Recent content by ironcash

Here are a couple recipes I found in The Homebrewer's Garden by Joe and Dennis Fisher. I haven't tried either of these yet, but I think I am going to try a variation of the first recipe here soon. Since 'tis the season. Dandelion Bitter Yield: 5 GALLONS INITIAL GRAVITY: 1.045-1.056 FINAL...

alright I've been reading up on that strawberry blonde I think thats my recipe, once I get to portland (and hopefully have a place to stay) I'm a start on it. Worse come to worse I could always brew it in the storage unit im getting :D

hey its only been 3 years since someone posted on this thread before me... that's not to long...

a funny news head i had to cut out of my local paper was "sex abuse not just a church problem"

alright thank you, I'm planning on a strawberry blonde as soon as I get moved to portland at the end of the month

whew good to know you can use regular bottle caps... I just collected a bunch of champagne bottles and trying not to spend any money on brewing until I move to portland in a month (I want to soooo bad though)

I was wondering about racking onto the fruit in the secondary as well, so 5 gal is sufficient? I'm kinda worried about losing a bulk of my beer to a strawberry explosion in the secondary. Also if using 5 gal for secondary is sufficient would using 6.5 be detrimental? causing harmful oxidizing...

I'm only two brews deep into this hobby, but I just put my brewing equipment togethor individually. I purchaced a 22 qt boiling pot from walmart (one of the black spotted ones for canning) and it was less than $20, for pretty much the same thing at the brew supply store in my town they wanted...

I kept seeing SWMBO around so i finally looked it up, haha pretty funny

I usually don't mind some pbr brings nostalgia, and its good if I'm hittin' the town, cus i know all my broke ass friends are gunna be bumming beers from me so i might as well leave the fancy stuff back in my fridge.

ok thank you unionrdr that makes sense. I'll make sure not to remove it when i get another one someday

Ya I did the exact same thing on my first batch of beer and ended up coating my arm in bleach rinsing it off and fishing for it. I was really worried that it wasn't going to turn out right. That batch technically just got done today, but I've been drinking it for the last few days and it...

ya I cleaned the airlock out last night, it had enough pressure to coat my shoulder/arm with a light layer of krausen when i pulled it out, and im going to clean it out again here in a minute... as for the ring I think it was a one time removal kind of thing (kind of like the plastic seal...

First off I'de like to say hello, I'm new to this forum but it seems like theres a pretty good community right here. I just brewed up my second batch of beer Thursday night and i noticed that my ferment bucket doesn't seal all the way. I boiled down 3 gallons of water and put it in the...