Recent content by keevie

I've considered this before, but I don't have any buckets or extra giant pots (just two carboys and my main 8 gallon BK). Maybe I should get one since they're so cheap, but on the other hand, I doubt three pounds of dme in this is going to make much of a difference in the taste. Thanks for the...

I biab, and can only mash about 12 pounds of grain without overflow. If i just replaced about 5 pounds of the belgian pale malt with some DME---would that work out okay?

I would brew something like this https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f171/easy-ginger-ale-208888/ and mix it with rum...I haven't had it, but it seems pretty clear that the alcohol is from rum and not fermented ginger beer.

See the text at the very top. 60 minute boil---a bunch of people have posted in this thread wondering about DMS with a 60 rather than 90 minute boil, but I had no hints of DMS with mine, and most people seem to be doing the 60 minute boil as written.

So seven days in, and the gravity has been sitting at about 1.018 for the past three days, down from 1.056. The samples are pretty sour though, and a little bitter aftertaste. Getting better for sure, but still not really good. There's also a crazy amount of trub/general particulate matter that...

Last weekend, I made about two gallons of pear juice from the pear tree in my yard, and wanted to make cider---so I headed to my local home brew shop, and asked them what I needed. I got campden tablets, champagne yeast, and yeast nutrient. First I added a campden tablet to each ~gallon, and...