Recent content by Spaceball1

Awesome replies folks! Much appreciated!

So the wife and I made our first cider last night. We actually made four one-gallon batches in order to compare results from various yeasts, but set that aside for now.. Fermentation was already rocking along this morning in all of the fermenters so we've got a good start. We like dry ciders so...

Hi folks, I've been brewing beer & wine from kits for a while now with mostly good results and no disasters. I'm starting to enjoy ciders (especially dry) a bit more so naturally I'm interested in brewing my own. I'm set up with a single keg now but I'll be upgrading to a multi-keg keezer...

Yes, pellets. Sorry, I meant to include that in the OP but forgot.

Ok, I finally got back to brewing last night.. Batch #5, AHS promotional IPA.. This used 5oz of hops, and during the boil I noticed that there was alot of hop residue on the side of the pot during the boil. I stirred it back into the boil every 10 minutes or so, thinking that I don't want to...

A couple of weeks ago, I moved my Sierra Nevada PA clone into secondary for dry hopping. This was the first time I used my better bottle for anything other than bottling, and so I goofed up a little and put my filled airlock on before I picked it up and moved it to fermenting storage. The...

I would agree except for their alcohol boost. In terms of OG, FG and taste, the two batches I've done with their straight up extract kit have been right on the money. The two I tried the boost on were drinkable but way off target.

I'm probably going to start brewing some bigger beers in my next couple of batches, so I'll probably want to get a BO tube rigged up. Problem is, I have a pail fermenter. What type of tubing & stopper should I use?

Awesome.. Exactly what I needed.. Any particular kind of DME?

So I was at a store last night, and they had a pretty good selection of Rogue bombers. I saw one that I hadn't tried (somer ale: http://www.rogue.com/beers/somer-ale.php), and noticed that it actually said "Unfiltered" and "Pacman Yeast" on the label. Then I looked at the bottom of the bottle...

I tried it over the weekend, and loved it. Anyone have a clone recipie for it yet?

Err.. like i said, I don't even know how to describe the taste. It's just, something. Sorry i can't be more specific. I use gallon jugs of drinking water for my brews. I boil with three and stick two in the freezer for top off water. When the boil is complete, I put the pot containing the...

I read the yeast washing thread, and I think that I might order liquid yeast for my next batch and then wash it out to save the $$ for next time. We'll find out if that does any better.. Are my temps really Ok? I thought 62-68 ambient was too warm since the fermenting wort is going to be 4-6...

I read the first 35 pages of this but didn't see anything regarding a couple of questions I had.. First off.. Just to be clear, I pour the sterilized & cooled water directly on to my trub/cake at the bottom of my primary, right? Using a pic from the OP.. So immediately prior to this...

I have one bottle of my first batch (NXNW Amber Ale) left and about half of my 2nd batch (Real Ale PA) left. 3rd batch will be in the bottles early next week. First batch was very reminiscent of the brew it was trying to clone. The second - not so much. I did a taste test last night, and the...