Recent content by MyCarHasAbs

The original recipe is found here. Man, I love Apfelwein I just thought I'd share my experience in tweaking this recipe. Instead of one sachet of the yeast and 1lb of corn sugar, I used 4lb's of corn sugar and 2 sachets of the yeast. Hoe Lee F***. LMAO I reached 15% ABV. Happy Brewing!! :)

^^^ ooooo, that's a good idea! The recipe says it'll be around 9%, but I'm trying to see if I can beat that marker.

those numbers look pretty sound to me! Thanks.

so if I'm doing my math right, 1qt/per gallon, 23qt's would be around 5ish gallons of mash water, and with a thicker mash comes a thicker bodied wort. Yes?

I've got my buddy's imperial stout recipe this weekend. It calls for 23lbs of grain, I have a 10 gallon mash tun. According to some calculators, I'll need around 7 gallons of mash water to start with. This site says my mash will take up about 9 gallons of space...

Problem solved my friends. Unscrewed the very top from the OUT line and some beer came out. Cleaned out some funk from the top and screwed it back on. Flowin’ like a river. Cheers everybody.

Lately I've been cold crashing almost all of my beers prior to kegging just because I was getting annoyed with the first few pours being a little hazy or cloudy.

I also do get the occasional "black gummy strand" that comes out. I always assumed it was maybe debris or pieces of left over yeast. A better description of this stuff is... black tofu.

to answer your second question, yes everything is in the chest freezer. The chest freezer is temperature controlled and set to around...40ish degrees at all times. I have a probe that goes inside along side the two kegs. All the lines are kept inside. As for freezing?.. I've never had slushy...

hmm, I was under the impression you're supposed to shake it a little bit to get the gas distributed faster throughout the keg. But i'll def try and pull the whole OUT line out and clean it later. I haven't bothered trying to get it out in the past because my other keg is so damn tight. I'm not...

EDIT, I love how it auto corrected to Poopy. Classy LOL

Would disconnecting all the hoses, bleeding the gas and then shaking the living **** out of it unclog the OUT line possible? This was a double IPA recipe that I brewed with a friend who's a professional brewer and I've never used 'this' many pellets before for a brew. I'd easily say a 1/3 of...

Oh yeah, gas came out. I turned the gas down last night to about 8psi.

I have 2 kegs. Both have beer in them. I noticed the other day while shaking the newly kegged beer up there was a good liter or 2 of beer just sitting in the bottom of the chest freezer. No obvious signs of a leak anywhere. But I decided to place the suspected keg in a bucket outside the chest...

Okay, I have the temp control unit set to about 38F. I generally set and forget at 12psi and draw back to 8 or 9 once it’s carbed. For this one.. because I’ve been waiting for ****in’ ever for it to be ready and drinkable haha (it’s been aged with whiskey chips.. SOOO good!) I’m planning on...