Recent content by bwaynes

so I wanted a way to control conditioning temp for my bottles without being expensive, and I haven't got my temp controller in yet, so I got this brilliant idea. its been working fine so far, just change the water out every so often. Basically by just putting hot water in the water jug every...

i actually just started one myself. nothing too fancy! homebrewboston.blogspot.com

I brewed my first every beer (wheat) a few months ago, and the taste was just weird. I've let it sit a bit longer and still a weird taste, im hoping my stout comes out much better

I figured I would update this. I am pretty sure my liquid yeast was not given enough time to get going, so I basically poured inactive yeast into my wort. After a week of no activity what so ever, I bought a pack of safale 04, re hydrated and pitched that. Active fermentaton began about 6 hours...

Hey fellow brewers, first post here. This is my second attempt at extract brewing.I brewed up a Dry Irish Stout kit from NB last week, and took for granted the warm week we had here. My wort temp when pitched was at the recommended 78 degrees. It was my first time using liquid yeast (1084 Irish...