Recent content by elijahjmhutchinson

Hey y'all, my name is Elijah and I'm a novice Brewer from Stevenson WA. My family has a long history of brewing so ive been helping my parents brew since I was 17. I'm now a college student and brewing is how I make friends.

I learned to make kvass with a Finnish friend of mine in college. We use rye bread most of the time and sometimes Scottish oats or fruit. Do you let yours ferment dry? We always drank it day 2 or 3 because it would go way too sour.

Thank you gentlemen for your input.

I did some more research on this (on this forum) and I'm certainly not the only one who has seen it happen. An airlock can and often does prevent some amount of co2 from escaping. This causes some level of co2 to dissolve. I fermented in primary for a little over three months and took gravity...

A few months ago, I had to leave a batch of pineapple ale in primary and go on vacation. I used a three-piece airlock and overfilled it because I was concerned about evaporation of airlock water while I was gone on vacation. I was pleasantly surprised to find my brew already carbonated and ready...