Recent content by Brewsephus

It makes you wonder who their marketing team consists of? "hey bro, got a real problem with regular cans bro." "whys that bro?" "broseph, it's too hard to shotgun, man." .... And thus, the punch top can is born. If I ever see anyone opening the punch top for another guy in public they are...

This, a million times this!

That is very amusing!

But then I wouldn't have a vessel to contain all the krausen that was spewing everywhere. The wife would be pissed. Is it enough to change the sanitizer daily until the aggressive fermentation stops?

I have a very full primary and it's aggressively fermenting away! Im very excited, but I am concerned about the blow off in the sanitizer container. There is a lot of krausen fluid mixing into the sanitizer. It's turned a light tan color, and I am worried about the viability of it's sanitizing...

We're you by chance at the Home-brew Emporium in Weymouth ma? Stopped in today and while I was picking up my grain the guy was telling me about this guy who had a stuck mash during the free ingredient event.

Here's an update on the unbalanced IPA situation: I went to the store and bought two different porters and two different, heavily hopped, IPAs and tried mixing them. I didn't care for any of the results, the porters were too malty and it was just too much of two extremes. What I did think of...

I WISH I had a tasting lair! Someday. Right now I call it the kitchen. I agree with your last point. I'm disappointed it didn't come out perfect, but I've also learned a lot since then. ::cheers::

Thanks for the advice. That was what I suspected, but just wanted a second opinion. Gentle boils it is! ::cheers::

I am done with the primary fermentation. It is just sitting in the primary right now, doing nothing. It has been in there since 2/28/2012. It stopped fermenting 3 days ago, 3/12/2012. After doing some searching, I found that some people mix porters with IPA. I think I'm going to stop by the...

That is a very interesting take. During the boil, we were doing a 2.5 gallon boil, we had an issue with the size of the brew kettle and had to turn down the heat; from a vigorous boil, to a less intense boil. It was still 210F and was definitely boiling, but was more gentle then violent...

Honestly, I was just looking for a big IPA recipe and that was one that I found that looked good. I have never had a beer from Dick's Brewing Co. The real question is, what do I brew to blend back, and can I get by not doing 5 gallons. The only reason is, if the fix doesn't work I don't want...

It is in the primary, but is fully fermented out. It was 1.050 OG and is now fermented out at 1.006. It was brewed on 2/28/12 and I sampled it at the end of fermentation today, 3/14/12. Any ideas as to what I could brew to mix it with? It must be an ale, because I dont have the equipment to...

I have put in a request to merge the two posts. My apologies.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a problem. I don't know what type of malaise I had when I made this error, but the fruit of my labor is undrinkable. I mean, it's really bad. Here's the back story. I've only been brewing for a little while, first batch was ok. (Didn't care for the style, was a...