Recent content by tonkota

awesome. thanks for all the input.

That is good to know, thanks!

Fruit wood seems like a good idea. I was going to use it for fermentation, secondary and aging. Thanks for the input. We will test it with water first of course.

A buddy of mine is interested in making some wooden barrels for his home and asked if I wanted him to try and make one for fermentation. What woods would be interesting? I was thinking spruce or maple. We don't have a lot of hardwood trees in our area so those are a little more expensive...

I picked up my score sheets today, judged by two groups, similar comments. This is not a AHA competition, but still graded within its fruit beer category. Aroma: 3 of 4 points, light, Appearance: 2 of 3 points, good color, slight haze, good head Flavor: 8 of 10 points, light malt/hops, thin...

I don't know all the specifics of the score, but I have a second place ribbon. I'm super stoked. I will have to wait until the fair is over to see the score sheet I suppose, so in a couple weeks I'll know what they liked and didn't.

Thanks! I will post up what the beer scores. I should know by the 9th of September. Paper work had to be in by today, and beers dropped off at the LHBS on the 23rd - 25th of August.

I entered it as a fruit beer. If I had entered it as a Kolsh, some poor judge might have a heart attack and call Germany on me :D http://www.spokanecounty.org/Fair/SIF/data/pdf/Competitions/beer11.pdf I'm super excited, I don't know what to expect at all. I plan on going to the fair the...

I've been brewing for about three years, made some good beer, and a couple great beers and one really crappy beer that I can't drink and I can't seem to bring myself to pour out. Anyway, I made a beer, Huckleberry Kolsh that I feel turned out this time. This is my second try with...

I'm thinking about making some wine this summer. Can I bottle wine in 22oz beer bottles? Or do they need to be corked bottles? I have a place to store them in the basement on their sides.

dumbest post ever! Nice all those verses came from the King James version, which King J named after himself, plus a book in it......stoopid.

5 gallons Blond Bock 16854 + 5 = 16859

I can still carb with corn sugar or DME or honey etc. right? I don't have to use the bottle?

I found this, is it correct?

I went to a Barley Wine (commercially available stuff) tasting last Tuesday and had a very good time. The host had a keg of his stout also out. I liked the setup! Now I'm thinking about kegging my homebrew. One keg looks easy to set up. Multiple kegs looks more difficult. Is there a...