Recent content by drengel1

i did a pomengranate cream ale with the girls that worked in the tasting room as an educational thing. we kept it real simple and just used a american cream ale kit and added pure pomengranate juice. completely pink and was actually really good. since someone mentioned peeps in a beer i...

what is 'raw' white wheat? do you mean untorrified?

alpha acids have no effect on dry hopping. Yes it is all aroma and nothing else, no flavor or bitterness gets extracted unless they are boiled. id use whatever you used for your last minute boil additions, which it sounds like is amarillos and cascades.

i used the refigeration tubing. dont remember the exact length that i coiled as it was quite a while ago but i think i bought around 35 ft. (5 gallon batch). i just used hose clamps to fit a garden hose fitting on it and then added a length of hose to drain into my lawn. knocks it out in about...

i wouldnt use the roasted barley at all, and would drop the chocolate down to a maximum of four ounces. definitely would add caramel malt otherwise its gonna wind up a flat, dull, ugly brown color. you want ruby highlights in there and the sweetness from the caramel malt. would maybe add some...

That is awesome.

have never had ANY luck with this strain including 7 or 8 homebrewed wits and one 20 bbl commercial batch. in fact all of white labs belgian strains are pretty terrible...in fact i think all thier yeast in general is pretty bad, all of them seem to under attenuate and start slow unless you make...

for quality of beer i'd go with either an o2 stone and tank or temperature control for fermentation. a mill really wont influence your quality to a huge degree provided your not using ages old malt. temperature control isnt expensive either. i bought a frig for $50 from habitat for humanity and...

cool project. i've got something similar going thats been sitting for close to 8 months. havent tried it in a while but am thinking of racking it off and possibly blending soon. how long do you plan on letting yours get all funked and soured up for?

Hey all, After a four year absence I'm back! used to be a member under the name drengel, not sure if anyone is still on here from then but hi again. Long story short I stopped posting after I got a job as a packaging assistant at a local brewery, and over the last four years worked my way up...