Recent content by MumbletonLane

I've seen a lot of suggestions to add some or all of a the Malt Extract well into the boil instead of at the start. This was my third batch so I decided to give it a shot. My kit came with LME and DME so I did the LME at the beginning, and added the DME about halfway through the boil. In...

Thanks for the feedback. I'm gonna give the Midwest Simcoe a try. Looks like a similar idea to dkm11b's recipe. You can all look forward to me posting dumb questions about this brew for the next few weeks :-)

I'm about to bottle my second batch and looking to do an IPA for my third. Looking for something with a well balanced flavor, not something that's hoppy for the sake of being hoppy. I know I'm not gonna match the quality, but fwiw, my favorite IPAs are Two Hearted and Racer 5. Thanks

It was an extract. For what it's worth, I ordered the grains uncrushed and did my best to crush them with a wine bottle with middling results. According to the page http://www.midwestsupplies.com/porter.html 8 oz. Carapils, 8 oz. Black malt specialty grain The darker grains got pulverized, but...

For my second brew I'm doing the 5 gallon porter kit from Midwestern. Brewed on 1/27 and pitched the included Munsons Dry Yeast, which I had rehydrated, when the wort was at 70 degrees into my bucket. SG was 1.044. After 12 hours the airlock started bubbling, but that stopped after about...

First batch was an Irish Red that came out pretty good despite being cloudy as hell. My new brew is a Porter extract kit I got from Midwest. I didn't read till after I put it in the fermentor that boiling covered is A Bad Thing. What can I do to minimize the damage? Thanks.