Recent content by linkaz

Here's a neat idea: replace the water in your bread with wort. :mug: Vörtbröd is apparently popular in Sweden and is a bit sweeter and darker than normal bread. Maybe next time I brew I'll snatch a cup or two of wort and give it a shot. Has anyone tried this before? Any good recipes?

I tried BIAB for the first time a couple weeks ago, mashing in a brew pot on top of a stand alone propane burner. Even with the burner on the lowest setting we had a hard time keeping it below 160F. Eventually we had to resort to turning the burner off all together for a while, then on for a...

I've noticed that it's not easy to get all the water out of the grain when sparging. I stir it regularly, but it seems like there's still a whole bunch of water left trapped in the grain after none will come out of the spigot any more. My question is, has anyone tried compressing or squeezing...

It can be a bit confusing, since there are pretty much an infinite number of ways to make good cider. What I did was to start out doing the most simple cider I could do: I bought a gallon of preservative free apple juice from Whole Foods that came in a glass jug, dumped some ale yeast in it...