Recent content by AntDoctor

What do you have it attached to up in your cabinet? I have a very similar stovetop set up, and I always take it off the stove to drain (very annoying). This configuration looks like something I'd want to try and replicate!

Lol, gotta cover my bases! But yes 😁

I am getting married in three weeks, and I just now decided I want to serve a homebrewed beer at the reception. We already will have a keg of my sparkling hydromel (session mead), bottles of my blueberry wine at the tables, and a cooler of miscellaneous commercial beers. However, I have two more...

What ever happened? How did it taste?

Fascinating! Science can generate extra interest by overturning common misconceptions. However, it's rarer to then see a response to those novel claims that says, "Hey, actually it's still not really viable, even though we should it's possible." That link has some very interesting information!

According to the research, there's no negative impact on yield or growth or anything else. I also don't think it's just a novelty: there are outdoor hop farms in Brazil that are using giant floodlights at night to keep hops growing even though they normally wouldn't be able to, based on the...

I'm attempting to grow some wild-collected neo-Mexicanus hops on Phoenix this year, and I'm not super optimistic about what will happen in the heat. However, I want to publicly note that hops DO NOT need cold temperatures or dormancy periods. Seasonality is literally just based on the...

Yup, I did this recently, and I have a bunch of sprouting wild rhizome bits now!

Huh! Yeah, I have not been impressed by the Athletic cans that I've purchased either... Between steps 3 and 4, do you wait until it's carbonated? In other words, what's the purpose of step 3?

Yeah, how do you deal with this in low ABV beers? Whenever I make hop water, it often ends up being way more sharply bitter than I would expect. Like, I somehow get less aroma and more bitterness, even though it's never heated up above 170 at any point in the process!

Is it weird that I have a similar, irrational desire to be able to make beer in the apocalypse? I want to know that I could sustainably brew in super-primitive scenarios where all the supply chains have totally failed, but I doubt that will ever actually happen. It's why I have an instinctive...

Yeah, this seems plausible, but also a ****-ton of work. I think using some sort of laminar flow hood (even if it's DIY) would be a good enough middle ground. Essentially you just need a box with a fan blowing through a HEPA filter on one side and an open side opposite from it.

Yeah, I made a gallon batch using the kveik that I had dried in 2020 (I didn't refrigerate it). I was away in temporary housing for the summer, and I was planning on using the yeast cake from this gallon for future home-away-from-home brews (essentially a 1 gallon starter that I could drink)...

@Cool_Hand_Luke, any chance I can get some too? I'll PM you as well!

I'm bottling my first batch for Xmas: it's the first brew I've made and designed vinyl labels for! Sorry for the bad photo quality, but they all have one metallic gold tooth. My picnic tap broke after the first tiny pour from the keg, but it seems good! Vaguely wish I added more hops, but...