Recent content by jwaltz1313

oh not to worry, bonus time is coming up in a few weeks and i'll be getting me a keg kit :-D i'm thrilled at the idea of no longer having to do up bottles.

just as a follow up on this project I finally racked this over to secondary after like 6 or 7 weeks in primary. I figure I'll let it go for a week to let the crud settle out some more but I took a sample and I'm pleasantly surprised on how this has turned out. It's slightly darker than i was...

this one was further off from the first... i know it's a "porter" with a nice plum\raison flavour but my limited brewing skill hasn't allowed me to really match what they did. When the fall comes back around i'll maybe give it a another shot..

i hear you. i typically do partials and i'll check the og and let it ferment for like 4-5 weeks and toss it in secondary for like 3 or so and i do a fg at that bottle time to get an idea of what kind of alch % i hit. I could probably make better beer doing it more often and as i should but i'm...

yeah totally use a muslin bag or tie them up in a bit of cheese cloth. treat them like a tea bag floating around in you boil.

conical fermenter large chest freezer 500 scratch tickets various bits of cool\handy\neat brewing gear you wouldn't normally consider. something for the misses and a week or so latter "find" an amazing price on the above and put it on the CC :)

I've been drinking a lot of this as of late and figured i might as well give it a shot. Part of me wonders if it is just as simple as doing up a basic weizen and tossing in a bit of chamomile towards the end of the boil. has anyone given this beer a shot?

whiskey jugs? not sure what you mean by that but the growlers were of a style of glass that was thinner like a commercial 12oz bottle. for me personally it all comes down to the fact that I loath bottle time so that is what prompted me to move towards the growlers. I did have a batch that...

wow, epic post, but thank you. I hadn't even considered most of that. The growlers I'll just have to keep my fingers crossed as I'm saving them till the 4th but not use them again. I think this just pushes me one step closer to just buying a keg system :)

I'd been using a couple of cases of flip top bottles for years now and the heavy glass has held up great. Recently I'd been setting aside growlers and using those also. The other day I had one explode but I think it's probably because it was a hot day i didn't have the ac in and it had been...

oh cool, thanks!

i'm going to do a summer themed beer and was looking for a suggestion on a yeast. the recipe will be: 3lbs light dme 3.3 pilsner lme 1lb 2 row 1/4lb spelt 1/4 honey malt 1/4 carared 1/4 special b 1oz fuggels @60 1oz fuggels @30 2oz Strisselspalt @15 1tsp grains of paradise...

Hi, I've got Friday off and am thinking of giving another shot at attempting to clone Brooklyn Brewery's Cookie Jar Porter. The last time around I think I got the aroma pretty close so I'm tweaking things a little. I was wondering if anyone whose been lucky enough to have this beer has...