Search results

I have just started using a refractometer. I have noticed if I set it down after taking a gravity reading, and look at it again 10 minutes later with the same sample on the glass, I have magically gained 3-5 points. Why? I figure even a boiling sample cools almost instantly since it is just a...

I am using my digiboil with mash pipe for the first time today. There are 2 gallons of dead space before I even get to the false bottom of the mash pipe. I assume I need to add 2 gallons to my strike water volume? I am using a pump to recirculate.

I gifted myself a Mark 2 pump for Christmas, and it has made my brew day much simpler and safer. However, I would love some input on using it with my mash. Previous, I relied in gravity to drain the tun. Is there any drawback to pumping it out? Should I pump it slowly or empty the MLT as fast as...

Got the bottle, not brewing enough to keg right now. $50, must be local pickupor will deliver nearby or meet.

Getting ready to fire up the smoker. Figure I start at midnight, the brisket should be good to go by dinnertime tomorrow. Plan on throwing on a couple of racks of ribs on at about noon, too. Old pic of the smoker....

Free to HBT members I have several hundred bottles. Many de-labeled, most aren't. I am moving in the next couple of weeks, and have a fridge for my kegging setup now, so come and get 'em! Call me at 254-423- three three four one or email to [email protected], or just PM me (but email is...

The wife and I are escaping Killen for spring break and heading for the hill country. Anybody up for a meetup Tuesday 3/16?

Ingredients Amount Item Type % or IBU 7.00 lb Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 66.67 % 2.00 lb Pilsner (2 Row) Ger (2.0 SRM) Grain 19.05 % 0.75 lb Carafa III (525.0 SRM) Grain 7.14 % 0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 4.76 % 0.25 lb Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 2.38...

I like dark beers. I like beers you cannot see through. But you know what is really good? Apfelwein poured over thinly sliced strawberries. I think I may be drunk. I have have a job interview with the police department in 10 hours. Oops. Come on liver!!! Do your thing. Maybe just one more.

Looks like I am pushing my luck with the beer gods again! I had slowed down on my beermaking recently. I had planned on making Yooper's Marzen/ Octoberfest umm.....last year some time. I had 2 bags of the grain bill for the recipe pre-ground at Austin Homebrew Supply. Well, a mouse found...

I have been wanting to start smoking, and real bbq-ing, and the opportunity finally came up! I got an Oklahoma Joe's Longhorn from my work. It had only been used a few times, but has been left outside a little while, so I need to knock off some rust.

I haven't been around here much lately. All the typical busy life stuff, work, kids, school. Haven't brewed much either. It hasn't just been that, though. I though I had overcarbonated SEVERAL batches of beer, and hadn't been sampling my brews much either. Seemed every time I poured a drop...

Meeting up at the Flying Saucer tonight- 6:30 ish! :mug:

Today is the anniversary of the fall of the Alamo. I will be drinking several homebrews (and possibly some whiskey) in memory of the fallen heroes who, with their lives, helped secure Texas Independence. San Antonio and the Alamo played a critical role in the Texas Revolution. In...

Wow, I haven't brewed for almost 5 months. Makes me sad. Between work, school, kiddos, and all the other excuses I could think of I haven't been brewing. Heck, I couldn't even motivate myself to rack my last pale ale of the yeast in the plastic carboy into glass, much less bottle it. We will...

Ouch. That was the Aggis worst loss to the longhorns (t.u.) since 1898 or so. Yese 18, not 19. Dennis franchione should be shot. look at our recruiting. a perrinial top 10 team in the 90's. bastard. Hope Mcgee kikcs ass in the NFL. We will suck next year, too. Mike Sherman better be...

I got another 4 oz out of my first year cascade today, and I think it is about time to tuck her in for the winter. I am about 3 weeks away from mean date of first frost, so I figured it is about time to cut her back and mulch over the rhizomes. How far should I cut it back tis far south...

So who is up for raiding the Flying Saucer Saturday, November 8th, down in Austin? :tank:

:mad: Great. made it to 30 batches before having to dump one. Just went to move the bucket out of the chest freezer, and the blowoff jug is empty. Blowoff tube sucked half a gallon of starsan back into the beer. Freakin' beerstarsanwater is an inch over the krausen line.

Never had this problem before! On my last 2 beers, I pour pure foam from the bottle. Normal pop when I remove the cap, no foam-over, but as soon as I pour it in the glass, it all turns to foam. I opened a 4 month old bottle (been bottled for 4) of my imperial amber, and it did the same...