Recent content by mikebenntt

Go for it!

My apologies. My search on my phone did not show these posts. Thanks.

My apologies. When I searched on my phone, these posts did not show up. One of the beauties of a "smart" phone.

Can you either PM me with this recipe or post it? Just had this excellent beer and I know they don't sell this in the Baltimore area.

Up to this point I had been doing 3 gallon BIAB batches on our glass convection stove top. This has not posed a weight problem previously, but now I want to brew 5 gallon batches (beer goes too fast!) and I'm concerned the weight issues with the grains and water could shatter the stove top...

I forgot to add in that I plan to add 1 oz of dried grapefruit peel at flameout. For some reason I can't get it added to Beersmith.

More details: Estimated ABV - 5.9% IBUs 44

Hi all. I am trying to build a recipe for a grapefruit beer, without using the grapefruit itself or grapefruit juice. I've taken part of the grain bill from a Shiner Ruby Red clone I saw and added a hop schedule I found on another thread. Take a look and give me any feedback on anything that...

Good info. I have a question maybe someone can help with. We live near Baltimore and it's been really cold. We only keep the house temp in the low 60s, so I was wondering if the ethos we are using is okay. We brewed a 2.5 gallon batch and put the fermentation bucket ins water bath with an...

Responding to Maegnar's first post. I just did my first batch 2 days ago also on an induction cook top. I did get to the hot break with a very vigorous rolling boil. I had to knock it down until the break finally came through. After that, I never did get it back to a rolling boil (at least...