Recent content by cshearer

Did you take a gravity reading after sparging? I always keep some DME on hand, so if my gravity after sparging is low for some reason then I can add some DME to the boil to compensate. It will add about 9 gravity units per pound for a five gallon batch, IIRC. When you take your initial...

I did a Russian imperial stout with bourbon-soaked oak chips that sat in the secondary for well over a year and it was awesome. I didn't intend for it to sit that long, but like you, life got in the way. I found a bottle of the stout in the back of my garage a few weeks ago and it was still...

I recently brewed this, screwed it up, and it still is awesome. I forgot to put the corn in the mash and didn't realize it until I was done sparging. I didn't do a mash out, so I decided to add the corn to the kettle in a hop sack and bring the temp back up to 150 for an hour, hoping there...

This is great, thanks for sharing!