Recent content by DavidG13

I had a Kasteel Tripel once in 2010 that had a bottle date of 2008, so roughly 2 years in the bottle. I have had that beer since then but it has never been as good as those bottles with the age on them. I keep trying to find more of it to store away but they dont sell it anywhere near where I...

Well I still need to get a pic to post on here of how my beer looks. I ended up getting some decent clarity but the color ended up about where others have. I think park of what happened to mine is that when I went to bottle it I realized I missed a packet of dry hops to add. So I tossed that...

I have a batch of Jaspers St. Krausied's Triple in my primary right now. It fermented really vigorously for the first three days but has slowed down since. It will be at 3 weeks in the primary on 11/1. My plan is to rack it to a seconday for a few weeks after that. Most recomendations are to...

I still have one more week before I open my first bottle. The last taste I had the day it was bottled was promising. I will post a pic of it when I open one. The hop character was not as strong as I was expecting it to be. Which is good IMO. With the beer uncarbed it had a nice citrus/pine...

I took a sample after only a week in the secondary. I would say things are looking pretty damned good! The taste is still great. Just needs to be bottle conditioned and it will be good to go. I may end up bottling this later today!

My FG settled in at 1.016. I added the dry hops directly into the primary. I let them sit in there for 7 days total. When I checked at day 5 there was still too much CO2 degassing and making the beer very cloudy. 7/22/14 - I racked my Pliny clone into a carboy to let it clear up some more...

Update - I took a gravity reading today. It has been in the primary for 12 days now. Fermentation was active within about 12 hours after I pitched the yeast. The activity in my airlock started to slow down a few days ago. Current reading is at 1.018 with some activity still visible. It is...

Here is my Pliny the elder mid boil. Even across two burners my stove was barely keeping it going. But it was enough thankfully. I cant use the bigger burner on this stove because it is set right up against the wall :confused: Yes, I did preboil the pot to get it seasoned for brewing. It...

I read up about using two packs after I had placed my order. Next time I will be using two for a high OG beer. I should get away with one though, I just get to worry a bit in the meantime. LOL I will post my results in this thread.

^^ Yes, I agree. I decided that going too extreme was not a good idea. ie: adding all of the malt extract after flameout. Basically then all I am doing is brewing a hop tea into 6 gallons of water, and well that is just not what beer is! First, let me say - Hop spider for the win! That...

Gotcha - I misread it a little in your other post Yes, in that case I would expect the 1 gallon batch to be the one with the most flavor/aroma.

^^ Yes, I didn't quite copy all of it. ^^ But I was taking that into account with my reply. The "experiment" being that 10oz of hops are added into three different volmes of water, boiled for the same amout of time and then the volume of each being brought back up to a full 5 gallons. So if...

I want to say No to this. Because of the difference between using hops during the boil to extract the alpha acids and late hop additions to add flavor. The essential oils that make up that part of the hop character are easily boiled off. So in each of those three examples you would reach...

My plan is to get as close to a full boil as possible. Since I am having to buy a pot I might as well get what will work the best. I am either going to get something off Amazon or try and get a Turkey fryer. The latter is hard to find at the moment since its the middle of the summer. I have...

^^ Yes ^^ That was great!