Recent content by MT_hop_head

I just bottled a batch of "Button Pushing Monkey Ginger Snack". It's an extract kit Oatmeal Stout, with about 5oz of fresh grated ginger boiled into the wort for about the last half hour. Smelled exactly like fresh baking gingerbread when I was boiling it up.

I've been experimenting with different hop additions to regular extract brewing kits. I would like to make something like a Czech Pilsener that's much more hoppy. I've got a batch in the primary now, and I'm thinking about doing a dry-hop of about 1oz of Simcoe. I know that will probably crush...

Hey, I found this forum by googling "simcoe". I'm looking at trying some simcoe hops, and was looking for some info. Went to a brewfest in Gardiner, MT a couple of weeks ago, and heard that some of the folks that were making really tasty IPAs were using simcoe hops. Right now I have a double...