Recent content by ozzy4355

Im about to try and make my own apricot puree and add it to an IPA i brewed yesterday. How did yours end up turning out. Any tips on the whole process?

It's been 5 weeks since bottling and the beers still have a little bite to the , to get rid of it I will pop the cap about ten minutes before drinking and then pouring them vigorously into one of my large beer glasses. The beer is good but Its not great. I did some experimenting and added a...

Can you buy corn sugar at the store. I tried to find it the other day but all I saw was regular white sugar, what about priming with cane sugar

Wow, I'm going to make sure I have some gloves on and long pants next time into moving my carboy around. How does this happen, if you drop it does it turn into some kind of glass grenade?

Know most of you on here are all grain but I'm just getting started with homebrewing and has been using extract kits from northern brewer. Unfortunately my first two beers were sub par, partially due to carbonic bite. Have any of you brewed a great beer with an extract kit, something that if you...

The water I used was called primo, I just got a 5 gallon jug of it that you would normally put in an office water cooler. I'm pretty over zealous about cleaning everything with Pbw after I brew and before the next batch and give it a good soak in starsan so I don't think it's infected. Any...

Ice bath for both. It was my first and second batch.

I used bottled water for both batches. It has a metallic sharp taste, sounds like the carbonic bite. It mellows out a little if I let the beer sit after I pour it. It's already been three weeks in bottles and the taste is still strong. I guess I'll just sit on it a few more.

Thanks I'll give corn sugar a try. I used the priming sugar calculator on northern brewer and even tried to back it off a little. I think it is that carbonic bite, that is the way I would describe it. Is there anything I can do to get rid of that flavor, let it sit out for a while before I drink it?

I brewed my first batch about 3 months ago, an "Carribou Slobber" brown ale from Northern Brewer. Everything went pretty well for my first batch, moved it to secondary after two weeks, bottled it after two more. Once i cracked open the first bottle the beer looked great, nicely carbonated, not...

I've been reading a lot of posts about coffee stouts and I'm considering making my own chocolate coffee stout. I just finished up a big honking Stout from Northern Brewer that was delicious and I was going to order another kit add some lactose cocoa nibs and coffee. I was wondering what everyone...

I'm bored and thinking about dry hopping a stout, but I don't feel like racking to do so. How did yours turn out?

What will fat do to the beer?

I'm sure this question has been answered but why can't you use milk chocolate in beer. I see a ton of posts about unsweetened powder or cacao nibs but never some melted ghardelli chocolate

How much will the flavor of the priming sugar effect the taste of the beer. I am about to bottle my first brew and was considering using brown sugar. Anyone have any experience or advice for priming with brown sugar?