Recent content by owyheeguy

Odaniel, How did your recipe turn out? I think I had some bad yeast, it was outdated and got on discount, thats the last time I do that. It came out having a really bad soysaucy flavor.

This is the recipe I was thinking of using. 8lbs American two row pale 2lbs Crystal 5l 1lbs Flaked oats .5lbs Flaked barley .5lbs Flaked Rye 1.5oz Northern brewer at 60 1oz Goldings 30 1oz Goldings 10 8oz malto dextrin 1/2 tsp irish moss Wyeast 1314

Has anyone tried to make NB Irish blonde Ale? I was thinking about doing this one for the upcoming St pattys day :tank:.

I have had two batches now turn out with a funky (Lack of a better explination) dusty, soy saucy flavor. The first was a pumkin ale and the second was a Dunkel. I think the culprit was bad yeast. The Pumpkin ale is in bottles and has been there for 4 months with no change the dunkel has been in...

Force carbing is nice its much less muss and fuss, But it takes about the same amount of time to get the co2 to absorb into solution as it does to naturally carbonate.

My girlfriend wanted to try her hand at brewing and really likes the pumpkin beers expecially this time of year. So while we were trying to figure out how to do this we decided to try it a little different. So she found a yummy chocolate stout recipe and a good pumpkin ale recipe and tweeked it...

yea Im looking for some citrus aroma. How much would you use for the aroma and dry hop on a 5 gallon batch?

Thanks guys im super excited now to get this beer goin.

I made a stop by our local hop yard and they were harvesting there Zeus hops. The forman said I could take a couple pounds:ban: so now I was wondering what should i do with them. I was thinking of doing an all Zeus IPA but do you guys think a Zeus hop would work for the aroma flavor and the dry...

This is just a suggestion but co2 will absorbe into solution much easier at colder temps you should get it as close to freezing as possible, most beer will freeze at 28 degrees F. Also running the co2 down the product side, the tube on the product side will send the co2 to the bottom of the...