Recent content by TrekNarrowPaths

Sounds good! Did you come up with a clever name?

All right I want to win the corny dad joke kegger!! My latest brew was an American hefeweisen with starfruit. It was wholesome and yet had that fruit flare that we've all come to love. Perfect for sipping by the poolside and grilling your favorite meats.

Sometimes the ideas are right under our nose and it takes us so long to click. Tragic or ironic? We'll never know.😂 You gotta let me know your end result, bud.

While making my recent wort for a hefeweisen batch I noticed that I had a large bag of carrots in my fridge that weren't going to last for very much longer. So guess what I did...... that's right I threw in a carrot to my boil. Just one. Didn't go crazy. The natural sugars that a carrot contain...

Yes very strange indeed. My best guess is that you left the bags near a sunny window or something and the heat caused the moisture particles inside of the hops to expand; very similar to a bag of popcorn but on a small scale.

Aloha Don, My two cents is this, you can always dilute it with more purified water if you want to lower the gravity. Don't focus so much on the temperature. Hope this helps 👍🏻

I like the boldness of those flavors. Would you be interested in sharing with us the flavor profile breakdown? Meaning can you give us an honest review of it?

Golden Earring' s "Radar Love" comes to mind. Everybody knows that song and it might trigger a happy memory.

That right there is a genuine gem. Nicknames are great when they happen naturally like that. If I may be so bold to say that the Bible has a lot of good inspiration too. I also like to hike and read the Bible, but rarely at the same time. My brew project is called, Narrow Road which comes from...

Kuddos on the german salutation 🎓

Yes I agree with Hotbeer dude/duddette. My school of thought is that the more aeration you have AFTER pitching your yeast then the better the flavor outcome. Now what is a little confusing is the part about not getting outside oxygen into the carboy, yet aeration is in essence oxygen. To...

Holy crapola! Nice

Hi if I may offer my suggestion to your question. The "sweet, off taste" from my experience has come from too much air getting into the fermenter. My brew book calls it, "tanens". I am always disappointed when I get this sour wine-type taste in my beer. To further prevent I just quit messing...

Wow I just had to respond because I recently made a Pilsner too! It was fun to brew a simplified batch and low ABV. White Labs has very good yeast and I too have experienced action right away. Usually dies down after 2 nights. I wouldn't say that it is a run-of-the-mill strand because WL really...

Your profile pic is t..s. I love Office Space.