Recent content by Mismost

I suspect the high sugar content helped preserve the juice. I assume the juice was pasteurized before canning. Canned allowed no contamination. Actually kind of good to know!

Coopers or Muntons prehopped cans and a kilo of DME or sugar....pound of grain...mini mash extract. Most of the time I don't even bother to boil. I use the water heating up for the mini mash to warm up the extract can. Mash the grain for 45-60 minutes and sparge with another gallon of hot water...

They just put in a craft brew pub here in town. I stopped by and tried a flight of their beers. A friend was there and told the guy I made good beers and wines. Owner wanted to sample them, so I took a few up there. He loved them and offered me a job! I didn't need a job. When we started talking...

Since it's your money....I say go for it!

Update...this actually turned out really good....for a few minutes! Racked to a bottling bucket and had this "great Idea", add some of that coconut flavoring. A Loran oil flavoring very powerful stuff in a tiny bottle. I couldn't get it to come out and I was shaking and shaking and then it ALL...

the oil may rise to the top....if it does, perhaps you can blot some/most of it up with paper towels. I did this once with a flavoring that was oil based and it helped.

I primary in buckets because they are easier to clean....and they don't let light in. I secondary in very shy clear glass carboys that insist on not going topless, so I put a tee shirt on each one.

I gifted a six pack to a friend on Christmas 2015, he stuck it in a cabinet and forgot about it. I "reclaimed" the other day...beer was about 18 months old at that point. I chilled a Porter. That was the best Porter I ever drank and certainly the best I had ever made. It was not the same beer I...

I like how their taste changes in the glass as the Co2 leaves and the beer warms....it is often like drinking several distinctly different beers.

reclaimed a gifted six pack I gave a friend for Christmas 2015....he stuck it a cabinet and forgot about it. I chilled a Porter and poured it. I expected the worse after sitting for so long. It is the best Porter I have ever drank, much less made. Dark smooth great body and mouth...

ever lick a river? ever eat a tree? Saturday Night Live skit on Euell Gibbons! I used to go out eat cattail roots and nettles...tough way to get by!

Super hopped, double hopped, IPA hop bombs...beer really should not taste like a freaking pine cone...more is not always better, in fact, it often just sucks.

1. you're nuts...you have a family and you are quitting your job, losing your income and insurance....that is not good management in my book. The grass is alway greener when you have none of your own. It is easier to get a job when you have a job. You can bet the interviewer is going to be...

I disagree. I wish someone had talked to me about water treatment when I started. My beers were just soso until I started treating water...then they became really good. Really good is what all beginners want to make...not just soso. Basic water treatment is not rocket science although some folks...

I cold crash everything now since I set a chest freezer with a InkBird controller. Just drop down to 33 and walk away for a few days or weeks. Clear clean flavored beer. Too easy not too.