Recent content by Badaboom

I want to stick with a bunch of ingredients that I have on hand so I can modify an existing recipe to suit my inventory. I have a bunch of 2-row pale and about 1 lb of chocolate & black patent malt. Hops wise I grow my own centennial, fuggles, cascade and hautauller. I will probably need...

I was trying my own version of this recipe with ingregients readily available to me. For hops I used Perle and replaced the pils malt with canadian 2 row but used the same of everything else. The yeast worked for a couple of days (I used a starter) and then it just stopped. I took a reading...

Not sure if OP still follows this thread but figured I'd ask some questions anyways. I have never made wine before and figured I'd give this a try. I picked 29 lbs of crap apples from a friends and just pulled the stems out, gave them a wash and threw them in the freezer. I need to track down...

I'm ready to move into all grain brewing (I think) and am just starting to collect up some equipment. I mistakenly bought a 70 qt cooler (rectangular) when I thought I was getting a 50 quart (not paying attention). I was looking to do just 5 gallon batches in the 50 quart cooler and have...

TY for the advice. I'm trying to play around but just don't want to screw up a batch.

So put in my normal half oz at end of boil then after the primary, pitch my last ounce in secondary. Got it.

I'm making a new batch right now. Basically just a light pale ale with two cans of extract. Last time I made it with 1 oz of amarillo hops (1 hr boil), 3/4 oz of Strisselsplat (10 mins boil) and 1/2 of Sterling at the end of boil (Whitey's Gone Fishin Recipe from The Joy of Homebrewing)...

I bought two batches worth of ingredients from the recipe in The Joy of Homebrewing called Whitey's Gone Fishing Pale Ale. For batch one, just going to do it by the book. Batch two I was thinking of using a chili pepper in it. Is that advisable for an ale? How many peppers should I use for...

Here in Saskatchewan, alcohol has a bunch of taxes built in. A 24 pack of cans is about $47-48. I can buy a full batch worth of beer for around $60 online (includes $20 shipping). This saves me about 1/2 since I get twice the volume.

I assume you already have a siphon. Cut it in half and push it in the hole of the rubber stopper and lead the other end to a bowl or bottle of water.

Good luck. If things don't work out...you will always have beer.

Good stuff. My wife is awesome as well. She is also pregnant and I was travelling on business when my third batch blew up in the primary. No activity when I left and she called me saying the top blew and their was beer on all of the walls and roof. Lost about one gallon. Anyways, she...

What is an extract twang? I'm still very new to homebrewing.

Post the pictures.

I don't know about the porter, but this brewery near me once a year makes this Blackberry Mead and it is the best thing that I have ever tasted.