Recent content by Vcreations

i think 1oz of coriander can be a bit to much, but i have tried it before and did like it (it was a higher abv so it balanced well)! my wife loved it, but i prefer a little bit less, say about .5oz to .75oz for 5 gallons. I've even tried putting a little bit of cracked black peppercorn in it as...

My local homebrew store's grain sheet said they only had White Wheat, so i was gonna go with that, but when i got there they had both so i said screw it and did half white and half red and i must say it was great!!!

I must say the idea of doing a Cherry Bourbon Stout is extremely appealing, do to the fact that i got an early xmas present of a Black Cherry Stout Recipe from AHS from a friend. I know that from my experience with making some mead, I have had great results out of using frozen fruits...

I don't know if this plays into bigbeergeek and jetmac's conversation, but i have noticed that i have gotten a lot more "stronger" in flavor beers with my lower efficiency ag beers than my partial mash beer. While i was doing partial mash i was at 75% efficiency, but when i switched to ag i got...

ok so after looking into this a bit more, i borrowed a friends refractometer and to my surprise, i was very close to my numbers with my latest batch (one or two points off). So after seeing that, i tested my hydrometer in distilled water and noticed it was siting at 0.992. So i know that a new...

i must say this has been the best hefeweizen recipe i have ever found!!!! this was my fourth hefeweizen (all different, ranging from extract to all grain) and it turned out just beautifully!!!! Edwort i thank you for the recipe, but i added a few more hops to mine (.5 Hallerteau 60mins, .5...

This looks like a great project!!! I can't wait to see what the final product looks like!!

@ajf: #1. I never really have stirred the mash or after i put the sparge water in, so i will give that a try next time. #2. I always thought that 180F was a bit too high, but it is def worth a shot to try!!! #3. I figured i would loose some efficiency due to a higher grain bill, but i've always...

This is my 5th ag batch, but for some reason i'm still getting lower OG's than what beersmith is telling me. For example, i had a mash of 18lbs today, and it should have an OG of 1.079 @ 60% efficiency. However i ended up with an OG reading of 1.065 (right before adding the yeast). When i...

thats what i like to hear!!!!! Will do!!

I was given a vile of White Labs Kolsch yeast (WLP029) from my homebrew store in late August because it was getting close to its "best if used by" date they said. I was planning on doing an Altbeir with it but never got to it so I thought i had thrown it out after the date, but i was cleaning...

I have a feeling the same will happen with me!! and the best part is that most of my friends can barely handle a pale ale, so i know they won't be getting much of this one!!

This looks right up my alley!!! i've been wanting to do a double ipa for awhile and came up with a recipe similar to this but I love the fact that your using Warrior hops the most!!! in mine i'm gonna use 1.5 oz warrior and 1.5 oz of magnum continuously hopped, then throw in about 2oz Amarillo...

ok so an update on that batch! i added a pound of corn sugar to the secondary at the beginning and it brought it up to about 4.7%abv which is nice. It has very little body to it, but some sweetness from the corn sugar, and i also dry hopped it to try and make up for the loss of body and kinda...

UPDATE--- So after putting this in the keg and carbing it, i couldn't wait any longer to see how it tastes!! I must say i was quite surprised with it. There is very little body (almost kinda a watery taste) but that is probably because there was little starch conversion during the soak of the...