Recent content by webnmar

If this is the Triple Tippel, I am wondering how you did it in two months, when the instructions recommend 6 months or more in the bottle. Maybe your "really nice beer" will actually make it to style aftet 6 months in the bottle. Remember to all those doing Mr. Beer, Time is your friend...

18,097 Gals. +5 With the variation of about 1/2 Gal of Cranberry juice added. ---------- 18,102Gals.

Although a slight variant to his recipe, I used 1/3 Centennial, 1/3 Amarillo, and 1/3 Cascades for each hop addition, it was the rest of the recipe to a "T" 3355 +5 Gal _______ 3360 Gal.

18,022 +5 Gals. Cran-ApfelWein _________ 18,027

27,556 + 5 Gals Saranac Surgical Stealth Ale + 5 Gals EdWort's Cran-ApfelWein ____________ 27,566

I sheepishly stand corrected. :drunk: After posting, I looked back in my notes and found that the boil was supposed to be 70. Turns out, I did 90 minutes for mash and boil. The good news is I had my first one last weekend and it is fantastic, so my mistakes didn't create a poor result...

Hammy, I assume that is your method. Fermentation time and temp is different for EdWort as well. For Nephilim, yes, EdWort's boil time on his original recipe was 90 minutes. That is what I used as well.

Ref: LCTitan, unclebrew, and others For temp control, refrigerate your water ahead of time. I have 1 Gal containers (left over from Apple Juice for EdWort's ApfelWein), I store StarSan in them mostly, but for brew day, I pour out into my bottling bucket, fill the jugs with my water, put it...

I sampled my first opening of EdWort's Oktoberfest Ale this weekend. WOW, WOW, WOW. I did a taste comparison with several other commercial Octoberfests and found that EdWort's recipe stood up nicely with all of them. It was my favorite of what I compared it to. (Sam Adams Octoberfest, Spaten...

cleaning up some math 22226.5 +4 missed by KittypawBrew +150 missed by Castawayales Total is 22380.5 Gals now

22017.75 +2 Gal - Tripel Tipple +2 Gal - Russian Imperial Stout 22021.75 Gals.

I would say, even if you wait for a kit, you should still get a hydrometer, bottling bucket w/wand, and an auto-siphon. They will help a great deal even with this batch. You can never have enough buckets, you will most likely break a hydrometer, and you can always use 2 siphons for bigger...

Your temperature fluctuations are really going to impact the flavor of your beer. I would try making the "son of fermentation chiller". That removes the water and sanitizer problem. Plans can be found on this site, costs about $45. Also, I recommend you go buy an auto-siphon and bottling...

You can buy 6 thermometers and get "at least" 6 different readings. It is also very specific to location and liquid immersion. I recommend using a thermalwell or something like it so you can put the thermometer right in the liquid, that is you closest and most stable temperature. After...

17,557 +5gal of EdWort's Oktoberfest Ale (3rd AG) 17,562