Recent content by boxerbrews

Nice bit of chocolate on the nose with hints of bready malt and a definite presence of alcohol warmth. Chocolate first and foremost at first taste. Quickly fades to the base beer malt profile and finishes with a sweet dough character coupled with the warming alcohol. I think I inderpitched...

I’ll get a photo posted later tonight. If anyone is in the KC area and wants a 22oz bomber, I could part ways with about 3-4 of them. No way in heck I can drink an entire batch all to myself. PM and we can arrange a public place to meet.

Rise from your grave old thread... Well, I brewed up my attempt at a clone of this with some help from the wonderful staff at Boulevard. The Wyeast Scottish strain is a boss and it munched its way right past my target gravity of 1.016. I had much better efficiency than I usually get and ended...

I have the Exchilerator UV and I love it! I'd be more than happy to field whatever questions people may have, at least ones specific to my experience using it. Kenny is extremely responsive to questions and is very passionate about his product. I'd recommend the Exchilerator to anyone looking...

Rebooting an old thread... I have this very thing happening to me right now with an amber ale I brewed last Saturday. It's been 9.5 days and the foamy layer is still very thick and hasn't fallen yet. To boot, there are still quite a bit of bubbles rising to the surface. I haven't "theifed" a...

10-14 days sounds perfect, at least in my experience with Browns. I'm going to give this a whirl weekend after this coming and submit it to a Topeka comp on 10/29. Should be plenty of time to ferment, bottle and condition.

Any reason for the long primary rest on the yeast cake? Seems like it would be more beneficial to rack to secondary after you get close to FG.

Thanks for all the great info and replies. It seems to me that while you CAN run a 5 gallon batch on the 20 gallon system, it's going to require some creative steps. While I don't want to be limited on production volume (without moving to a nano setup that is), it seems that I'd be better off...

Has anyone purchased the 20 gallon COFI version and ran 5 gallon batches on it? I like bigger beers which require quite a bit more grain for even 5 gallon batches, but my wife likes session IPAs which do not require anywhere near the grain bill let's say a Russian Imperial Stout does. Not...

Here she is rocking and rolling. Color looks to be slightly darker than the real deal, but I'm guessing that will change as it matures. Ignore the rather medieval looking surroundings. Haha! **sorry for the sideways picture**

Reviving an old thread. Just brewed this on Saturday. I used to live in Madtown and this was one of my favorite beers. Bottling in about a week, so I'll be sure to follow up with the end result in roughly 3 weeks from now. I think someone said to use a blowoff tube with the 3086 yeast...