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Seeing if anyone on her has a spicy HOT andouille sausage link recipe. I plan to do a 60/40 or venison to pork mix and smoking these.

A heads up for the sour lovers out here. Love2brew has bug country east coast yeast available as of 3:14 pm today. I just ordered a vial after almost a year of looking. Just thought I'd let ya know Dan

As title says looking I buy a 1/2 barrel keg intact with top and all . Prefer no damage but minor stuff is fine. Please let me know I'm in NE Ct!

Well I decided to go ahead and try making some kombucha tea. I picked up a bottle of Reeds gojiginger tea as it stated it had a live culture and couldn't find any original , plain tea. I made up a starter of black tea with cane sugar and now almost a week with the reeds tea , i'am starting to...

Hey everyone I'm in the middle of building my propane fired single tier stand. I will be using 3 bg14 burners and want to eventually add a Honeywell gas valve with standing pilot for the HLT & MLT. My question is for the temp controllers I was looking at the love ts3's and then came across the...

Well I finally got sick of using a ghetto gravity system. It basically consisted of mash tun on top of patio table---->boil kettle on burner---->to CFC on steps to fermenter. I had been looking all over for weeks at designs and what I want, I bought 48 feet of 2x2 steel tubing for the...

I live in Scotland which is in Windham county, I've tried looking in the past for info about a brew club but have had no such luck. Anyone know of one? Dan

I have a question for the more experienced sour brewers. I did'nt realize it but one of the packs of Pedio i bought from my LHBS is dated 15Jun2009. I know YIKES I did'nt notice it till a few months after i got it. It has always been refrigerated , my question is should i make a starter and see...

Well I finally got around to brewing up my base beer for the lambic project. I did 10 gallons total, half in a old old barrel and other in a carboy. The one in the barrel is going to be a straight lambic maybe blended down the road. The beer in the carboy is going to eventually have fruit added...

Hi everyone, So I plan on brewing a 10gallon batch or straight lambic and splitting it into 2 different batches. One fruit and one straight lambic beer. Now I came up with a simple recipe.on beersmith but just wanted to throw it out there and see if it sounds right. 12# of 2-row 6.5# of...

Hi everyone, I recently picked up a used 5 gallons barrel from my LHBS for placing a lambic in it as this barrel has no oak flavor. Now for the past 2 weeks the barrel has been leak free until yesterday, I made up a soda ash solution in hot water and dumped into barrel. That's when the leak...

Well I plan to be brewing a 10 gallon split batch of a lambic in the next few weeks. In the mean time I have been drinking a variety of lindemans and pitching the dregs into a mason jar along with a dreg from a bottle of Brux Beer. I then made up a starter wort of 1.030 and pitched the mason jar...

Ok so this is what happened I made a 1 L starter with WL Irish ale. I cold crashed the 1 L after it was done and today I stepped it up to a 2L in a growler. Now I have a blowoff set up into a beaker and it's crazy the amount. Is this a common problem with healthy yeast in a starter? I also...

So Im still new to lambics but have been buying different kinds and trying them out. At first it was a awkward Experience , totally something I didn't expect. I tried a cuvee Rene for my first which was a sour slap in the face haha , now I'm drinking a framboise by lindemans. As I drink...

I made this starter with year old irish ale yeast from a stout I had made. I was doing this as an experiment to test how viable the yeast was. There was only a small thin line of white yeast in the mason jar before I pitched. It has been on the stir plate for 30 hours now and looks to me like...

So what i did for my recipe was . 4 gallons of musselman cider 2 lbs of brown sugar Nottingham Ale Yeast My O.G. was at 1.066 I let it sit in the primary bucket for 10 days. I just Transferred it over in secondary ( glass carboy) took a gravity reading of the cider before...

So its on its 2nd full day of fermenting and smells of sulfur. This is a by product of the yeast i would assume? Ive brewed beer and has'nt smelled this before, Is this normal for Cider to do this at first? Im a newb to brewing still so bare with me. Thank you

So i got a new batch going after my first attempt was my fault at bad cider. Im using the Musselmans Cider brand , brown sugar , and nottinghams ale yeast. I did the following add 2 lbs of brown sugar to 4 gallons of cider. I heated 1 gallon with the sugar to get it dissolved. My...

Well yesterday was brew day, I had bought one of the True brew Extract kits of Amber Ale. So yesterday i sanitized everything and made sure it was clean of anything. The boil of the wort went well and i was able to cool it in water bath in about half hour time. I made sure it was cool before...

Hi everyone i'm new to the board and recently just got into brewing. I made my first beginner mistake, Bought cider with Preservative's in it and made a 5 gallon batch . I put 2 lbs of brown sugar in heated it with 1 gallon of cider and let it cool to pitchable temps. I pitched my Liquid...