Recent content by K2brewfisher

So I have been doing plain old cider for a while. I'm about to get 25 gallons right off the orchard masher in the next few weeks. Great opportunity to experiment. gunna do 10 gals of my tried and true plain old cider. thinking of filling 3, 5 gallon carbons with the rest and doing other recipes...

multiple times hydrometers and thermometers have been in a Sanitizer bucket that gets kicked over onto the patio, or gets something hard thrown into it....and so we end up with no o.g, f.g, or both for a batch of beer. Needless to say, the beer came out good, I just don't no if I hit my marks or...

If you are getting an off taste, but you are anal about cleaning and temps ect, I would look at your water source. I have very iron and sulfur rich water( well water In Maine is basically dissolved granite) so I stick with 2.5 gallon or larger "water dispenser jugs" like u might see in an...

Thanks for the info.

Hey there, We are going to be kegging our next batch of beer. My simple question is, can we draw off from the keg into 6-12 bottles and cap them at a time so that we can bring bottles to friends? Or would the beer go flat or be ruined?

I have used chamomile around those quantities before and never had an issue. it is often used in wheat beers and I have never heard of anybody having issues. Personally I haven't had great luck with w34 but the 2 times I used it I found it fermented better at 64ish degrees. try different things...

I prime everything with maple because I make maple. Therefore I pretty much have "free" almost unlimited supply of light, medium, dark, extra dark, half boiled, grade a, and b. I have also used in boils to increase gravity.I have actually finished small amount of syrup to a specific gravity that...

my buddy and I have done a lot of experimenting with stouts, and we came up with a decent recipe 5.25gallon 11lbs 2 row 2 pounds roasted barely 1 pound flaked barely 1 pound chocolate malt (add to mash last) 1 pound crystal 90-120 Optional 0.5-1lb carapil and/or black patent we...

Hey, Me and a friend have jumped right into brewing back in August. We started with all grain batches even though everybody we talked too said we should start with extracts. we build most of our equipment, and I have been the one making the recipes. So far we have made a 5 gallon ipa that came...