Recent content by AndrewPostula

With the holidays coming up I was thinking about my first crack at a fruit beer using blueberries added to a wheat based recipe. I was wondering if anyone has used a tincture to get their blueberry flavor or how well they have been able to incorporate a blueberry flavor in thier whet beer and...

Thanks for all the replies. I ended up just brewing my dunkelwiess and through it in another fermentor. Unfortunately on brew day I broke my hydrometer :-(.. so no gravity reading from my red. Ordered a new one, excited to see where it's at. My wheat beer has taken off with a great start to...

Just bought an extract kit to do my first brew, was an Irish red from northern brewer that I put in a plastic bucket for "primary" fermentation. Instructions from the kit and videos online say to rack to "secondary" (glass carboy) after 2 weeks, which is tomorrow but I have an inch thick layer...

Have a quick question about Kruasen. Do I need to wait for it to settle before racking to secondary or do I just draw from right below it?

Hey, I'm a new brewer getting ready to do my first beer. Planning on an American amber extract kit and had a question about hop utilization. The kit recipe and instructions are designed for a partial wort boil but I plan brewing all grain in the future and bought a 10 gal brew kettle. For this...