Recent content by BarrelOfBrew

Won't the boiling point be much lower at higher elevation? I heard somewhere that 212 is the boiling point at sea level.

I just got a capper attachment, but having trouble with changing the bell. the 26 is supposed to unscrew... does it? I took the cylinder out of the attachment and I can't see how to get the darn thing apart. Anyone with special knowledge of how this works, please share. You are smarter than I am.

We have a Belgian strong dark ale in primary right now... used the outer rind from 2 fresh oranges, plus coriander and cardamom. Hope we didn't use too much coriander, but it didn't seem overly flavorful or fresh. The coriander and cardamom did come from the LHBS (but not the oranges!).

Thank you! This puts my revised OG at about 1.130 . The yeast is loving it. Right now the airlock activity is 2-3 bubbles per second.

I am having some trouble finding info on how to do this, and my searches on HBT didn't turn up anything I could use. We are making a batch of semi-sweet grapefruit wine, according to the Jack Keller recipe. I posted in the thread on grapefruit, but I wanted to start a separate thread on this...

We mixed up a 3 gallon batch of the semi-sweet recipe from the Jack Keller site. We fit 18 grapefruits worth of pulp, plus some skins, and a few raisins, in a "small" nylon straining bag, no problem. We will pitch the yeast tomorrow. I have become enamored with grapefruits this week, and cannot...

Thanks for the advice. I will extract the juice and pulp without pulverizing it. Instead of using a straining bag, could I just re-rack it and strain it sometime during the first week?

I'm about to attempt a grapefruit wine with a friend, a semi-sweet or dessert (we're going to make the final call soon) from the Jack Keller site. Can anyone tell me if it is wise or foolish to throw the flesh in a blender (after removing the pith and seeds, of course)? I always thought...

Has anyone been to the Dutch Gold store? I keep meaning to go by there, but it hasn't been convenient for me so far. I don't live very far away and I have relatives in the immediate area of Dutch Gold.