Recent content by Dude71

thanks guys. I'm not terribly worried about it. It tastes fine. It just seems weird to me that the one batch is completely fine and this one has the weird filmy stuff. exact same recipe and exact same procedure for both. The other thing is that its in EVERY single bottle. i did open one...

so i brewed 2 seperate 5 gallon batches of a DFH 60min IPA clone. they were brewed about 2 days apart, sat in primary and secondary for around 3 weeks total, and were both bottled on the same day. this was about a week ago. I popped a bottle from 1 batch open today and poured it. it was...

I'm confused, maybe I'm just a noob, but how did the grommet fall into the bucket if you had the lid on? The hole that mine goes into isn't big enough for it to fall through.

so I'm trying to put the recipes I've done so far up on my profile. More as a place to keep them that I'm not going to accidentally throw away than anything else. I'm having trouble getting the line break to happen though. I've got it organized like I want in the edit area but then it just...

he said he cold brewed it for a couple days in 3 gallons of water, so he basically added coffee to the wort.

yeah, we'll see if I can keep ponying up the 40-50 bucks a week to keep going like that.

Being a noob in the beer world, I feel I can offer up some good info about the caffeine we're talking about here. An average 8 ounce cup of coffee has 105-145mg of caffeine. in a 34.5 oz can of coffee there are 4.6 gallons of coffee. Because there were 5 gallons of beer, there wasn't quite a...

So I'm just learning and experimenting. I feel like I've been developing some good habits too. I don't rely on my bubble as a sign of fermentation for instance :rockin:. I brewed my third batch last night and I was basically going for a super hoppy, complex IPA with a largish alcohol...

Hello All, I'm a Computer Science student in Raleigh NC. Just started brewing 2 weeks ago and I'm learning fast, brewed my 3rd batch last night. Don't want to finish drinking my first batch before I have another one coming out :) Rob