Recent content by Shimshon

I learned a few valuable lesson about hop utilization and aging a few years ago. I had just purchased a new wort chiller, and when I put it in the hot wort the intake hose popped off and dumped about a gallon of water in the wort before I stopped it. Several homebrews into the day, we decided...

I'm gonna give it a shot and bottle it. It is very definitely past day four and no longer fermenting, but this cap of stuff is still on there. When I saw the stuff I thought was lacto-something I ignored the whole thing thinking it was a dumper. I took the cover off of it today (several months...

It is a belgian wit. Earlier, it had some oily white stuff on top that looked like some pics i've seen of lacto contamination.

I've heard "never dump it," but I've also never seen a batch of mine look like this. Is this what infected beer looks like? http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/2110/img00046u.jpg http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/7559/img00050z.jpg http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/469/img00051qi.jpg

I saw this show and have two 40-year-old oak trees in the front yard. Here's the plan I have been thinking about. Harvest a boatload of acorns. Leach tannins with water, changing water a few times a day for a few days. Dry acorns. Roast acorns. Rig some kind of oil press (oil content...