Recent content by MrPorter

Maybe I've invented a new style o beer! When people drink some and go :eek:, I can tell them it's supposed to taste like that:p

Yeah, I think I'll let it sit for another couple of weeks before trying again. This was my first foray in homebrew for a couple of years and I forgot to keep an eye on fermentation temps. Overconfidence combined with rusty skills make for dodgy beer :) This is a fairly big beer, so I'd probably...

Halp! I made this here beer here: http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/black-ipa-extract-kit.html I ended up steeping my specialty grains too long and I think the fermentation was in the upper 70's at times before I got it down. The beer spent 2 weeks in primary, 3 weeks in secondary, dry...

Hi guys, I have a question concerning getting gunk in bottles from the bottom of the fermenter/bucket. I was bottling the other day and I had a ton of crap and hops (I dry hopped in secondary) at the bottom of my bottling bucket. I managed to squeeze out an extra 6 pack or so that included a...

Hi guys, I am wanting to get back into home brewing and go all out...I mean all grain :) I live in an upstairs apartment with stairs leading down to a garage on the ground floor. The garage has no water supply. I have a gas stove in the kitchen with about 15 inches clearance below the...

Thanks guys, I feel a little better about it now. It's my closet and SWMBO thinks I stink anyway ;)

Hi guys, Wondering if anyone could help me. I am brewing Northern Brewer's Lefse Blonde which is a Leffe clone and uses Wyeast Abbey II yeast. I sat on it for a while and so from the date on the packet Mr. Malty told me I need a big-ass starter which I made. I pitched my starter into the...

Aw, just chuck it in yer carboy and have a beer :drunk:

Thanks for the advice, I really appreciate it and it has made me feel better. It seems like every time I brew I do something different wrong and panic about it. This is my first high gravity brew, so more things to be paranoid about :)

I am making a Wee Heavy with OG 1.083 from a kit. The kit came with a Wyeast Scottish Ale Activator smack pack 1728. It said on the package that it can be activated and then poured into 5G of wort, so I did. Now I am reading in a bunch of places that I have under-pitched and needed about 3...

Thanks for that! I'm going to read it now. Speaking of podcasts I just spent over an hour here looking at their videos thanks to someone else on this site. I'm really glad I found this forum! http://www.basicbrewing.com/index.php?page=video

I think if you were paranoid you would boil and cool a couple of gallons of water and use that to top up your wort. I can't be bothered with that personally and have had no problems...then again, my second batch isn't even done yet ;)

I need to get to around 75F before I can pour/aerate and pitch. I don't have a big enough pot yet to do a 5 gallon boil, so I can only boil at most 4 gallons at once. After evaporation I need to add 1+ gallons to get to 5. I don't know exactly how much to add until my wort is in the...

I hope I didn't start an argument. Hmmm, maybe next time I'll ask the CraigTube guy :D

I need to remember what I read recently in a book "A History of the World in 6 Glasses" where the author describes Vikings who didn't know much about the science of beer. All they knew was that each family had a stirring stick they passed down from generation to generation and using this stick...