Recent content by balvey

That recipe looks much better, thanks.

I've heard of a winter warmer festival, likely same one, the one my friend went to was indoors. is it any good? was considering going to it.

I brewed a 2 gallon batch of this and was sorely disappointed in it. The beer was fine but the spice mixture ruined it. Scaled it down to correct ratio, just wasn't good at all.

Didn't french broad get bought out by either hi-wire or burial beer? Anybody hear anything on the Burly Beers & Barleywines festival for 2017? Should be around March, but can't find anything on it.

could someone post the page that has the actual recipe on it from this thread?

I didn't necessarily follow any particular recipe, just a bunch of marris otter, white wheat, vienna, c10, malto dextrin, and a boat load of citra & mosiac at 10 min, 5 min, 1 min, & then in a whirlpool. Giving off some unreal aromas already, can't wait to get this one dry hopped and kegged.

The starter was actively fermenting when I pitched it. I don't think I'm going to have any issues with it, was just thinking of solutions "just in case" as I didn't want to introduce a different strain of yeast and that starter is/was all i have of the heady yeast. I brewed on Monday...

I wanted to attempt a NE style ipa and decided to attempt to harvest yeast from a heady topper. I created a 1000ml 1.040 wort that I poured the dregs from a can of heady into. I let that grow for a week, cold crashed it, poured off the liquid and added another 1000ml 1.040 wort. I let that grow...

i've not seen any comments on the flavor profile of this beer. Who's brewed it and how did it turn out? Is it spicy at all or just a chili taste? Chili powder doesn't seem spicy at all to me, but others could think otherwise. I'm brewing a two gallon version of this today and am considering...

Unfortunately I've got to post this complaint. I'll start by saying I live within 200 miles of Rebel and started using them right after they opened. I loved using them because of quick shipping, great customer service, good prices, great selection, and I could order odd strains of liquid yeast...

Thanks! There are a few micros here in Knoxville, one or two stand out that I may be able to persuade. There's only one LHBS, they charge the equivalent to buy and ship online for their sacks of grain. The local home brew club does grain buys about 3 times a year, I'll probably be...

*disappointment* wish this thread hadn't died.... looking for best source for bulk grains, seems like midwest and all those that claim flat rate shipping don't include sacks of grain on that.

I think it was an episode of Dirty Jobs that featured a commercial hop farm and their process looked to be stripping the vines of all the cones and leaves, then running them up an inclined conveyor made of something similar to screen with air blowing across it so that the leaves stuck to the...

I'm having issues with mine. I left it run all night the other night and checked the temp the next morning to see it only got down to 60F. My dad ( quite the handy man at a lot of things ) seems to think it needs a fan to circulate the cold air. I don't necessarily think so. My thought is...

How long did it initially take to cool the chamber down? I'm nearly finished with my build. I turned the fridge on last night for 2 hours and it only got down to 60 in the serving side. I didn't turn on the fan to suck cold air into the ferm side yet. I'm worried that it's not going to get cold...