Recent content by The_Huisvrouw

Hi everyone, I've set up a poll on my blog (which is largely but not exclusively about brewing) and would like to solicit your feedback/suggestions about what I should brew for the holidays. I've been a little disappointed with some of the spicy/infused beers I've tried so far (pumpkin; green...

Thanks! Simplest really does equal best, innit? Do you think flower hops will behave as well as pellet hops as far as sinking obediently to the bottom? StarSan=iodophor? ...and tell me, if you have a minute, how your number codes next to your various batches work?

Hey, I have two questions today. I'm just about to brew a batch of chile ale using a recipe from an old issue of Zymurgy. The instructions say to dry hop in the primary w/ dried Sante Fe chiles. What do I need to do to sanitize them first, or can I just toss them in? Second: I've only...

OK, I never thought a week ago that this would be the case, but 6 days after pitching the yeast, I'm still seeing bubbles in the airlock 5 or 6 times a minute. This is the first batch I've made where fermentation didn't seem to subside after a day or two, and while I know it's best to take it...

I just want to say that I LOVE this yeast. I've made 11 or 12 batches so far, and in all of them, the fermentation started and ended FAST. I was able to transfer a batch of Irish Red Ale to my secondary after just 3 days--but this one, that started perking on Saturday night, is still bubbling...

no, no, I meant a bubble a second. Tick, tick, tick....

It's alive!! :fro: Th'usband took me out to dinner last night to prevent me from doing harm to myself or that wort, and by the time we came back (say, 5 or 6 hours after I pitched the yeast), fermentation was starting. It's ticking along at about a bubble a minute right now. Do I still...

sigh. Well, I'm already ahead of you on the HAHB part, just having a little more trouble with the R. I'll keep you posted.

OK, I won't bore you with all the tales of what went wrong as I brewed today, but I could just cry about the end of the story: Was trying to make a Saison. Had some trouble locating Wyeast 3724 and then when I did find and order it, it had to come clear across country. It was in transit for 4...

Wow, that sucks. And that is not at all what I wanted to hear today on this, my first day using a glass carboy. Things already seem inauspicious. My saison yeast self-activated en route, and I also just had my first boil over. Sigh.

Hi, I have been brewing for just a couple of months but recently got a second fermenter so that I could graduate to two-stage brewing. Forgot to order a second airlock for it, so I did last night online and noticed a little caveat that you are supposed to use spirits or sanitizer in there. I...

Howdy Orpheus. Thanks for the link to my site. I've been hoping to attract other homebrewers to it, because I'm pretty new to the hobby and have LOTS of questions. I hope all of you who stopped by will continue to check in on me now & again, and I'll certainly show my face here. In the meantime...

I'm new to the sport but have actually been trolling for advice via a blog that I started to talk about brewing but have expanded to include all things DIY--which in my case also includes cooking, knitting, sewing, and the translation of an obscure 1937 Dutch novel about Mexico. Yesterday I got...