Recent content by oze152

@TxBrew Here's a pic of my future brewers in the making. Would love to win something from inkbird, thanks for the opportunity!

Following, I love your brew equipment!

Look at the stickies in this forum, and there is a lot of useful information. +1 on using Nottinngham yeast, that is my go to. One of the stickies has a good breakdown of different yeast strains, both postive and negative.

I am thinking about giving this recipe a try for the upoming holiday season. When did you add the apple cider? Is it added to the full boil, near the end, or after the wort is chilled? Thanks :mug:

+1 The bottles should be chilled for about 2 weeks in my opinion, and I have found that for beers that are over carbonated, lowering the temp in your beer fridge helps as well.

I normally let my beer sit to carbonate/condition at room temperature for at least 3-4 weeks before placing them in the fridge. If there is not room in the fridge at that point I put the beer in a cool, dark place. I use a closet in the house since I don't have a basement. After 4 weeks I try to...

After you have cold crashed your starter pour almost all of the liquid off leaving just enough liquid to swirl the slurry up off the bottom of your vessel before pitching the slurry into you fermentation vessel.

Go to this site: www.mrmalty.com/calc/calc.html by Jamil. It allows you to enter the type of beer and expected OG and will tell you how big you starter should be. In my experience, with one smackpack/vial of yeast for a lager, it will reccomend that you make a pretty large starter. Make the...

+1 on fermentation vessels, and also space, I never have enough space. Whenever I clear something out to make more room for brewing, it quickly gets filled with brewing supplies/equipment, and I am back to square one.....

Set out to do a partial mash biab oktoberfest yesterday, and as I was heating my water up for the mash I burnt a hole in the bag which became large enough to leak out all my grain as I dumped it in. So I improvised with what I had at home. Mash in was 3.5 gallons of water at 155 and mash out...

I just harvested about 12 lbs of fuggles and after I started drying them I have a ton of aphids that decided to come out. Is there anyway to get rid of the aphids safely or is this harvest ruined?

Here is my first harvest ever! Got about a third to a half a bag full of centennial cones, I am thinking about 4 ounces dried. Excited to brew with some fresh hops!

I live in northwest washington, near bellingham and I was wondering how I know when my hops are ready to be harvested and dried. I inherited two very large/mature plants with a lot of hops of them, but have never harvested hops before. When do people in the nw normally begin harvesting?

I am looking to get started in kegging and was hoping to get some opinions on CO2 regulators. I was looking at a triple gauge - 2 product/2 pressure regulator that I can get for about $90, but I am not sure that I need it. Since most beers are usualled carbonated between 2.2 and 2.6 volumes of...

I think that it should be ok. Bring the temp back up to 40 degrees or so and continue carbing. I have read that freezing and subsequently thawing beer helps make a clearer beer, but I have no experience with that. Good luck!