Recent content by MattD

Good luck to you! I'm finishing up my PGY1 year now, I'm sorry to say I left my brewing stuff behind when I moved :( I've been pondering getting back into it soon, my 4 months in the ICU next year seem like a perfectly reasonable time to fit it into the schedule :) What's your specialty?

Sounds interesting, I did an Old Ale a while back that turned out decent, and had a sorta similar recipe. I went lighter on the hops for a more traditional old ale though: 9.00 lb Light Dry Extract 67.9 % 1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L...

The only way you could damage your pot is if you had flame on it with no or very little liquid in the pot. If there's liquid in there, it'll suck the heat out of the metal before any damage can be done.

Sounds interesting.. the hop additions you have there sound to me like they'll give significant flavor and aroma, if it were me I might increase the time the hops were boiled, and decrease the amount to match the bitterness you want. That dark crystal sounds like it would compliment the peanut...

So, my old ale has been sitting in secondary for a few months now, and I'm trying to decide what to do with it. On the one hand, I could move it to a tertiary and let it bulk age for a while longer, at the risk of losing all my yeast and making the additional aging useless (not to mention...

Did you use dry yeast? That's when I've usually noticed those overnight fermentations. I'd let it sit for a while so the yeast can clean up after itself, at least a week, but if you're hungry for your brew, as long as it's not still slowly fermenting (thus giving you a risk for bottle bombs)...

So sorry to hear about your wreck! I hope you get to feeling better. Did you get any sort of medical attention? I might be a little concerned about a concussion if you hit your head and have had nausea/vomiting, if you need to go see a doctor make sure you don't wait till things get worse...

you can buy a flow rate gauge and install it inline fairly easily, if you really want to. That would only give you an instantaneous flow rate though. If you want to measure total volume discharged that way, you'd probably need a digital gauge to handle the integration and data collection. If...

Your kit came with a hydrometer, so I would recommend taking a gravity reading on your wort just before adding yeast, and recording it. Make sure you thoroughly mix the liquid up first though to avoid density layers throwing off your reading. I'd then let it sit for a week after visible...

Sounds like fun guys. I might give this a shot, even though I'm a total newb. I'm just getting ready to do an AG set up, so we'll see how it comes out! Has anyone thought of a timeline for this beast yet?

Hey yall, I was just wondering if anyone knew of a place where you could buy bottles other than the standard 12 or 22 oz. cylinder shape. I'd like to get some bottles shaped like flasks, or square bottles, or just anything that might be kinda visually interesting. Has anyone seen any online...

I'm not sure that the whole yeast issue really is an issue. Mass must be conserved, it doesn't come from nowhere. Those yeasties that are growing in your carboy are MADE OF wort. The yeast ate the wort, turned it into little yeast pieces, and reproduced. So overall, I'm not sure there would...

are you doing anything to promote/prove conjugation, or are you just putting in more than one strain so they can work together?

Sure thing, if nothing else I can use your recipe as a starting point. Regarding lambics, I love the style, but I'm not in the mood to wait that long with this one :) Also, I live in an apartment, and I'm planning on waiting on any lambic adventures till I have a house where I can stick some...

I bought a pound of fresh cranberries while they were on sale for turkey day. They will go into beer. I have no earthly idea what to do with them. Cranberry lambic rocks my face off, but I have no way to fool with making a lambic currently. Discuss. Suggest. Then I will make the beer you...