Recent content by NickyD

Sir I like your attitude

Dark as hell, thats for sure.

Another vote for dumping the trub. Less equipment to clean, and I cannot tell any difference.

Might do a Belgian style IPA, Hallertau, Saaz, something in that direction. Or a Kölsch. Thats a damn bit variety to work with.

I looked for a clone awhile back, with no luck. The Saint Arnold website is very informative however. Pale male, a little wheat, four additions of German hallertauer. They use a Kolsch yeast and ferment it at lager temps. When I was thinking about this, I decided it would probably be hard to...

Just wanted to share my most recent brewing catastrophe. I made a very nice cream ale, but I could not be happy with that and decided to dry hop that sucker right after I tapped the keg. I had some spare german hallertau. It is... unbelievably bad. Epically bad. It tastes like sparkling yerba...

Ha, I assumed that I would be siphoning carefully from the bottles to the keg, but now that you mention it I'm not sure how that would actually be done without oxygen exposure. In my inert gas chamber with scuba gear, thats how. We started to shake them weeks ago, unfortunately. I think we...

My buddy bottled his first beer about two months ago. No signs of carbonation. I'm at a loss as to what to tell him. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for what went wrong, but more importantly, how to salvage the beer. My advice is to open it all up, keg it and force carb on my...

In reading up on this issue, it seems I have come across a lot of people in NYC with a similar problem. Glad the Campden Tablets are working.

I brewed this a few weeks ago, and since I've learned that some nasty bug has set up camp in my brewery. My fermenter has the same smell, so it is going down the drain. However, I was so excited about this one i'm going to grab the stuff for another batch while I'm replacing my plastic...

I'm wrestling with the same issue; I am thinking infection.

First AG, and +8 3315 oh, and first post!