Recent content by Richard Roehl

For degassing, yes your mash paddle on an electric drill will work, but there are two things to consider: 1) I can't imagine this method is not introducing air into the finished product. You effectively create a vortex similar to a yeast starter on a stir plate. I'm not saying that it's going...

Henry Weinhard was a brewer and a soda maker the mid 1800's. Molsen Coors owns the rights to the name now so they rotate it in and out of markets just like they do with numerous other names. The beer used to be common in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1990's, but I haven't seen it in quite...

Over the past year I've gone through 7 iterations of trying to clone Blanche De Bruxelles Witte Beer. I'm not a big fan of the wit style but I've always really liked BdB and now that I've gone through this exercise, I think the reason why I like it is due to how sweet and fruity it is compared...

If you are still around, I was wondering how it turned out. I made my first Cellar Craft kit (Grenache-Syrah-Mourvedre) but didn't measure the pH and TA since it was my first wine making experience and I didn't understand their importance. After 6 weeks in the bottle I'm adding .75 grams of...