Recent content by darthbooger

Thanks I think I may try this recipe out... Hopefully I dont mess it up, pecans are expensive...

So do you rack into a new vessel at bottling then add the sugar to the whole thing?

Do you have any experience with the carbonation tablets? If so would you recomend them over using regular sugar to each bottle?

So racking this to help it clear will not effect the actual ability to carbonate? Sorry for the noob questions guys, I do want this to turn out well, do you think by cutting the entire recipe in half it would effect this in any way?

I have been trying to enter this into beercalculus and it keeps timing out, also out of curiosity why would you need irish moss in this? Do you want a "dark" beer to clear?

The last time I used carb tablets I had a delicious looking *sarcasm* muck at the bottom from the tablets somewhat dissolving but not being eaten up, and that was just ten days of fermentation with a dark chocolate stout, like I said though I am a novice at best with this im good at meads so the...

Okay, so I entered my first beer competition today I did horrible with a chocolate stout that ended up being some sort of chocolate lite beer... Oh well got like a 25 average scorre of 50... Anyhow the winner of the dark category was a Pecan Porter, and wow, this thing was amazing, just one 2oz...

By converted to liquid extract I mean the majority grain, i posted earlier about what I did differently...

Okay so here's what I have got so far, the 9th of July I started this batch, I used 1lb of lactose and converted some to liquid extract... I had a starting gravity of about 1.059 one week later it is at 1.020, I am new to beer, and am curious whether to transfer this to a secondary or just...

As a matter of fact I did, however, just out of curiosity, what COULD happen if I had not?

I actually had a huge chunk of ice that I poured it over so it chilled pretty quick. I just prefer meadmaking because I can be lazier lol...

I am a mead maker and started a batch of beer for an upcoming contest I actually made this dark chocolate beer, though I did tweak it a bit **converted some to extract**, with guidance from my local brew store here in san antonio, would ust like your opinion, I have done it all the exact same...