Recent content by M-P

Great...thanks for the information.

So a friend of mine just brought his old kegerator out of storage to give to me. It came with everything except the keg, but after banging around in storage for 4 years it needed some repairs. The fridge door needed some repair work, the faucet needed a part, and the regulator needs a new gauge...

So about a week ago I decided to make my first mead. It was essentially the MAOM recipe with with 7lbs of orange blossom honey for a 2.5 lb batch. I went to the LHBS to get my ingredients and asked about some yeast nutrient and energizer, but was told not to worry about the energizer (they call...

Went and made my own six pack at a local store....felt like dark beers so here is what I came up with...some of my favorites. From left to right: Duck-Rabbit Milk Stout, Bell's Kalamazoo Stout, Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout, Left Hand Porter, Founder's Breakfast Stout, Founder's Porter

this was extract with: 5.5 lbs dark dme 1 lb 60L caramel malt 1 lb flaked oats .5 lb choc malt .5 lb black patent malt 1 lb lactose 8oz 100% cocoa powder I figured that since it only dropped 3 points in 10 days that it was pretty well finished in the primary.

I brewed a chocolate milk stout and let it sit in the primary for the past 12 days....just racked it to secondary this morning. My original gravity was 1.056, which is about right, but my SG after 3 days was 1.027 and now at 12 days is 1.023. The style claims 1.012-1.024 FG, but I was assuming...

I'll have to look into that beer festival...went to the Hickory Hops Festival last year and loved it.

Haha. You're not very far south of me because I live in the Lake Wheeler area. I usually go find food in Garner.

Though hours of google searching to figure out how to properly utilize chocolate in a beer.

Yeah, that would have been fun. I'll keep an eye out.

Drink Beer Cause It's Good Dark and Hoppy Beers Are Best Others Are Good Too and a non beer related one that I came up with in my solar engineering class... Photovoltaics Their Efficiency is Weak Better Luck Next Time

Nice to see other NC brewers. Wow, stumbling on American Brewmaster is no easy task since it is on a random side road. I buy all my ingredients from there...nice people and nice store.

Been brewing for a couple of years now, but decided to join yesterday to get some extra info on a beer that I just finished brewing (Chocolate Milk Oatmeal Stout...my first beer using cocoa powder or lactose). Figured I would introduce myself and see if I can't contribute a bit. I've got a...