Recent content by JamesZ

My Russian Imperial Stout has been in primary for two weeks. I want to bottle it, but every few minutes I see a bubble come through the airlock. Fermentation temp has been about 59-60 degrees. Could it still be fermenting? Can I go ahead and bottle now? Thanks Jz

Update: the blueberry kolsch has a beautiful red amber hue. It tastes fruity, but not really blueberries. It is not what I was going for, but very good nonetheless. Jz

I am making a very basic wheat beer and I want to add raspberry extract to it. In your experience how much raspberry extract should be added to a five gallon batch of beer. In answering this question, please do not tell me that real fruit is better (that seems to be the answer to this question...

Update: I bottled the Blueberry Kolsch. When I opened up the primary the blueberry puree was floating on the top in clumps. The beer seemed to smelled of blueberries. When I siphoned the beer into the bottling bucket I set aside a small amount for tasting. The beer tasted fruity or sugary...

I found the Fair Dinkum Sparkling Aussie Ale recipe in the Papazian book. I want to make it, but I don't want to make a pure extract beer (nothing against those). Any other ideas on what I could do to add to this recipe to improve it? Fair Dinkum Sparkling Aussie Ale Ingredients: 3 3/4...

Hey there everybody. I am new to brewing and I am absolutely obsessed with it. I spent a year and a half living in the South Pacific and we only had a few choices of beer there. All three of them were absolutely horrible. As soon as I got back to the main land I started looking into...

It was a brewer's best kolsch beer kit. I divided the batch into three 2 gallon buckets, one of which was the blueberry bucket. The blueberries were rinsed with some water and then with star san solution. Then they were pureed in a food blender. After I stirred them into the beer I pitched the...

Quick question. I pureed a pound of blueberries and placed them into my primary (1.66 gallons) right before I pitched the yeast. The blueberries were not pasteurized. They were organic. I now realize I should have pasteurized them. My question is: Does my beer have any chance of coming out...