Recent content by Hurphy

My parents have been retired since 2020 and I gave them a rhizome of cascade to grow in their garden around this time, well now the plant is over 10 feet tall and they harvest anywhere from 5-8 ten gallon buckets of hops each season. My mother has been making them into seasonal wreaths at...

I get 10 beans for like 8 dollars from Amazon.

Question: just serve with beer gas? Or carb AND serve with beer gas?

Sorry for the necro-post but I have to ask this question: how are you guys getting ANY flavor with one or two beans? I have been brewing for around 4 years and have used vanilla beans, cut and scraped, 5-10 at a time and get almost zero flavor after secondary of over a month. This just blows my...

This is interesting. I randomly decided to do something similar but in a brown ale and minus the nutmeg. I’m dialing back the spices though. 1 tsp cin powder .25 tsp allspice 3 tbls vanilla extract

How long did you roast and at what temperature?

Has anyone learned the trick with this yeast after all these years? I used this earlier this summer and fermented at like 55 degrees and the beer turned out great. Did the same thing three weeks ago and the hydrometer sample tasted sour. Seriously wtf is wrong with this yeast?

This thread should be destroyed. Most of the tips are flat out wrong.

HB cascadian black ale. My recipe.

Homebrewed Irish red ale. Swapped the flaked barley for flaked corn. Now it’s a Nebraska Scarlet and Cream ale.

Love your marzen’s color. What srm did you hit?

Dry Irish stout that I just kegged last week

You think that is bad? Their hops are marked up usually about double.

Yeah, I guess I should take more time to be an internet sleuth before I commit to an order. I was in a hurry, also a bind, saw the familiar UI and had thoughts but a lot of sites also do that are not affiliated, but I digress. In the end, the service is ****.

I am for the most part. The only reason(s) I had two more orders was because I couldn’t find a particular grain anywhere else for an Irish red I wanted to do and the other reason was totally an accident as I didn’t realize until I checked out that Midwest is northernbrewer in disguise. I...