Recent content by Masterofgravity

I guess I need to brush up on my dark malts, chocolate is only brown? The cold steep liquid I added was jet black

I added the cold steep liquid and put it in the barrel. I'll update with how it turned out in a few months.

Thanks for the replies, I appreciate it. I did think of the infection issue, don't want any lacto in this brew so I'd probably bring the cold steep up to 180 after its ready to hopefully kill anything before adding it. I get the opion to just leave it and I may do that.. My only reason for...

Hey everyone looking for some advice. I made a Russian imperial stout and its almost done fermenting but it's more dark brown than black like I want. I was thinking of cold steeping some more chocolate malt and then adding that to the fermentor, thoughts?

How long do you guys leave this beer on fruit before kegging/bottling? I split mine half on raspberries half on peaches two weeks ago and I'm getting antsy.

Awesome based on the craigslist map, these look like they're from the distillery right up the road from me. Hoping to get one of these barrels.

My first batch was bottled after 5 weeks and it's good but definitely getting better with age. Waiting helps but the allure of Apfelwein makes that hard.

Thanks for the input everyone, I'll give it a few months and see what happens.

It's a 6 1/2 gallon carboy with 6 gallons in it. Last time I used the same one with only 5 gallons of juice and it worked fine, almost no krausen. I cleaned and sanitized everything as I always do when brewing. Very strange.

I used Montrachet, followed the original recipe.

So I just made my second batch yesterday and today I'm seeing a huge krausen, the first batch never had one. Did I introduce something bad into the batch?

I have the pre-built one. I figured as you said, the amount of time and tools would likely even out the cost. I've brewed with the pannel about 4 times now, going again today, it's been great once I got everything figured out. I'm actually using it uniquely, I don't do BIAG, I have a 3V...