Recent content by brewbud

Heh. I recently used this strain, it took nearly 3 days for my starter to wake up! Better get accustomed to twiddling your thumbs and RDWHAHB-ing.

Well, since you've already got the cooler I'd suggest building the mash tun. The parts necessary to finish it shouldn't be more than $25 and you can save the rest for your ferm chamber.

I recently used washed yeast for the first time and like joeybeer I made a small starter and then stepped it up to 1 liter, cold crashed the starter for 24 hours and then decanted most of the top liquid before adding the rest to the fermenter. 6 hours later primary was bubbling like mad.

Fermenting in a carboy is pretty common around here. Most prefer to use a blow off tube instead of an airlock just in case the fermentation gets a little wild. A blow off tube is just a length of tubing that fits tightly in the neck of the carboy with the other end hanging down into a small...

That is actually a really smart invention, at least for major venues like that.

Nice! Your first AG and you've already got a keg for a boil kettle. Jealous.

What about this for a poster?

That looks like an explosion waiting to happen. Gonna get messy.

I use twist-offs because I can get them for free and I have found (in my rather limited time as a homebrewer - 5 batches) that they seem to be fine. Granted, I am in Canada and from everything I've read our bottles are thicker than those found in the USA. I do use a bench capper, which in my...

I did something similar. I brewed all of 1 extract kit. Then a week later decided to just dive in and go for AG. That was about 3 months ago. Now I've got 2 AG batches bottled and 2 in various stages of fermentation. I have read pretty much everything I can google about the process twice and...

Nope, not really. It's more bitter than those, but perhaps it just needs to age and mellow out a bit more. Time takes care of everything, right?

Hey! I actually made this very same kit about 6 weeks ago. I would agree that it is quite a bit darker than what I was expecting it to be, but it still tastes quite good. BTW, yours is looking pretty much how mine looked at those different stages.

That is so, so, so clever. I dig. :mug:

Hello from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. :) I'm a total noob to home brewing but figured since I love beer (more than bears love honey), it would be a good hobby for the winter that is quickly approaching! I actually dove right in and brewed and all grain amber ale this weekend and surprisingly...