Recent content by jamieofthenorth

Bottled four weeks now and it's fantastic. Wow. Best brew I've done so far.

If somebody gives me one, I'll try it, but given the wealth of awesome and obviously local microbrews here in Maine along with my own buttkicking homebrews, I'm good. If nothing else, it shows that real microbrews are continuing to grow in popularity and the bigger guys are trying to get a...

Very cool! Good luck with the project.

Nice! Good plan with being okay with truly throwing away the throw away batch should it be needed. I'd recommend getting those hose clamps to replace the duct tape before the next batch, but I'm guessing you already plan to do that.

Ah, thanks for all of the responses. Good to know. Maybe I'll save the money and trouble and forgo the fence.

Has anyone ever had any problems with animals eating/destroying your hop plants? I'll probably build a small garden fence just in case given that I live on the edge of a large section of woods, but was curious if anyone has had any problems. If so, ever catch the culprits? Skunks? Rabbits...

Brewing this now. Yooper, thanks for the recipe! Somewhat new to all-grain, so I was very stoked to have nailed the pre-boil gravity. Things are going smooth, can't wait.

I've only used Beersmith 2, but am very happy with it.

What a great idea! Any homebrewer would love a gift like that. Do you guys have any brewing software? That might be a nice addition.

Hey, that looks pretty cool! Novel idea for a game.

Killer. It's a great hobby. I'm somewhat new myself. I found this video particularly helpful for learning more about the all grain process:

If you checked in on Untappd with those, you'd probably earn a thousand gazillion badges.

Thanks Arturo. I found the videos on YouTube which did indeed answer a lot of questions. My remaining head scratchers have to do with Beersmith 2... specifically why it doesn't give me a volume for the mash out and also why it says to fly sparge (and gives a volume for that). Regardless, I guess...

I need a little help here. I'm pretty new to all-grain, having only done four BIAB batches before but now I've built a mash tun and am eager to use this recipe on it for the first time. I also just purchased BeerSmith 2 and I'm still learning it. I plugged this recipe into BeerSmith, which is...

Going to do this one next. Wife hinted strongly that she wants an altbier and it sounded good to me as well. Thanks for the recipe.