Recent content by Jahnghalt

After 10 day primary, and 11 day secondary ferment (with dry hops), we primed and bottled half the batch (from the richer of the two carboys). Using a turkey baster, I extracted about 4 oz. and chilled the sample. Had a taste and decided to try added 1 oz. water to 2 oz. beer - too light...

First "solo" boil. Using recipe in this thread. This is way too much detail for established brewers - offered for the fun of it - and to encourage novices to get after it with minimal equipment. It was a rainy Saturday - this Labor Day weekend, therefore a good time to brew beer. Up...

Thanks for the micro-mash tip. Oven goes down to 180F minimum - so will regulate temp on the stove. Thanks Again

Thanks for your prompt reply - I owe you a homebrew! As have you noted, this is an extract and cracked grain recipe - suitable for us, since we don't have mashing apparatus. Please take a look at the originally posted recipe below (or follow the link). The author refers to the Amber Malt...

I'm AKD200's brewing partner. I'd like comments on this rewrite (for a simple guy like me) My questions are: 1) At what point should we add the grain?, what temp?, how long? (I took a guess below) 2) Should we add the the 1/2oz Amarillo after killing the burner? How long? 3) Any other...

I "helped" AKD200 with the boil and helped drink it (so did a number of others). Dave may have a little left, but not much.