Recent content by Jumboag

I posted this as my comments on the beer on the AHS site. In retrospect, I think my OG reading was wrong because the beer has no indication of being that out of "whack". If you really are trying to duplicate Old Fezziwig, this AHS beer is not the one you want. Keep searching for an actual...

I kegged the AHS Chocolate Orange a couple of weeks ago. Its on CO2 right now. First off a caveat: It did not ferment fully. The ABV is way too low in the 3.9 - 4.0 range. It just never took off and I didnt feel like chasing it to try to fix it. Having said that its not a bad beer. I dont...

FWIW, I made a mini-mash of the AHS recipe referenced by Firstnten several weeks ago. I'll keg it this weekend and tap it around Thanksgiving. I'll let everyone know how similar it is to the Sam Adams. It wont be dead on b/c the profile doesn't match, but it should be w/in the ballpark.

I've got a dual tap edgestar kegerator and because of the beers I'll have on tap this fall, have a need to have one tap CO2 fed and the other Beergas fed. There's only a hole for a single gas line through the back of the unit. Wondering if anybody's safely drilled a second hole in this...

Do I need to worry about having enough yeast left to eat the sugar since I 2 stage ferment (2 weeks primary 2 secondary) before kegging?

In another week I'll be kegging my second brew (5th overall). The irish red I kegged first came out great (other than I should have been a bit more aggressive force-carbing it. It recovered and got to the right CO2 level after about a week.) My kegerator holds 2 kegs. I have the homebrew'd...