Recent content by Buddhabuddha

I am sure it will get ya drunk, and it probably won't taste bad. Enjoy.

If the color you want is very very light.... then I would suggest going for a "lite" style beer, usine Rice Syrup Solids instead of Malt Extract.... I made a batch for my wife, I prefer the dark stuff but, she likes the light stuff. When they make malt extract, the cooking down of the...

Good Luck!! CHEERS!

I just use a Sharpie on blank Caps.... I was in search of a place to order custom caps... but noone has them in small batches...

I boil 3 gallons put one "iceeee" cold gallon at the bottom of the fermentor, then put the whole kettle in a cold water bath until it drops to about 80-100 degrees...(preferably 80) Then I top it off with another gallon of cold water.. It doesn't usually take tooo long to cool the wort.

Yeah, the brewing bug gets ya quick... Lets see, I started my first batch in February... and now I have done 6 batches..... beer beer everywhere... ha, I am going to buy a small fridge just for beer this week... I love making my own alcohol...

Well, either that or,,, after drinking 5 pints you are just not tasting quite as clearly as you were.... :p

I tend to spend ALOT of time on the recipes i make for me.... (and I fly through the ones for others) The American Lite, and Cider I made recently for the "ladies" for example.. I flew through those.. :) As for my others.. A little TLC goes a long way!

That milk crate Idea is great..... Just as a follow up... late last week I moved the Brown Ale from Primary to secondary. I used a sanitized wire hanger to "retrieve" the cork. No problems. Then dumped my Honey Brown Ale on the Yeast Cake.... Fermented pretty good for about 3 days...

let me know if this works... I was going to bottle in the red stripe bottles.. glad you peeps warned me, now I will test my capper first.

well so far the activity has stopped, I get like 1 bubble every 5+ minutes... ONce I have some time, and some bottles ??? I guess it is time to prime... The fermentation in primary only lasted (vigorously) for about 4 days, and died off pretty quick.... the OG was 1.050 and the SG when...

so far the wire hanger is the best (simplest) idea.... I will give it a try. Yeah, i was sittin there thinking.... bummer, it's in the wort...... Oh well, I am sure the stuff will still get me drunk. But I was happy i had an extra cork laying around. ha thanks all

So, I brew a Brown ale... a Newcastle Clone. I do everything like usual... alll is going well. I pitch the yeast, and put one of my corks on the primary so I can shake the hell out of it... So far... so good. I go to put the airlock in (you know where this is going) I think eh, why not...

Congrats! I just tried my first bottle of Pale ale last night (Sierra Nev Clone) it has been in bottles for a week, and it was delicious... (it was my second batch) WoOOOO HOOOOO for NOOOOOBS!

I had heard that ale yeast can be sluggish in cider, that's why I used the yeast nutrient... I am hoping that would speed it up a little? am I wrong in that assumption? Anywho, all good ideas, thanks a bunch.