Recent content by bikingman82

decent neighbor hoods are Toluca Lake, Glendale, Pasadena... bad neighbor hoods are Van Nuys, Watts, Compton. Azusa is really close to Pasadena. In Eaglerock there is a great LHBS.

To the original poster... I live in Los Angeles and what I have been doing is I use cooler and 3 bags of ice. I then put 4 gallons of water in the cooler. I then pump the water to a plate chiller and then back into the cooler. With this I can take 5 gallons of wort from 200 degrees down to 58...

I use Grogtag often. The labels are high quality looking and work well when they are tossed into a cooler full of ice water. But the only downside to them is that they are super expensive.

So I have been wanting to do this recipe for awhile and I finally got around to it. I used 8 peppers. I roasted them on the grill then soaked them in vodka. I used 4 in the boil and 4 in the secondary with some of the vodka to give it extra heat. I just moved this to tertiary last night, so...

I have brewed a kit that sat for a year and it came out fine... just had to change out the yeast.

I was going to leave it on the berries for 2 weeks. But then I re-read this post and saw that it was only supposed to be on the berries for seven days. So I racked off the berries after seven days and onto gelatin in the tertiary for some clarity. Can't wait for this beer. My company is...

Gonna bottle in a couple days... here is where we are so far... :)

I'm going to be bottling this beer on Friday. I can't wait. Mine turned out a little darker than probably what was intended because I went off the page a little bit and used Organic Malt Extract. But it still had a reddish hue to it and seemed ok going into tertiary (still smelled and tasted...

No I work on the TV show Metalocalypse and we are all about doritos there.

well I want to do this for several reasons. first off it is a fun experiment. Secondly where I work, Doritos are a huge deal and I can tell you that everyone at work is excited to see if this experiment works. Thirdly it is just straight out fun. Oh and yes I drink beer often and brew beer...

yeah I think I like the suggestion of making a consume to get the flavor out of it and I decided to switch to cool ranch flavor. Should be interesting. I will keep you all posted.

hmmm... good thoughts. I would think that the Consomme would be watered down or would that still have a strong flavor?

gonna start with Nacho Cheese

Hey everyone, I have been thinking about trying to make this for a while and wonder what everyone thinks about the idea of it? I was thinking that I would do an american light ale as my base and then dry hop crushed doritos in the secondary for flavor. Is this a bad idea?

I have the MWS cream ale in my primary right now. It turned out a little darker than I was expecting it to. According to their catalog it is supposed to be lighter than their Honey Ale but that is just straight out wrong.