Recent content by mtmartin2005

Thanks for the link. I just sanitized my thief and tasted some of it. Its awesome. You can definitely tell its almost 10% abv. I'm gonna bottle it Saturday and see how it goes. Any more advice would be great though.

Can I drink this beer? I was so looking forward to it. Finished at 9.92 abv

Nottingham Ale Yeast Never heard of it, but did a search came up with this. Very interesting. Bière de Garde ("beer for keeping") is a strong pale ale or keeping beer traditionally brewed in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.[1] These beers were originally brewed in farmhouses...

Mash temperature was 155-156 F. Unless my thermometer is off.

10.5 lbs 2 row malt 1.5 lbs 60L 0.5 oz black malt 500L 0.75 oz northern brewer 60 min 0.75 oz willamette 10 min 3.5 gal 170 F strike for 156 F mash for 60 min 4 gal 170 F single batch sparge

We made our first all grain batch on April 19th. We have already made 3 5 gal extract kits that haven't turned out the best, but are definitely drinkable. After reading that a lot of the extract kits were hit and miss, we decided to go all grain. We used a pale ale recipe that I found online...

Thanks! The only reason I used the stainless is because I already had it. I probably could have done without the wire but it helps the copper from acting like a big slinky.

What do you guys think? It has around 60' or more of tubing. I wired it together with some stainless wire I already had. Got about $10 in it total.

I'm in.

Checked a sample this evening and got a gravity reading of 1.013.

Thanks! I've been reading a lot about the secondary fermentation, and some say do it and others say you don't need to. The only reason I thought that I should is because of the instructions. I think I'm going to take a reading today and leave it alone.

This past Saturday a friend and I brewed our first beer with a brown ale kit purchased at our LHBS. We went by the instructions and ended up with an OG of 1.054 once the wort had chilled. Transferred it to our primary fermenter and pitched the yeast. By Sunday bubbles were happening kinda...