Recent content by Beerknapper

I recently brewed with mint, nothing dark, I was just experimenting. I searched for as much information as I could about brewing with mint and found almost nothing. I put the mint in the secondary with a simple syrup because my previous attempts of "dry minting" didn't give me great results...

I'm living in VA and I have 2 batches fermenting a 5 gallon and a 3.5 gallon. Unfortunately with the storm knocking out the power and estimated power restoration being Thursday I'm concerned about my yeast in the 85-90 degree temperature in my house. My 5 gallon batch has been in the primary...

It's my first buy so I'm not sure where there is. Is it posted in a previous post? I was looking but I couldn't find it.

I sent the payment through paypal today and I'd like to pick up tomorrow morning before I go to work. I've got 2 different kinds for samples for you. I'd like to be there around 11ish let me know where I'm going and I'll see you tomorrow. Thanks.

I'm planning on coming up Monday, I'll send the payment on Paypal over the weekend. Can you pm me the address that I'll be picking it up?

What days & times are good for pickup?

This is my first time using the grain buy, do you send us a message on what we owe?

If there is still room I'll take a cm-pale.

So I just found the group buy section and realized I just missed this round. How often does this group buy?

Both my assistant brewer and my first name is Scott. So we came up with a name that is a play on words and also something literal: Hopping Scotts. I am working on a logo and just wanted some input. I'm picturing putting this logo over a pavement or blacktop background. But I already had one...

I'll agree with that, some mistakes turn out to be great inventions/innovations. I also have had a couple "disastrous" brews (although they sound insignificant compared to Yooper's) that turned out great.

We moved here 2 years ago and I've brewed a couple batches here. I am not a fan of the tap water here in general even for drinking, so I haven't brewed without filtering it or buying gallons of water.

Thanks for the tips.

While I was looking through the malts chart on this site I noticed that some malts such as CaraFoam, CaraPils, Dextrine Malt and Malted Oats don't require a mash. Why is that? And what would happen if you did put the malts in during the mash? And when else would you add it during the brewing...

I've been extract brewing for a couple years now but only from kits. I've thoroughly enjoyed brewing this way but after talking to my brewing buddies it seemed like all-grain was the way to go. I've been the assistant brewer for an all-grain batch before but this will be my first attempt as...