Recent content by Auger

Beeeeeeeer!

Wow this was a while ago. Been pulling on this keg for a while now, but it's really come around the last few weeks. It ended up around 9%, the kveiking yeast was a beast. Not a ton of yeast character even after fermenting hot and fast, but definitely on the boozy side. It's mellowed out some...

Oooh shiny. And that floor drain is freaking sweet.

Check those numbers... There's no way the electric company is going to pay you more for the electricity than they sell it for. They pay back at wholesale rates which is generally about 1/4 of your cost. At last account true-up in March, I was paying 9 cents per kWh and the electric company...

Check out energysage.com. Companies can do a fair bit of analysis up front to get you in the ballpark for the initial cost/benefit, then you can whittle it down to whatever the top 2 or 3 are to do site visits and fine tune the proposals. That is how we started out and it worked out well, and...

Almost 8 gal at 1.061 into the kettle...right on target. I think I'm going to call it "Tropical Shipwreck". LHBS was out of citra so subbing in an oz each of cascade and motueka. Also holding the pineapple over to the secondary.

Brewing this as an all-grain batch this weekend, using Imperial Kveiking yeast. Going to find the hottest room in the house and let it rip and see what happens :rock:

It's not my local, but went there once for something I needed urgently. Really nice place. I used brew and wine hobby in East Hartford.

Looking forward to hearing your results!

Tried half a glass last night...it's ok. I would probably double the cacao nibs and cut the syrup addition at the end in half. It's also still a little undercarbed. Head retention initially looks terrible, but that may still be from the lack of carb. I have half a keg of robust porter on tap...

Nice glass...

You'd need to do a closed transfer through a filter using pressurized co2 to avoid oxidizing the whole batch...something like this: https://www.morebeer.com/products/beer-plate-filter-kit.html Fining with gelatin might work.

Finally kegged this over the weekend. Took a sample and added some Hershey's syrup to backsweeten and flavor. The base beer is decent, pretty muted character, but that may just be the lack of carbonation. Ended up adding 40oz of syrup, which was .75oz per 12oz. On gas now to carbonate, we'll...

I'm in South Windsor, not too far away

I just brewed a Belgian dubbel and set aside 3 gal to do on tart cherries. I saved your recipe from the swap a few years ago as my baseline. For the three gal, I used four cans of tart cherries in juice, which really didn't do too much. I ended up adding another 24oz of cheribundi tart cherry...