Recent content by jacobelong

I'll throw WLP720 Sweet Mead into the mix as a great semi-sweet cider yeast. My first attempt at cider used WLP002 (English Ale) at the recommendation of my LHBS, which was very dry and left a strong yeast-bread flavor which I found quite unpleasant. I prefer my cider on the off-dry /...

I recently bought two new 3gal kegs from AMCYL via Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OD2N53A/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20). This was the cheapest option I found online, as most stores I found with lower list prices were out of stock. My LHBS sells the same kind, but for about $13+tax more...

I use Star San. I didn't really measure it out - I use a clear plastic tub in which some old plastic dishes I bought back in college were packaged that holds around 2 gallons or so. It works well as a catch-all for the random stuff that needs to be sanitized during a bottling session, and I dunk...

FG was 1.016. The first 8-10 hours of fermentation the temps were too high - I'm not entirely sure what they were since I was asleep at that time, but when I checked on it in the morning the fermometer read 72-73 after being in a swamp cooler all night, so I expect it was in the mid-upper 70s...

@gmcapone - Haha, no he doesn't work in a restaurant :P If he did, after this incident especially I'd gracefully decline offers to dine there ha. Thanks for the kind words! I'm excited to taste the final product! I've already got a list of tweaks to the recipe for when I brew it next. What did...

So, this is 100% lighthearted and I'm not really concerned about my beer, but it's a story I thought I'd share since I know I'm not the only one who has experienced something like this :) My buddy Ricky and I brewed up an extract Founders Red's Rye "clone" last month and we bottled it last...

My brew buddy and I bottled my Red's Rye "clone" tonight after it sat in primary for roughly 3 1/2 weeks, getting a dry hop of 2oz Amarillo for 6 days. We filled 39x 12oz bottles, 4x 22oz bombers, and had a partial fill, which we drank :) And it was delicious. It had a very nice citrus / floral...

Dang. Count me in! :rockin:

Alright, so this has been sitting in primary for 13 days - I'll be racking to secondary tonight after taking a final gravity reading (I took one last Thursday after active fermentation settled down. I hit the target FG almost on the nose, but thanks to a slightly sloppy brew day, I missed the OG...

I'm going to brew a Red's Rye extract "clone" tonight on a recipe I put together based on this thread in particular: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/founders-reds-rye-ipa-clone-151489/ It's my first time creating my own recipe (of sorts), so I'm sure there'll be plenty of tweaking involved...