Recent content by Geronimo13

i'm in

just finished the article and it sounds like this could be a good beer to use a firkin or barrel to secondary it in and then serve right from that. z-bob, when you say it started growing on you... how so? did it mellow over time?

Here is that BYO article. I love california commons so i'll definitely try making this one in the next few weeks. https://byo.com/mead/item/530-dampfbier-style-profile

Interested to see the solutions to this, i've had similar problems. I tried saving wee heavy yeast and never really noticed any separation but I used very little hops so I wonder if thats whats going on here?

thats a nice looking kettle, i'm in!

I'd agree with Augie, the electric setup can be nice but I think I'd spend the money first on fermentation control - I used a freezer with an inkbird temp controller - Craigslist = cheap freezer. I think that made the biggest difference in consistency and quality for me. That being said I did...

Did you save any bottles from the old batch to compare to the second batch? I wonder if non bjcp people could tell a difference between the two. Oh, just out of curiosity, can I ask your scores? I'm assuming my California common won on a weak category and figure to really do we you need an...

Nice job! I put a few in that competition, my scotch ale did well in points (i think? 78/100 combined) but didn't place and my california common did well but I think it was a weaker category. Are you entering the same batch in all of these or have you brewed multiple batches over the last few...

Saturday: Taking the RZR offroad racing up near Utica, NY.... Sunday: Brewing a scotch ale.... Wife is away for the weekend :)

Yeah that's pretty much what I want to do. Thanks for info!

Just looked and there is. That would probably work perfectly. Now to order a bunch of stuff from Bobby.

I have the 630s. I'll have to look up if there is a cleaning adapter rather than taking the faucet off.

looks like a good idea, i'll try one out. I have a few of your ball lock to ball lock adapters so i'd like to set it up to pump cleaner from a bucket through the tap line, out the one faucet post (remove the faucet) back into another faucet post down the line, through the ball lock to ball lock...

Stone's "go to IPA" It wasn't the worst beer I have had but it was one that I was probably the most disappointed in. I've loved most of Stone's beers so I had high hopes for this one but to me it just had a very bland flavor. To be honest i'm not sure exactly what about it I didn't like but it...