Recent content by BStewie

I have been busy the past couple of months and have not been able to brew, now my Kegs are pretty much empty. Since I have an empty kegerator for the first time, I was thinking of brewing a beer that can be fermented around 40 degrees. I do not want to go out and buy one of those $100 temp...

Sorry for the bump on an older thread. I was planning on brewing this here in a week or two to get a head start on the fall and I had some questions regarding the technique used to brew this. 1. The can pumpkin, after it is caramelized, do you stuff it into a grain bag and just throw it in...

So I was about to keg an Imperial IPA that I made 2 weeks ago. I took an gravity reading and it stabilized around 1.019 for the past week. I figured it was done, but when I moved the carboy to the kitchen it started to get some activity. I know I might have mixed a little together just in the...

I dont have room in my fridge to cold crash... What if I use a cooler and fill with ice water for about 24 to 36 hours?

I am planning on kegging an Imperial IPA (that tastes bad ass) this weekend. I dry hopped with no socks, bags or anything. I just dumped 1.5 or close to 1.75 oz of pellet hops into my primary. What would be the best method based on experience to siphon the beer into my keg with the least amount...

I brewed a Bend Hop-Head Imperial IPA clone last weekend and had an OG of 1.068 and pitched 2 packets of Wyeast 1968. On Wednesday, I took a reading and it was 1.020 at 73 degrees, then today I took another reading and it was at 1.020 at 67.5 degrees. I dry hopped 1.5 oz of cascade hopes as...

As I was finishing my brewing process, I garbed my thief to grab a sample for the gravity reading. I stuck the thief straight into the wort with out sanitizing it. After one thief from the wort, I realized what I did. I really hope i didn't doom the beer before it even gets going.

Steeped at 153 for 35 minutes in 2.5 gallons. Sparged with .5 gallons of water at 170 degrees. Ive calculated at 1.078 on a tastybrew.com. Unless I entered it in wrong, but I got 1.078.

This isn't a kit that I am brewing. After adding in the top off water, I aerated for about 5 minutes to mix as much of it together.

I would like to state that even though my calculated OG is 1.075, my first OG was at 1.085. I noticed that I was about .85 gallons shy of 5 gallons, so I toped off my fermentator to the 5 gallon mark and took another final OG reading. It turned out to be 1.068... a whole 8 points short of my...

I brewed a Hop-Head Imperial IPA clone (Bend Brewing Co.). Here are my ingredients: 9.5lbs Light LME 1.5lbs 2-row pale malt .5 lb crystal malt 1.oz Saaz hops (first wort hops) 2 oz Chinook Hops (90 min) 2 oz Northern Brewer Hops (5 min) 2 oz Cascade Hops (5 min after knockout) 2 Wyeast 1968...

What thermometer do you use? This is what I need, a new one for, pre boil, post boil and pre pitch.

So I just did a batch and my thermometer broke. I had a floating mercury thermometer but its time to get a better one. Anyone have any suggestions for a digital thermometer for when I'am boiling wort, etc... I have $200 in amazon giftcards so that is what I am going to use.

I just got done brewing a pumpkin ale a few hours ago and I would like some critics on style if possible. I followed this brewing recipe. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f76/maple-pumpkin-ale-24249/ I steeped grains instead of mashing since I do not mash at my current set up. I steeped...

When I took a sample for the FG reading, it was like it was a fresh cracked beer, thats how carbonated I am talking here. Anyways, I just legged it, purged the o2 and its now sitting at 30 psi for the next 24 hours.