Recent content by danielc409

These pictures are fricken awesome. I need to start reading up on this to do a sour in the future, I love sours.

Hate to bump a few month old thread, but from what I'm reading, sounds like there's nothing you can do with the dregs from these? I have the tart lychee and the lost abbey in my fridge right now. I was thinking about learning how to harvest dregs etc to reuse them but sounds like you can't with...

I did the Enkidu Winter Ale from AHS with the BRY-97, double pitched and oxygenated with 20 second burst w/ 2 micron stone and it was krauesening like a madman after 24hrs, good activity before that. Almost had some blow off, not using blow off tube, but had some debris in my air lock. The yeast...

Did a smash brew yesterday with the new kettles. I realize now that I should've got horizontal couplings vs vertical. My strike water didn't even reach the top coupling so I couldn't use the thermometer but for heating sparge water it was high enough. The one issue I seem to have is that when I...

Garage / Driveway .. @ home(brewer).

Hey guys, I haven't really posted too much on this forum but have been reading the wealth of information that has been posted here and I appreciate it all! Back on point, I brewed a clone about a month and a half ago, Southern Stars Bombshell Blonde. I kegged it up about a week or two ago...

Mine came in on time as well. I did notice that the welded wasn't cleaned up but that didn't bother me. The only thing was the stickers on the side of the pots that I removed and had to scrub for a bit to remove the remaining adhesive. They are a lot heavier than I expected, which would be a...

Pm'd with order number, thanks.

Sounds like we should be expecting them late this week perhaps? Anyone tracking provided?

My first batch of bottles are super carbonated, I can't pop a bottle open without it foaming all over the place. But once it settles, it's actually pretty good. I probably didn't let it finish carbonating and used too much priming sugar. I've never had a bottle explode like that though.

Another old bump, looks like I found a solution to my slow fermenting ginger hibiscus saison. It's been two weeks and has only gone from 1.050 ( + or - ) to 1.025. Sounds like I should put it in my hot Texas garage to get temps up. Temperature has been around 75 degrees in my kitchen ( it's been...

Starsan is great and very easy to use. Also get some spray bottles to keep sanitizer in so you can spot sanitize anything and everything.

I brewed a ginger hibiscus saison two weeks ago and I'm just having very slow fermentation. The gravity is dropping but at a super slow rate, OG was 1.05 + or -, it's at about 1.025 or so as of yesterday. But I didn't use a yeast starter, which I will be using from now on, just didn't have the...

Just ordered 2 10 gallons, one for HLT and other for BK. The stainless pot I have now is just a little too small for 5 gallon all grain batches, I keep getting boilovers. This should remedy it nicely. ;)

Hey folks, My name is Daniel ( obviously right? ) and I'm from Port Arthur / Groves, Texas. I've been brewing for a couple of years, started with Mr. Beer of course, then moved up to the big leagues to all grain brewing. I only have 1 recipe completed and have already been drinking from all...