Recent content by jw8140

Question for you bob, when you say mash, my assumption is you are talking about the standard single infusion mash method? My plan was to mash all the grains in a nylon bag at 155-156' for about 55 minutes. Do you think it would still yield the problems you mentioned if it was handled this way?

Sorry, should have thrown that in there. Estimated O.G is right around 1.052 and the IBUs is set at 22.23 for five gallons.

Hey guys, I've done roughly ten or so brews, ranging from porters, to IPAs, all from kits with pre-determined ingredients. While I've tweaked all of them to ad my own personal touch, I've never formulated my own recipe before. below is a listing of some ingredients i'm hoping to try in a few...

Hi all! I'm new to this and was marginally disturbed when after transferring my cider to the secondary I noticed that after 48 hours what looks like another yeast cake is forming at the bottom! When I transferred I left about a quarter inch of cider in the bottom of the last carboy so as not to...

So several friends and I decided to start a 5 gal batch of cider for the holidays about a week ago. However, the task of actually doing all the work fell to me. So as not to disappoint them I wanted to see if so far I'm doing this right. Used store bout cider that had quite a but of natural...