Recent content by dlester

Does anyone here have experience with a beer stored no less than one year that has cherries in it? My assumption is the cherry flavor will diminish substantially

No, I've been busy with son's baseball season. Will try this summer.

Here's a good way to clean your kegs: http://brewboobs.blogspot.com/2013/12/clean-beer-lines-cheap-and-easy-how.html

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Azazel1024, what was the results of the beer tasting. If brewed again what would you change, if any? dlester

+1 Great video.

Don't skip any steps of the process. McKnuckle has it right, I'll also guide you in the same direction with a good quick start lesson on brewing. These articles are from a book published by the well respected home brewer, John Palmer: http://www.howtobrew.com/section1/chapter1.html Whey you...

+1 ncbrewer on his comments and sanitation. If you brew outside or in the garage, you are at risk of contamination from bacteria dropping in your brew carried by wind. If indoors, making cheese or allowing fruit to spoil will give off spores that will contaminate wort. Clean/sterilize...

UPDATE: I used distiller's malt from Ireland. It's quite unique. I fermented it with a lot of yeast, maybe 3x normal and got the FG down to 1.004, which is pretty damn dry. It is in the freezer now. I lowered the temp to 20 F° and scooped out ice 1/2 gallon, the lowered it to 12 F°. Yesterday...

I read your water numbers and see that you've got big numbers like mine. I use water from a well that is 450 PPM, while most of Los Angeles is 50 PPM. I cured most of the issue by using three filters. The first is sized as 1, the next sized at .50. The third filter is charcoal. I run water...

OK, that's just cool! You've managed to cross over a sour beer yeast to a mead. And, make it taste great. Congrats. This is the kind of thing advanced brewers should try. There is a commercial beer for every style and liking. Unlike the 70's where brewers were trying to make good beer, which...

I built this and the wire around the tubing is overkill. I can't say it from experience, other than I left it off and the chiller works fine. The instructions are a bit difficult, but some ingenuity helps. Overall, it works great, but copper along with all the parts are very expensive. Mine...

From what I've read, wort has been boiled since the beginning of time. You can find boiling as part of the process in the books written in the 1800's available on Google Books. Even clay tablets dated 6,000 years before Christ, found from the people of Sumr (Northern Iraq) have recorded making...

Count me in. Nice Hardware.

Push, any thoughts on this BSG Distilling yeast?