Recent content by Kyleisdesign

I purchased my own ticket to the 2014 NHC in Grand Rapids and just found out yesterday I won the FastRack challenge and received another ticket. Obviously I don't need both. The AHA won't honor any refunds on the original ticket at this point so I am left with needing to sell one. FastRack has...

Is there any place online that sells new 3L bottles or do you have to track them down as used empties?

I've done more digging and people have said aside from certain metals causing this flavor (which I don't believe to be the culprit) that possibly older malts and or hops could contribute this. Still doesn't explain why both times this occurred in a coconut beer.

Someone out in homebrew land has to have some experience with this or at least an educated guess. It's driving me nuts!

I have brewed with toasted coconut 3 times now and 2 out of the 3 batches have had a metallic off flavor that shows up after the coconut has been in secondary. I have been adding around 1.5lbs of toasted coconut flakes to a 5 gallon batch. The 2 beers that developed a metallic flavor were a...

Hmm now I am conflicted. Would it make sense to leave it at a happy medium and pitch the yeast in the morning so there would only be a 12 hour delay on pitching the yeast and only like a 12 hour delay until the nutrients are added?

That's what I assumed. Thank you for confirming! Everything was sanitized along the way so I should be good for 24 hours hopefully.

So I decided to brew a hard cherry limeade this evening. As I am cooling down the "wort" I go to measure out the Yeast Energizer and Nutrient only to realize that they are both not at my home and I cannot retrieve them until tomorrow evening. I am wondering whether I should go ahead and pitch my...