Recent content by dweber77

I will be doing a small tasting of my most recent home brew at one of local bottle shops. Building my new mash tun and hot liquor tank and then going to the one year anniversary of one of our local nanobreweries.

My wife helps on the bottling line. To me, that is more than enough repayment for that once a month visitor.

Nice guess, but not quite. It's a winter warmer with cherries cinnamon and vanilla. :)

Thanks all! Got home tonight and took a look and it's not growing in size at all and just has that oily sheen. Most of what appeared as white dots on the surface seem to have sunk down to the bottom. Just means I will have to do a little filtering when I rack to my bottling bucket.I...

Thanks. :) First set of really expensive ingredients and the last thing I need is an infection, hence my nervousness. I am not surprised if it was residual hops that came through the raking cane. The raking cane kept getting clogged on transfer from one of my primary fermentation...

Hey all, So I am on beer number 5 and it has been amazing and easy thus far. With this Christmas ale I got creative and added some extra items. I moved to secondary yesterday and added cinnamon sticks and a vanilla bean. This morning I noticed this oily film and small specs in it and am...