will see how it turns out!

Brewed this bad boy up yesterday... Everything went perfect, got a solid mash at 151.5 degrees, pretty excited about this but... when I checked the efficiency I got a whopping 55%, and an original gravity of 1.036. Then, I remembered at the supply store, when the guy was milling the grains...

Holy goodness. SOLD! This looks fantastic!! Sorry if this is a repost, on a quick break at work and 99 pages is a bit to read through at once. Couple questions though... 1- I'm doing a five gallon batch, but have never used rice hulls before, what would the quantity be? 2- I am going to do a...

Thanks so much, sounds simple.

It is ok to let the beer sit in the primary for 14-21 days, even after the fermentation has ceased? Also, when you say to crash cool the beer before racking to secondary, you are talking about the same temperature that you cold crash before kegging correct? Then, keeping the beer "COLD"...