Recent content by Slimslapper

Cool Thanks for the tip ill change the finishing to EKG. I'm thinking of adding the brown at the end of the boil sorta like candied sugar to keep the flavor but sanitize it. As for your recipe, any thoughts on a conversion from your grain bill? I'm fine with steeping the crystal and the honey...

Hey all, this is my first attempt of designing a beer so have mercy on my relative ignorance :P. I wanted to make a solid extract recipe for a bass clone, with some grain steeping as well. My main reason for making this is my father likes bass, and I am attempting to make a batch for him to get...

I was recently holding a brew day at my parents house with a few of my brewing partners... My father came down with an old apothecary flask full of a maroon liquid that had always been sitting in their house that I grew up in. He proceeded to tell me that it was a home brewed plum wine that a...

Thanks for the feedback Tusch, you scared the heck out of me with the "all wrong" :P I am hoping the fruit will take up some of the remaining space in the 6 1/2 carboy, I might just fill the head space with water after the yeast calms down from being racked onto the sugars from the fruit. Any...

Hey all, first post and first brew here so I was hoping for some advice from the experienced :) So, with a prayer to the Norse gods for mercy I have decided to make a mead for my first brew ever!. Here's what I have so far: 3/06/09- Started must with Yeast: Lalvin 71b 1122 (14% etOH)...