Recent content by loosey

thanks ed, I plan to brew 10 gallons of this in a week... I've got 2 oz of centennial, but I'm sitting on over a pound of cascade (8.7%) and a pound of ahtanum (6%) hops I'd like to use up.. i know its not the same beer if i sub out, but if i were to try i have no idea which to use for...

yeah def a belgian pale, and i agree that the hops are very much there but not necessarily bitter or haevily dry hopped... maybe they are just very heavy with late hop additions... actually the gentleman farmer who sold me the hops, in addition to owning that largest hop farm in belgium...

thanks for the advice, my sentiments exactly about using them to make a Belgian style (at least the bulk of them).. I'm definitely going to try a dubbel.. As for getting them back in, I just put them in the backpack and crossed my fingers... they were in sealed opaque bags too, I figured at...

I just got back from a nice trip to beautiful Belgium. I was lucky enough to meet up with a hop farmer in a bar outside the hop museum in Poperinge, and copped some samples from him. I got about 7oz of 9% Target and 3.5oz of 4.5% Styrian Goldings from him (for 5 euro!). I've never brewed any...

hey olllllo, just bought our tickets for a trip in may, thanks for this post (and the others) it will be very helpful when we get there... we'll be spending half our time in brussels (about 4 days) and looking for someplace to spend the rest... anyone have any experiences outside the larger...

Hey jack, im curious when you say 'an amount of camp and k-sorb' how much are we talking? for the orginal 5 gallon batch i put 5 camp tabs in to kill any wild yeast, but now that ive cold crashed and am looking to just get this set up to backsweeten, how much of each do i really need? im afriad...

i did my 1st and only cider that way too, using a juiceman junior from the 80's, just a few months ago. yes, you should be careful to clean it out every few lbs and keep it spinning at high speeds one apple at a time... i had about 30lbs of apples and topped off what came out with about 2...

great post, and thank you kindly... i have a question about this fan i salvaged form an ancient tower. its got 3 wires coming out of it: red, black and white... if red is the juice and black is the ground, whats the white one for and what should i do with it assuming i can make it work with this...

yes i did use an ale yeast, sorry i left that out... thanks for the quick reply!

for me, lactose is not an option (allergic) and artificial sweetners just taste bad.. but I'd like to sweeten up a cider I have before kegging it... I'm hesitant (maybe unnecessarily) of dropping more campden tablets in there because I used them in the beginning after pressing the apples and im...

hey everyone. this was my fist entirely at home brew, the recipe is listed below here. everything went relatively smoothly and i think the beer will turn out just fine. i have one question about the gravity however.. BS estimated 1.048 for my final but i measured it at 1.040 at 80F. even...

thanks kindly... im over here doing math but now i dont have to worry... this software is fantastic ...

hey everyone... first let me say that while i only recently registered and this is my first post, i genuinely appreciate all the advice and insight i've gotten reading this board over the past few months. i've done quite a few all extract brews at a BOP place near my house (some clones and...