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You people are Great! I like Big Ball Tic & Bollocks Baltic. Still thinking of a Yoyodine reference like if John Smallberries had a Big brother or something. Anyway it's perking away in the fermenter now. Hope the figs come through.

Made a Chocolate Baltic Oatmeal Porter w/figs tonight. While taking out the hop bag after the boil i saw the image below. I've never seen it look quite this way before. Had to laugh. Now i'm thinking of naming this beer 'Hung Viking' What are your thoughts...

OK here you go. Get the makings for the porter of your choosing. to it add Briess Munich 10L whole grain, 1 lb. Take the Briess 10L and smoke it (the entire 1lb.) for 20 to 70 minutes. Make sure your smoker has COOL billowing white smoke. Don't let the temp get above 200. Use any...

Yes. As an Extract too. Let me dig up my notes and get back to you. Heading out now with the family. BRB

How about a Belgian strong/dark ale or a nice Smoked porter. Think Winter. You'll need a beer that warms you.

I just found this thread, read this thread, and realized there are no results posted! Ugh! Ok, i'll try but with an Extract Brown Ale instead. Hey, it's what i did... We were experimenting with flavors and wanted Graham cracker and a hint of vanilla. I can't remember where we got the recipe...

I see. I'll look into getting a hops bag then. I used to use the grain bag for my hops but then i noticed all the hops that passed through it. That's why i used that sieve. I do believe the aeration was better with it. I'll experiment with both maybe. Thanks everyone.

For what reasons i had i strained my wort through a 200 micron sieve on brew day. It's the sieve i use from my honey extraction. OG was 1.080. Going into the secondary SG was 1.024. I just bottled it and the FG was 1.022. i've never seen a clearer beer! ('Monk's Blood' clone btw). There...

I'm building a smoker for all sorts of things. (trash can) I want to home smoke the grains for my rauch's too. What are you people using for a grate? Will a cookie sheet work? Around what temp should i smoke at? Thanks.

Can i clean the fermenter with bleach before putting it away. Just secondaried my 6th batch. Won't be using the fermenter (6.5 gal plastic brew bucket) for at least 2 months. i always soap clean then starsan all equip between batches. Would like to super clean after the 6 brews. Thanks...

so i started to use a small dowel as a push rod and a piece of fabric soaked in starsan. It didn't work that great. Then i got a piece of #12 wire out of a length of romex. Made a loop at the end and tied the fabric patch to it. Pulled it thru the tubing and it was clean. The #12 wire is...

I can't believe i did this! I work in research for God's sake! CHECK THE CALIBRATION ON EVERY THERMOMETER YOU USE! I don't like the stem thermometers so i got a dial version. Why i never checked it against the mercury one i can't explain. I found out it was 8 degrees off (low) during a...

I like the gun cleaning kit idea; though i won't be using my regular kit. I can pick up some narrow rope at the hardware store soak it in Starsan then pull it through with a dowel and be done. Thanks for the advice y'all.

So should i replace all my tubing after every few brews or is there a way to clean these things?

What is the lowest temp the top-off water an be? I had real trouble keeping my fermenter below 72 degrees this summer. If i can chill the top-off water then maybe the heat from the initial fermentation will stay below the 72 degree mark. I did use a fan & water bath (guess I'll add ice to...

Has anyone ever tossed a few oz. of roasted rye into a batch of beer before?? What were the results? *•I'm brewing up an oatmeal porter with dry malt extract. I have rye as well and wonder if i can add it too Thank you kindly.

I'm about to brew a 5 gallon batch of BB Scottish Ale. I also just extracted a bunch of honey from my bees. Could i simply add 8 or so ounces of honey to the batch? At what stage should i add it to the wort? Thanks.

Alright, Thanks.

Got mixed up a little. I took the FG from the bottling bucket after mixing with the priming syrup. Oops! Any ideas on how to figure it out. Oktoberfest LME kit Brew Date - 2/7/2011 OG = 1.056 @ 61°F WK1 SG = 1.016 @ 68°F Into Secondary 2/16/11 Today FG = 1.020 (includes priming...

cleaning process/chemicals = dishwasher sanitized, idofore, rinsed type of beer = Scottish Ale LME kit length spent bottle conditioning = bottled on 1/29/11 No chlorine - well water only Beer tasted great on bottling day. no off flavors Had another one tonight that was good.