Recent content by banditgrrr

I'm getting ready to brew a 21st Amendment clone and I'm looking for a watermelon flavor. I'm new to home brewing but I think there's 3 days to do this: 1. Fresh watermelon, puree, boil for 5 min, add to secondary, or 2. Frozen watermelon concentrate added to secondary, or 3. 4oz Watermelon...

I have a fridge I use for fermenting that's on the opposite side of the house than my kitchen. I used to carry them back and forth from the fridge to the kitchen to rack but now I built a shelf outside the fridge and I do the transfer right there. For the Pliney, I transferred from secondary to...

I've been leaving it in the primary for about a week and then rack to secondary for 7-10 additional days. I have not tried cold crashing in the carboy yet. I think maybe I'll try adding Whirfloc or irish moss to my next batch and see if that helps any. I greatly appreciate all the feedback.

Thanks for the response. I was more worried about giving a few out to friends and having them say "what's this stuff floating around?" LOL. My Pliney came out at about 8.1%. Since I purchased this as a kit, I used the Safeale 05 that was included. I just wasn't sure if maybe I was doing...

I'm a new home brewer and I've made about 8 batches of extract with specialty grains. I just made a Pliney Elder clone which consists of tons of hops. I bottled about a week ago and when I hold the bottle up to the light, I have quite a bit of sediment floating in the bottle. I know a little is...