Recent content by rich5665

That particular batch worried me. So I stuck in a corner and forgot about it. The bottles exploding solved that mind slip quickly.

I lost an entire case of English Brown Ale because I bottle to soon. Weird thing is though, it was almost a year before the bottles exploded. Scared the living hell out of me. There was glass and ale all over the cellar floor.

A little over a year ago I brewed an English Brown Ale. I waned to use my Mr. Beer Fermenting barrels so I had my local shop put together a 2.5 Gallon all grain recipe for me. The brewing went great an the wort was transferred to my little brown barrel. Just short of 2 weeks into fermenting I...

Skitter do you have plans for your fermentation chamber? I want to build one for my LBKs, I've been using coolers as chambers since I started.

There is a video on YouTube of someone doing exactly that. 2 gallon jug of spring water add the extract shake to mix, the add yeast. A balloon with a pin hole is placed offer the opening to prevent infection and allows carbon dioxide to escape.

I put a call out on Facebook to my friends and family for Beer and Wine Bottles. A friend sends me a text that her Aunt's neighbor has some Wine Bottles that he doesn't want and would I be interested. So, never turning down a freebie I said sure. I am now the proud owner of 25 One Gallon Amber...

Just made a 5 gallon batch this evening. I wound up using powdered sugar instead of dextrose so we'll see how it turns out.

Brewed up some this evening 28558.5 + 5 = 28563.5 gallons

This past weekend I was able to finally brew up a 5 Gallon Batch of Mixed Berry Mead. This is from a recipe I found on the interweb. 15# Clover Honet 3# Mixed Berries 3 Gallons Spring Water 2 Packet Lavlin D-47 Wine Yeast I brought 1 gallon of water to a boil, removed from heat. At 60...

I've had a really great commercial mead that I can't remember the name of and a really bad mead that I can't forget. Especially since it's brewed in my home state. Jersey Devil mead almost turned me off from mead.

Save the jars, they make great drinking glasses. You're in a college right, so ask your fellow students to save their wine bottles for you. Then clean and sanitize the bottles. DON'T USE BLEACH. Get a a cheap mini-corker, some corks and bottle wax either on line or local home brew shop. Fill the...

Correct 458.5 + 5 = 463.5 Sorry I didn't see the error in the post above my original.

5 Gallons Mixed Berry Malomel 488.5 + 5 = 493.5

There's nothing wrong with Mr. Beer Kits. The extracts are better as well as the yeast since Cooper Brewing took them over. I use the Little brown Kegs to ferment small batches of All Grain BIAB, Partial Mashes and Extracts. Check out Mr. Beer Fans or the Mr. Beer Community if your not feeling...

+2.5 gallons Pumpkin Pie Spice Milk Stout =15398.0