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  1. bigolbigbelly

    St. Louis Area: Free Hallertau & Saaz hops!

    Tom Seiff at Anheuser- Busch, St Louis- Please bring your own containers for your free Hallertau and Saaz hops. Enjoy your visit and the hops. *************************************************************** Attention Home Brewers- Come join us for the Great Hop Give-Away! Saturday Dec...
  2. bigolbigbelly

    Parti-Gyle Extract Brewing...Kind of?

    So, I find myself having less time for brewing lately and have been brewing more extract batches then all grain. I was brewing an all grain batch today and had the idea of running another six gallons of 175 degree water through the grains that I just sparged then adding light LME to it. Making...
  3. bigolbigbelly

    Brewery Sticker Swap

    I decorate my kegerator with stickers from as many breweries as I can find. Starting this thread to see if anyone would like to swap some stickers if you do the same and have extras. I currently have extras of: Grand Teton Lagunitas Red Hook Ska Avery TommyKnocker Post the extras you have and...
  4. bigolbigbelly

    Who has been to the Guinness StoreHouse in Ireland

    I am headed to the U.K & Ireland over the holidays. Started looking at the site for the Guinness Storehouse and realized it is not actually the brewery that you tour. What are your thoughts if you have been on the tour, worth it or not?
  5. bigolbigbelly

    Fruity English Ale

    I love the taste of a fruity yeast strain in a English ale. What is the fruitiest strain you have found and what temp did you ferment at?
  6. bigolbigbelly

    Minimum boil time for extract brewing

    So, I was moved to graveyard shift at work and have found my time to brew is almost none. This is going to force me to move to all Extract brewing. I brewed 5 extract batches before moving to all grain when I first started brewing, So I am not as familiar with the logistics. I recently came...
  7. bigolbigbelly

    Nitrogen with portable CO2 charger

    Has anyone tried to push a stout from a keg with a portable CO2 charger? http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewing/soda-keg-co2-charger.html Not even sure if it would make any difference.
  8. bigolbigbelly

    Igloo Industrial 5 Gallon Beverage Cooler

    Company Website - http://www.igloocommercial.com/products/WaterCoolers/400Series/177/ Manufacturer - Igloo Igloo delivers cold, clean water. Rugged, durable Igloo 400 Series Industrial Strength Water Coolers keep water cold, clean and available. Built for the Real World, the 400 Series takes the...
  9. bigolbigbelly

    Igloo Industrial 5 Gallon Beverage Cooler

    Company Website - http://www.igloocommercial.com/products/WaterCoolers/400Series/177/ Manufacturer - Igloo Igloo delivers cold, clean water. Rugged, durable Igloo 400 Series Industrial Strength Water Coolers keep water cold, clean and available. Built for the Real World, the 400 Series takes the...
  10. bigolbigbelly

    Post your favorite Yeast Web links

    I was looking at my saved links for yeast and wondered what links others might have. Maybe even get a good sticky for yeast information. I am staring it off - Post your favorite links regarding yeast : Wyeast- Home Brewing Yeast Strain Guide http://www.wyeastlab.com/hb_yeaststrain.cfm...
  11. bigolbigbelly

    Questions on SMaSH brewing

    Searched a lot of threads and did not find what I was looking for. I want to start doing one to two SMaSH brews a month so I can get a better concept of how to formulate my own recipes. I've been brewing all-grain recipe kits and recipes I've found on the web since August of this year ...
  12. bigolbigbelly

    Liquid side leak

    I've been kegging for a few months. Now have one keg that is pouring beer out of the middle of the liquid side quick disconnect. I can feel the qd snap down on the post. Tried another liquid qd and have the same issue. Replaced and lubed the o-ring on the top of the post, still leaks. Nothing...
  13. bigolbigbelly

    Dip tube too short?

    I recently bought a keg and realized when I got home that the dip tube only goes halfway to the bottom of the keg. I think I already know the answer but do I need to replace the tube ? Can't think of how all of the beer would dispense with it like that. :confused:
  14. bigolbigbelly

    O'Dell 90 Shilling Clone help

    :confused:I have been looking for a 90 Shilling clone but have not been able to find one. I was able to find on another forum where someone emailed Doug O'Dell gave him the percentages of the grain bill as follows. 90 Schilling has about 27 IBU's and starts at 1.054, w/malt % as follows: 75%...
  15. bigolbigbelly

    Made 5 gallon batch for 6 gallon recipe

    Just brewed an all-grain pale ale recipe yesterday. Took my SG and it was way higher then the recipe says it should be. Mine was 1.063. Recipe says it should be 1.054. I then realized I made a bone head move and brewed for a 5 gallon batch instead of the recipe calling for a 6 gallon batch. Used...
  16. bigolbigbelly

    Cold Conditioning Questions

    A friend of mine just donated a old fridge to me for brewing. I a bit low on funds right now so I cannot buy a fridge temperature controller yet. So starting on lagers seem out of the picture for now since the highest I can get the fridge is about 46º-48º. From what I have read this is too low...
  17. bigolbigbelly

    Repitching yeast- what style to do after a cream ale?

    Hello everyone, I am a new brewer and new to this forum. I just bottled my first cream ale this past Sunday. I saved the left over yeast from my brew in a sanitized jar and put it in the fridge. I want to user this yeast after my next batch (a partial grain IPA) and I am looking for a...
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