Recent content by starlifter737

Split the batch. I like that. I just guessed that it would be an even race but one would win over and overwhelm the other. Plus there would be no way to replicate it. thanks

Has anyone experimented with using two yeast strains? I won't do it as my first all grain try but I was thinking of eventually doing a wheat beer but using both the american yeast and the german yeast to get a result somewhere in the middle. Thoughts???

I brewed using three vanilla beans split, scraped and added during the last 15 minutes of the boil. I just transferred out of the primary after ten days of unbelievably vigerous fermentation. (It looked like it was boiling for about two days.) If this stuff tastes anything like it smells...

If You Knew Then What You Know Now... What equipment would you have liked to have had starting out. You know, you bought a kit and then upgraded later and wished you had had it from the beginning. I'll start. A ten gallon brewpot with spigot... What else?

The Tubes Remote Control "Turn me on"

Raceskier, Is the flow rate good with a hepa in the air path?

If you have a ported BB, how do you add/mix the priming sugar prior to bottling? Do you boil it, cool it off, pour it in and gently swirl till it is mixed? I can't see spening the money on a ported bottle and then using a bucket with a spigot.

OK....I'm convinced. I'll wait to brew a the carmel ale. It looks like I'll be waiting awhile, that seems just a little more advanced than my experience will allow. Just how long will these beans keep anyway?

Hello everybody, This is a great forum. Thanks to everyone for answering the same questions over and over again. I am aiming for a hint of an aroma of Vanilla in my IPA. I am planning to add three split beans during the last five minutes of the boil. It is a five gallon batch. Will...