Recent content by SeattleBrewer

Sitting on my buddies couch playing video games and drinking a budlight :-( it's all he had. But I a am definitely thinking about the growler of Mac and Jacks I have at home waiting for me :-)

I have dry hopped a wheat with cascade before and loved the result. That's what I would vote for.

Thanks for all the feedback, Hex here are the answers to your questions. I did sterilize the thermometer before use. I sterilize all the equipment before each batch. Ambient temp in my apartment was hovering around 70 degrees that weekend. Type if yeast was a Belgian. I forget the exact...

Thanks for the questions. The "dirt smell" was like a moldy moss smell. Kinda that dirty small after camping. Just "earthy" and not in a good fresh smelling way. Kinda stagnate. Pitching I used one of the slap packs. I broke the packet about four hours before I even started brewing. I...

So I am pretty sure my last batch was contaminated somewhere along the process. I was brewing a honey lemon wheat beer and I put the honey in at the 15 minute mark (to flame off) and I think that might be where the contamination happened. I also put the lemon zest in at flame off. After four...

I second the buffalo chicken dip. I make that pretty often and there is never any left over. The other two best ones that I make are a homemade spinach dip and a homemade BLT dip.

What kind of white film? Is it foamy or is it shiny and transparent? Is there an off odor or taste?