Recent content by txaggie

I might post something back up in a few months. I'm going to have to ship it USPS via an APO address, so sometimes it takes a while, i.e. a month, for things to arrive. I would hate for the yeast to get too hot and ruin the beer in transit (either direction). I definitely appreciate the offer...

Its fine. I'm living in Germany right now and have made two trips up to the Abbey in the last 6 months. I get a lot of great beer, but I haven't been able to try some of the stateside favorites.

Day late and dollar short. I would have traded a Westie 12 for a Heady Topper.

I was just telling my wife how I wish I had gone less towards electrical engineering and more towards a biology/chem related major so I could work at a brewery. I guess this is a perfect chance for me to see if I want to go back to school for it.

I'm with you. I live in Kaiserslautern right now, and even the Bundesliga 2 teams look better than the US's MLS teams. It has been amazing watching the fan reactions to the German victories in person. This whole world cup, when I watch the US coverage, the announcers have underrated...

Our Passing and Ball Control has been horrid, and our star midfielder, Bradley, has been playing awful. Belgium has a lot of talent when they put it together and can be scary good. Hopefully Bradley can get his crap together, but we turn the ball over like nobodies business.

Since it was after the first week, I wouldn't sweat it too much. As others have said, with a belgian, you could get lucky and prevent your yeast from stalling out and who knows what kind if interesting funk you could get from the yeast. In the future do a search for swamp coolers, even if...

It is one of the best beers I've brewed to date! I left mine in the fermenter for about a month before bottling. After a month in bottles it tasted good, but after 6 weeks in bottles it was amazing. It reminds me of Saison du Pont. I don't get a lot of peppery notes, but it has a really nice...

I have learned to wait about a month, regardless. If I try anything at 3 weeks, its that partial bottles that came from what was barely left at bottling time, so I went ahead and bottles it anyways. I recently had a beer, a saison, where I tried a bottle at 3 weeks and 4 days, tasted OK but...

I bought most of my bottles, and they came with free beer inside of them. So I drank the beer, then soaked the bottles in Oxi-Clean, rinsed, and tada! Bottles fit for homebrew. My SWMBO is firmly against me buying empty bottles. SWMBO has let me buy a lot of nice premium beers that were in...

I don't think Grolsch is that bad either. It's not great, but not bad. Kind of like an American Lager, except in a swingtop. Of my swingtops, I have mostly grolsch bottles, but I tried a german beer called Moosbacher that also came in swingtops. The moosbacher bottles were brown and...

I have one in bottles right now, just bottled it sunday. It was a kit from Midwest, but I used the WL565 Saison yeast instead of the yeast that came with it. OG was 1.056, FG was 1.004(way lower than recipe specified). Hard to gauge on just the samples I've tried so far, but when taking...

Still fairly new at this but I haven't been doing simultaneous batches, although I have been staggering them. Meaning I brew a batch, put it in the fermenter, then as soon as I bottle it, days later I brew another batch. This way all I have to have is space for more bottles. After I move to...

I'm with you, My wife and I both love the smell of the kitchen after a boil. Spent grain might be a different story, and fermentation also, but I think Wort Boiling smells like happiness.

I'm still trying to get the pipeline rolling. My first beer was bust, but finally whittled it down, 2nd beer was awesome, but its almost gone. 3rd beer is in bottles (done at end of month) and 4th beer is in fermenter. Once I bottle the 4th batch, I'm going to start my fifth a week later...