Recent content by DrDan

I recently went to a bar I'd never been to and proceeded to ask the bartender, "What is the hoppiest beer you have?" Her reply? Miller lite. After ignoring her reply and looking at all of the beer taps, I saw that that had a 78 IBU IPA. So much for having to learn about your products.. I'm...

From another medical perspective, without getting too much into the science of it, alcohol inhibits your body's ability to produce glucose (which is necessary if you haven't eaten in a while). The lack of energy for your brain is what causes many of the mental effects of being hungover. One of...

Wow lots of engineers. I'm a medical student, and there's quite a few in my class who brew as well.

Your kitchen is always spotless and the rest of the house is filthy.

Tell your wife that you're drinking so much to protect her. It's a tough job but somebody's gotta do it!

Worse beer ever. I don't know if it was the purple on the label that tricked my mind, but I swear this stuff had a nasty grape aftertaste.

I just brewed a batch and had trouble keeping the temp down. I filled up my bathtub with water, threw a t-shirt over my fermenter, and had a fan blowing on it. I froze some bottles of water and threw them in there as well, and now my inside-fermenter temp is reading 66 with an ambient temp of...

I repitched and now have airlock activity (thank God!). The beer is coming up on 3 weeks in primary, but probably 2 of those weeks had a stuck gravity. Now that I'm getting fermentation again, how long should I leave it? I was planning on bottling it this weekend but now I'm not so sure.

Thanks for the advice, I'll give a repitch a shot and see what happens.

I brewed a Midwest Irish Stout extract kit a couple of weeks ago, and had an OG of 1.052. I had strong airlock activity for about 16 hours, then not a bubble since. A week later the gravity was 1.024 (shooting for 1.015), and hasn't gone down at all over the last week. Should I repitch? I...