Recent content by charlieboltman

I've got some left over DME dark, and 2 different types of left over liquid malt extract. . Left over ingredients?? Not sure my brother gave them to me and said something about a drunk squirrel attack lol. I quit asking was thinkin about using it up.. however I will need to figure out my Hops...

Might be more interesting to bottle half and fruit the other half, so you know next time what the effects are. ;) Great idea .. I think I will do that.. bottle 1/2 then fruit the other.. just in case. Just had an idea of adding black cherries and cocoa nibs... ehh we’ll see.. I think there’s...

im going to be brewing a Strong Dark Belgian this weekend and I was thinking about adding in a dark fruit like currants and or black cherries to the secondary.. late in the secondary that is.. I’ll be using Wyeast 3864. And I’m shooting for around 10%abv.. I dont want an over powering fruit...

The cleaning and sanitizing was my biggest worry.. my last batch that I started it with I just warmed some soapy water and ran it through the coil then rinsed.. I’ll sanitize it but I do like the idea of running the boiling wort through it before submerging it!! It is easy to me so I guess as...

I’m pretty new to brewing on my 9th brew only and I’ve only done partial mash kits and extract kits.. Anyway I had the idea and started using a different way to cool my wort and I wanted to see if anyone could tell me if this was a bad idea bc I haven’t seen it used before. I made a 20’ coil...