Recent content by NeeDlzdos

I assumed it was just CO2 coming out of solution, but I've never seen it like that before in all my batches and I'd heard that Ringwood could be a finicky yeast. I think I'll bottle it and hope for the best.

So I'm doing an american styled pale ale, dry hopped. I pitched the Ringwood smack pack on 1/21 into a 1.050 wort and by 1/28 the S.G. was 1.018. Racked to secondary and dry hopped. Today (2/29) it is still bubbling, which is like 40 days out. Little tiny bubbles that just constantly rise out of...

I brewed the Fat Tire Clone (March/April) recipe as well only omitting the chocolate malt (which seemed wrong to me). While it produced a decent beer, it was not anywhere near fat tire. I would say the malts all blended together and nothing stood out very well. Tasted sorta like a confused amber...

I have an August 22nd 2011 pack of Wyeast that I want to pitch into a 1.065 OG 23 L (6.5 gal) winterfest ale batch. Mr Malty says that with that date on the pack and one pack I'll need a 6.5L starter! That sounds a bit gigantic to me. So, should I grow that whole thing up in some 1.040 SG DME...

Thanks for the suggestions pointerDixie214. I just hit up Moon River Brewery in Savannah, GA and that was pretty great. Cheers.

I'm driving back from Jacksonville, NC to Oklahoma City, OK and looking to stop at breweries along the way. I'm not terribly familiar with that part of the country or it's breweries and looking for suggestions. Thanks! here's my route...

When I put the december recipe into Beersmith 2.0 I get the SRM to be 8.6. What are you guys doing to up it to 14ish?