Recent content by Pat_Sajak

Neat, I'll prepare a tasting in a while here. It's been so long I forgot how UN-carbonated beer tastes!

Hello Gang, I remember brewing this beer on thanksgiving, of 2007! I just found the secondary, and the bubbler is dry. Should I just dump this stuff? Or give it a quaff and see if it's not vinegar? It stood through IKE, and a few other calamities. The brew was called Diaper pail ale...

I just bottled my creepy cooper's stout that I thought for sure was totally contaminated, after all the airlock and feral airlock water peed into the fermenting brew about 2 times. It actually fermented on Christmas day and the temps ranged from 80 deg to like 50 in a one month settling period...

No I guess I wasn't clear. The first brew was a stout, and I pitched at 80 deg. Then the primary sat in 66 ~ 69 degree environs for about 4 days. The second day was the one with all the bubbling. The initial SG of the Stout was 1.037, after I racked to secondary it was 1.013. I took the...

Hello All, I have read here and there about no need for starters with dry yeast. But I've decided to do one anyway. The reason being is that my first stout from extract seemed to only ferment for a day. I pitched the yeast into a 80 deg F wort, and after about 24 hours got a decent amt of...

Hello all, I've always wanted to brew and finally started. I was thinking winter would be good since our winters are around 65deg down here. I did a Coopers stout, with some extra dark malt from the LHBS. I used spring water at first and sanitized everything real good. I got one full day of...