Recent content by jake

thanks david that helps alot, ill have to take another look at plamers book and see if i can translate it directly into malt types. as for promash, i have it but find it incredibly confusing im gunna have to curl up by the fire with the user manual some day :) thanks for the quick replys...

I'm planning on picking up one of those 55 Lb bags of DME, now heres my question... I was planing on getting extra light and using it as a base for all my recipes and i was wondering if a recipe calls for lets say amber DME can i achieve the same results using Extra light DME and steeping...

I'm in a similar situation, just bought some apple juice myself for my first batch and like yours it listed water apple juice and vitamin c, and being someone who cant bare to live with him self if he returns five gallons of apple juice i followed up on it. i called my local shaws costumer...

Thanks for the advice heres my attempt number 2 i parodied the government warning but if i get sued I'm coming after you ;) and i love get a buzz on took me a minute to get it, but when i finally did it was that much sweeter

I used adobe photoshop, nice for changing and tweeking little peices around here and there, as for buying, i just bang out a bunch of copies on the lazer printer at work and use a glue stick to smack em on, works well so far

this is the my first label. I'm going to be gifting most of this batch so id appreciate any ideas on making it better. I was also thinking of putting some clever blurb on the right side but i cant seem to think of anything i must have wasted all my humor on the incredibly clever name :) -Jake

I came across a reference to it in Charlie papazians book the Joy of Home Brewing, the jist is its no where strong enough to be used as a sanitizer and when it comes to brewing beer it should be avoided all together, its basic use is in wine and meed as a bacterial inhibitor. I think my local...

ive always bollied my bottles however, I recintly got a bottle washer, the kind where you fill a reservoir and it sprays into the bottle. my local homebrew shop recommended a mixture of potassium metabisulphite 2oz to a gallon as a no rince sanatizer to use with it. looking at the lable it...

Recently I did a Nut brown ale kit. Fermentation started out at a rapid rate, but after 24 hrs. completly stopped. I have experienced massive change in fermentation of beers before, but I have never seen one stop completly within 24 hrs. I used about 1lb of brown sugar, 3lbs. of malts and some...

I live on tremont and can see the church from my window, used to go to wentworth.... and ya it a bit warmer now, but it is Mass and you know how it goes nice then crappy, cold then warm, merriment then plague. as far as my mistakes go, no need to relive them ill be making plenty more and I'm...

hello, i live out in roxbury, ma. those of you from the north east may be more familiar with the town known as "Held up at gun point in roxbury". I'm a bit new to brewing and to forums, but for the past six months this forum has been my resource for the answers to my "What the hell went wrong"...