Recent content by Paininmyale

Just go to your local grocery store and ask them to save you wine boxes. They fit perfect and have the inserts in them

Much appreciated, unfortunately i waited to long to get everything started and brewed a belgian wit instead. Once i settle down the first week of september ill be able to start it up and get the gesho root locally.

Ive done it, and its a bad idea. I ended up putting a beer clone i made from Dogfish head in there and after one press of the button the carbonation shot it everywhere. You'll end up with a huge mess on your hands, but hey.......it works!

Much appreciated, 5 weeks is traditional to an average brew so it shouldn't be that bad. From what ive read the fuzz has scared a lot of people so im prepared for that.

When you say you would suggest a different yeast, for what reason?

I have a recipe that is based on an Ethiopian honey wine called T'ej. It was converted into a beer/mead but it does not say the fermentation length in the recipe. I was interested to see if anyone could figure it out, im moving in 2 months and if its more then that, its going to have to wait...

I have a recipe that is based on an Ethiopian honey wine called T'ej. It was converted into a beer/mead but it does not say the fermentation length in the recipe. I was interested to see if anyone could figure it out, im moving in 2 months and if its more then that, its going to have to wait...

Well if you want the exact recipe and steps I can send it to you. I was told by my LHBS it would take 8 months to ferment out due to the complex sugars in the 8lbs of honey (thats why im questioning if i could). It sounds amazing and gesho is hard to come by, but there is one site ive found that...

I have a recipe that is based on an Ethiopian honey wine called T'ej. It was converted into a beer/mead but it does not say the fermentation length in the recipe. I was interested to see if anyone could figure it out, im moving in 2 months and if its more then that, its going to have to wait...

Never thought or heard of that. Thanks

Has anyone ever tried to convert a Sanke keg to a corny keg? I know they can be cut into brew kettles and fermentors, but have yet to see anyone covert it to a corny keg setup.

I ended up brewing this and it came out pretty well. It was similar to the DFH fort, but not exactly. It ended up a little more then 17%, but after talking to my LHBS, the bottle conditioning didnt go as planned. I ended up not having enough priming sugar to carb it, so im going to have to...

From my trip to the brewery in Delaware and after reading up on it, they follow a similar schedule to the production of 120. I ended up using frozen raspberries (to prevent bacteria from forming) and ended up making a puree with them. I added a 1/3 of the raspberries at 60 minutes into the boil...

Turned out pretty good, not exactly like DFH fort though. Its right around the same alcohol % but after talking to my LHBS for suggestions on priming sugar to carb it, it was not enough. I am going to transfer what i do have into a 5l keg and force carbonate it rather then the system im using...

Beer was bottled almost a week and a half ago and had a final abv of 17%. After bottling was finished i saved a little bit to try. Tastes of strong alcohol and raspberries but was not carbonated so we shall see how it turns out. Going to wait a couple of days to crack open a bottle and going to...