Recent content by nm_johnson

I'm brewing a chocolate porter with my dad on friday! Pretty excited as I haven't brewed with him for a few years!

That is beautiful! Any idea how much $$$ all in it took? I'm just beginning to budget an electric brewery all out and trying to get as much info as possible!

+ 5 gallons Irish Red Ale + 2 gallons Jalapeno Cream Ale = 49471 gallons

That was my exact thought when I saw the logo as well. Have you looked at how it looks on a bottle?

This is for my upcoming batch, the jalapeno cream ale recipe that is floating around these forums somewhere.

22 oz pepsi / coke bottles work great. I know my dad is almost exclusively using those these days.

This has never happened to me before, but I guess I didn't stir enough after I added my priming sugar this batch. When I was done bottling, I noticed there there a big glob of sugar sitting on the bottom. It wasn't a LOT, probably 25% of the total added. My question is when I noticed there...

If you're worried just sanitize the new buckets? First, I'm doubtful there are any yeast still in the buckets as long as there is no sediment in it, yeast don't grow well on plastic with nothing to feed on. Second, even if there was yeast growing in the bucket, there would have to be a decent...

Don't go pouring it out now though! Yes, it was underpitched, and you probably will have more undesired flavors from the yeast due to stressing them, but it still has potential! As for the future, you're best bet is to make sure you have the yeast you need before you even start, letting the...

Just having a taste won't get you sick. And even then, I don't *believe* it would be too dangerous to drink, if it had a bad infection, you wouldn't get passed a single sip it would taste so bad. That being said, I don't know if I personally would drink something that old though. The oldest...

I feel like a williams brewing spokesperson now since it's all I've commented on yet... Regardless, on batches when my dad and I were out of star san, we just used the packet that came with our kit and it cleaned things just fine, no infected beer. That being said, if you don't have clean...

My dad has used them for close to 25 years now, and I just got my first kit from them a few weeks ago, I am bottling it (red ale) on wednesday! It's not one of the companies that gets a lot of love (not really any hate either though) around these parts, but they have great customer support...