Search results

Hey everyone! I just wanted to drop in and let you all know I'm working on launching a web application dedicated to craft beer trading called The Beer Exchange. It comes complete with custom designed ISO (in search of) and FT (for trade) lists, partner matching, trade proposal and management...

Hey everyone, Last year I tried to do a very simple cider recipe on the fly and it didn't turn out that well. It was in an older plastic bucket that I didn't use much anymore so I figured I'd let it sit. Almost a year later I've sampled it a bit and it's turned into, well, something...

Hey everyone, Getting ready to bottle this stout I made and 2.5 gallons of it are getting coffee added. I cold steeped a bunch of coffee grounds of a couple different coffees and it only yielded 1 fluid ounce of extract. I know this won't be enough since I did some taste-testing with my...

Hey everyone, At the end of November I made a very (very) basic cider and blindly took a yeast recommendation from someone. The batch was going to be an experiment anyway, but in retrospect the wine yeast recommendation made it a big flop. Now a couple months later it still tastes real...

Hey all, I live in Charlotte but have some friends who live up in the mountains in Asheville and they make an absolutely deadly apple pie moonshine. I'm not talking about the stuff you get from the liquor store, this is the real deal. It tastes eerily like home made apple pie and will...

Hey everyone! I enjoyed the last imperial stout recipe I came up with and I want to refine it. The first time I did it I added cocoa nibs and a vanilla bean soaked in vodka to the secondary. I like it, but I want to see what it's like without additions and with other additions. I am doing...

Hey everyone, Took my chocolate stout that had finished primary and added 6 pounds of raspberries (frozen, thawed, then heated with some water to sanitized) as well as 10 ounces of cocoa nibs soaked in vodka with one vanilla bean. I added all the secondary additions to my 6.5 gallon glass...

Hey everyone, It's a bit of a long story, but bear with me please. I brewed a chocolate stout and expected some violent activity due to the OG. I was working from the apartment and early this morning I heard the first couple violent bubbles go into the blowoff container. Fifteen or twenty...

Hey everyone, I've made doggie treats from spent grain for my girlfriend's puppy and since most (or all?) dogs can't handle chocolate, I'd like to prove there is no chocolate in the chocolate malt to ease her mind. It's simply barley that's been kilned for a longer period of time, right? I'm...

Hey all, I should have read up more on using liquid yeast before I started brewing this morning but I didn't. Sigh. Anyway I'm using White Labs London Ale Yeast for a stout I'm making. I put it in the fridge and now that my boil is going I read up on doing starters and see you're supposed to...

Hey everyone! I'm doing my first chocolate stout (chocolate raspberry stout) to be exact. I've decided on 10.0 oz. cocoa nibs soaked in burbon along with 5 pounds of frozen raspberries (thawed repeatedly) added in at secondary. However, I need some help with the grain bill since I've never...

Hey everyone, I like to get as much beer as possible into the bottling bucket (or secondary), but I want my bottled beer to be as clear and yeast-cake free as possible. How much beer do you normally leave sitting on the trub? Best, Mark

Hey everyone, I was thinking of racking into secondary for a hefeweizen just to help with clarity. Can I rack into the bottling bucket with a built in spigot? I feel like the inch of space under the interior spigot opening is perfect go collecting sediment. Thanks for the help! Best, Mark

Hey everyone! I had some good advice on here the other day (and from all the recipes on here too) when I was getting ready to brew my first original recipe. I thought I would post it and get some feedback. I brewed it on Wednesday and it's bubbling away like mad! Hopville Ingredient List...

Hey everyone, I've read directions about rehydrating before pitching yet I've seen videos and read where people just pitch it into the wort straight from the packet. Any advice? I've always rehydrated. Thanks! Mark

Hey everyone, Brew sesh tonight. Pumped. Is there an advantage to bringing 2.5 gallons to a boil, cooling to 160 for steeping, and then re-boiling? Or should I just heat to 160, steep, then boil? Best, Mar

Hey everyone, So I've been putting this recipe together for a while and I think may LDME may not be enough - I've seen some recipes with 12 pounds. Anyone have advice on that? Any thoughts on the amount of hops or hop schedule? Thanks! Ingredients: 6 lbs Light DME .5 lbs Specialty Grains -...

Hey All, This will be my third go at a Jalapeno Ale. The first is bottled, the second in primary and I want this third one to be brewed this week. This is my first attempt at my own recipe the others were tweaks made to a kit. Since I'm a beginner with a beginner's setup I'll be sticking...

Hey all, Want to build my own recipe using Beer Calculus and I'm starting with some base ingredients from an extract kit, however, the kit ingredient list just says "1 bag" when it comes to the specialty grains. It has Crystal Malt 20L, Crystal Malt 40L, Crystal Malt 60L. Does this mean it's...

Just wondering who's around HBT that's in the Charlotte, NC area. Anyone? Always good to connect with locals. Best, Mark