Recent content by sroberts

Is there a way to add hop flavoring to commercial or already-brewed beer? A good friend has celiac disease and loves hoppy beer, yet his beer choices are severely limited when we are at the brewhouse. It would be ideal to have a concentrated hop flavoring, where a few drops would improve the...

Very nice! Extra points for the oval label and the suave monkey.

Unlike most of the so-called labels on this thread that have never seen a beer, your's are already the genuine article, having been mated to actual bottles containing actual beer, even if the mating was by unholy union such as tape.

Big thumbs up for an occurrence of a label actually affixed to a beer!! An an excellent one at that.

A labeled beer, even with an unispired label is infinitely better than the best unbeered label. :mug:

I've made many 5g batches 1.056 and under using single smack packs both with and without starters and haven't been able to tell a difference. I take the MrMalty fanboys with a grain of salt. Yeast is the magic that makes the beer but much of what is posted online goes far beyond the advice...

Obvious question but have you checked with local homebrew shops? My shop near Atlanta has better prices than I've been able to find online, plus a large variety and helpful advice. If you're not so fortunate I suggest you order over the phone and/or send email with your shopping list. Homebrew...

I don't think you can go wrong either way. I went with a chest freezer because I found it on Craigslist for $40 and it works great, plus it'll make a nice keezer one day. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/basic-stc-1000-freezer-fermentation-chamber-373850/

Yes, it adds seaweed to your beer!

Long soaks in PBW also can leave a scale that some acid solution like vinegar or starsan must be used to remove. Using PBW doesn't prevent this problem.

Yesterday I opened a bottle of Westmalle Tripel Trappist Ale, 9.5% ABV, bottled on 2/14/13, poured half a glass, took a whiff and I recognized the nose immediately, matching a bandaid flavored ale I brewed last year. The taste confirmed the nose. I did a side by side with my bandaid brew...

Cheers :rockin: to those excellent brewmasters and bottlers who've recently shown actual labels on actual bottles - mandasaurus_rex, greyfixer, The_Happy_Dachshund_Brewe, itsme_timd, ryden! I've got nothin' for the rest of you bozos.

Hi neighbor! I've brewed several of the Just Brew It all grain recipes and have been happy with all. And the prices are better than anything I've been able to find online.

I don't reuse a capped cap, if you know what I mean. I was referring to placing an uncrimped cap on a swing-top as a lazy way to identify the swing cap brew. This uncrimped cap can be reused to cap a bottle.

Ditto here - I've built up quite a collection of different caps and that's the only thing I usually change. And for the swing tops - now this is lazy.... I simply take a cap corresponding to that brew and rest it on top. I've thought about sticking the caps somehow but then I'd not be able to...