Recent content by Jholloway77

I started with the brewhouse kits and ended up with some good beer. The first one I made was a Cream Ale, I think I still have a couple of bottles of it in the basement. All my guy friends hate it (yet love miller) and all the girls I know love it *score!* I moved on to extract brewing because I...

I just poured a pilsner kit into the fermenter this week, except my og was about 1.50, not 1.060. This is more in line with the info on the website (The brew house). Under the advanced section it says that if you only add half the water it will turn out more like a malbock than a pilsner - a...

After accidentally downgrading my racking cane into several dozen pieces of plastic I searched around my house so see what I could use for a quick fix. I connected my bottle filler directly to the tubing. The thing works great. Connect to the keg, place in the bottle and fill. I end up with the...

I don't see why the whiskey would separate. Coke is primarily water and alcohol is soluble in water. If I remember my chem classes correctly it's because ethanol and H2O are both polar molecules. Once you get to the higher alcohols, past butanol I think, alcohols become insoluble due to the...

I'm brewing a triple and planning on kegging it and then aging it for a few months. The problem is I have only one keg and I want to have another beer on tap as soon as possible. Is it possible for me to force carb the triple, blast out the sediment, bottle it (using the BMBF by the way) and...

Hi everyone. I've brewed a few batches of beer using Brewhouse beerkits and this time I decided to try modifying it. The recipe tells me to heat 4 liters of the brewhouse and water with the grains, add the hops and sugar, then boil. After that cool it, throw it in the fermenter and add some...