Search results

When I first got my co2 setup, I think I got about four kegs of force carb and serving out of it. Wanting to get more kegs into my fridge, I got a manifold. Around then I got a my first refill of my tank. Within one keg, its was dead! I was, needless to say, frustrated. I got the tank refilled...

About a month ago I brewed this up: Ingredients: 11*lb American 2-row .75*lb Crystal 40 .75*lb Cara-Pils® Malt .1*oz Zythos (10.9%) - added during boil, boiled 50*m 1*oz Zythos (10.9%) - added during boil, boiled 15*m 1*ea Whirlfloc Tablets (Irish moss) - added during boil, boiled 15*m...

I brewed the NB De Konnick kit a while back (mid jan 2012). Round 4.5% abv. After kegging and bottling a few, some went to the fridge and some to the freezer. It was good back in the keg, not great. Not the best flavor profile. I just cracked a bomber open: wow! Really great, concentrated...

Back in November, I took a crack at a Pliny clone. Transferring the beer to the carboy brought alot of hop matter into the carboy (filter got stuck so I had to knock it a few times to loosen it up). After fermentation, I cooled and racked to a keg. In the keg I hit it with 3 oz a whole leaves in...

So I have been a big fan of better bottles since I started brewing. Typically after a brew, I let the carboy soak in hot water and some one step to break apart the krausen that stuck the top of the carboy. I have noticed that with my last batch, after rinsing out the one step, there are a bunch...

About a year ago I brewed Northern Brewer's Petit Saison with 3711. I loved it, definitely my most successful beer to date. Since getting into all grain, I wanted to brew this beer again. I added a bit more grain and changed the hopping scheme to bring out hoppiness as I thought the yeast...

I made my first AG (woohoo!) a few weeks ago: jamil's evil twin. I have been hesitant to make a hoppy beer because people say to keg those, and I can't get kegging gear yet. The beer is carbing up now, but doesn't smell all that hoppy. I figured with all the late addition hops it would be...

Wondering if anyone would like to do an experiment with me: If you use BTF Iodophor out there, would you mind checking the pH of a freshly made batch? I have read all the popular posts out there (like http://www.bayareamashers.org/content/maindocs/iodophor.htm) that say BTF doesn't need to have...

Hi, I have a new batch of IPAs I made and I would like to send these to someone who could give me a serious critique; along the lines of a BJCP review. There is never a good competition in my part California (Santa Barbara), and I would have to wait a month or so to mail the beer to a out of...

So I understand the need to get some o2 into your wort: yeast growth. The yeast eat sugar + o2 = more yeast. But if you pitch in the right amount of yeast, like what mr. malty says, how much growth really needs to happen? No aeration of wort means some struggling yeast, too much and there will...

So a few months ago I mentioned in a thread that a high gravity stout (NB Big Honkin' Stout with US-05 yeast) seemed to finish with a high gravity (probably because the yeast just gave up) and had a nasty plastic aroma. Some bottles had it more than others, and it depends on who drank it. Some...

Moved.

My fifth homebrew is a NB Big Honkin Stout extract: http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewing/recipe-kits/extract-kits/extract-ale-kits/big-honkin-stout-extract-kit.html After the boil and around 150F I dropped in the oregon pureed cherries, 1 3lb can. I added enough water to the better bottle to...

Hi All, long time troll, first time poster! These forums are always a wealth of info for my homebrewing needs, and now that my techniques are more refined and my questions more complex I need to stop just reading and get into it! I started brewing about a year ago with a extract kit and...