Recent content by drewbeta

I actually just found canned pumpkin at the Jewel in Palos Heights yesterday... I'm thinking about stocking up for next year as well, because the shelf life is like 2 years. Are you using pumpkin pie mix? I saw that a couple weeks ago, but it had a bunch of extra ingredients in there (I think...

being from the Chicago area, I used some Goose Island bottles for my home brew. DON'T DO IT! I've had 5 bottles break on me already. 1 broke while bottling, and other 4 while uncapping. The one that broke yesterday must not have capped right as well because the beer was completely flat. Just a...

I don't mean to target you specifically because there are quite a few that are guilty of this. I'm actually a web designer by day (brewer by night), and the biggest no-nos in design are using papyrus and comic sans font. There are a ton of really beautiful free fonts out there, try looking...

where did you get canned pumpkin this early? online? I've been looking at all of my local grocery stores, and haven't seen it yet.

I don't know for sure, but that seems like too much. I've been researching pumpkin ales, and most call for a 10 lb fresh pumpkin (less after you gut it), or around 2 - 4 lbs. of canned pumpkin. I could be wrong because they might be trying to offset the rich flavor of a porter. I made a pumpkin...

It's not badly priced either. I think if it turns out good, this might become my house brew. I'm about a month off of brewing it, so we'll have to wait and see.

Here's my modified recipe: .5 lb Biscuit .5 lb Caramel Wheat .25 lb Oats 2 lb Two-Row 3 lb Amber DME 2 lb Light DME 2 oz Cluster 60 min. 1 oz Willamette 5 min. Wyeast 1056 Can you think of another hop that would work well for flavor? A yeast that would work well? I'm partial to Cascade, but I...

So I could do something like this?

Just so I'm straight, that would make this a partial mash recipe rather than an extract then? Still learning...

add two row to the grain and mash instead of steep? I've only steeped grain up to this point in my brewing career, so sorry for my ignorance.

This is my first attempt at a recipe, and would love some feedback. .5 lb Caramel Wheat .5 lb Biscuit .25 lb Oats 4 lb Amber DME 3 lb Light DME 2 oz Cluster 60 min. 1 oz Willamette 5 min. Wyeast 1056 43 IBU TIA. I discovered a local home brew store, and would like to...

I have been using the dishwasher to clean my bottles after I finish a round. This has worked great for me so far, but I've been using one step to sanitize before bottling. I read the idea for sanitizing with the dishwasher in the Midwest Supplies kit instructions, and decided to investigate...