Recent content by Hazen01

I have had a batch of Russian Imperial Stout in secondary for about 3 months and it looks great. I am ready to bottle it now and I was wondering if there is a way that I can tell if there is enough yeast left to carbonate it in the bottles? Or is there a way that I can repitch to make sure...

I split the batch last night and added the steeped apple juice. This will prolong the primary fermentation, but hopefully the results will be good. I will let you know.

I have decided to steep an apple spice tea and then add it to the five gallons that I am removing from my main fermenter. I am using Apple juice and steeping cloves one stick of cinnamon and some allspice along with the zest from an orange. I hope that this gives me the spice notes that my...

I put my first batch of Graff together last weekend, and I would like to spice up 1/2 of it to make a Christmas Graff. I have 12.5 gallons and I was going to siphon off 12 today and add the spices to let it finish with them before bottling. Does anyone have any suggestions? I was thinking...