Recent content by Afrey1143

Living in the Midwest: you don't need to see much more than the condensation on the car windshield in the morning, to know winter is right around the corner. So as winter shows itself once more, I'm becoming concerned. Along with the transition from extract to all grain brewing, came the move...

If you plan on making 5 gallon batches, which is how most of us start. Don't buy a 5 gallon brew kettle. Make sure it's at least 7.5gallons! Wish someone had told me this before I started!

Let's add it up! 5x "Andrew's Ale" (5 gallon batches) 1x vanilla porter (5gal) 1x Summer Hope Ale (5gal) 1x Belgian Tripple (5gal) 2x Gumball head clone (5gal) 1x Honey Cream Ale (5gal) 1x Honkers Ale clone (6gal) 1x A Little Crazy clone (5gal) 1x American Pale Ale (6gal) For a grand total of...

Best bet would be to dump it and start over. In my opinion that is. Grains are really cheap. At my lhbs it's like $1-1.50/Lb. But those extract cans are like $15 a piece and $6 for an ounce of hops. I wouldn't risk those costs over the costs of the grains. On the other hand wort oxidation pre...

Im in!

Hello again! So time has passed and beers have been brewed. And wonderfully iv managed to get rid of that metallic taste in my beers. I simply used half of my tap water with the other half being RO water. I figured this way I wouldn't have to play chemist. It has diluted the metallic taste...

Thank you for the information! I'm going to try using the RO water in my next batch and I will report back with results.

Not too much iron over here. Mostly calcium. My emails to the water department were not very helpful... What's the best way to go about it? Is Reverse Osmosis water the same as the stuff you can buy from the grocery stores? Is that water completely free of minerals? Do you have to (or like to)...

Hello all! First post here, but long time reader. I have brewed 9 batches of beer so far. Mostly different styles. From Vanilla Porter- to a Summer Ale. All of these beers have had a similar finishing taste, and that taste can be best described as Metallicy. A lot of people on the forums...