Recent content by PassionForThePint

I'd leave it on unless the wort starts to get too warm. Or just put it on during the nights. Luckily, the forecast I saw doesn't keep this cold around for too many more days.

I'm dealing with similar issues here in Tampa. From what I've seen so far, they should come back to full speed when they warm up. It's not often we have this kind of problem, usually it's trying to keep the beer cool as it's fermenting. I'm a lot better at fixing that problem.

Based on this thread https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/honey-rosemary-saison-281446/ I'm working on putting together a honey-rosemary saison.

Thanks, I'm leaning towards this being the beer that we go with. Going to pick up some ingredients in a week or two and do a test run.

I'm sorry that I can't help you with which to keg/bottle, but I have to tell you I love the idea for a honey rosemary saison. I'm brewing a beer to give as wedding favors, and that just moved to the top of my list of beers I'm considering.

My coffee equipment almost takes up as much room as my homebrewing equipment.

I'll second that! I just had it this weekend for the first time and I wouldn't mind another one right about now.

Basic Brewing http://www.basicbrewing.com/ and Beersmith http://www.beersmith.com/blog/ are two that I regularly listen to.

I second the Bulldog. Overall I was surprised how many bars in NOLA had good beer.

I'm a big fan of using cold brewed coffee and adding to the secondary, after some of the alcohol has developed and could find off anything in the coffee. I do make sure to sanitize the cold coffee brewer, but the ground coffee worries me. However, no problems yet and I've done this a few times.

I also started with one too. My experiment was more like a soda with some beer to it, but it got me hooked on brewing. It wasn't long after that I did my first extract batch.

Oh man, not excited to hear that. I'm moving out that way later this year and when I visited there to check things out, I saw that there was only one homebrew shop.

Good luck with it! I just started ordering from More Beer, so far I've been really happy with them.

From what I've tried, the cold brew method worked better for my beers. It had a smooth coffee flavor. I started out with about a cup of cold brew per five gallons. Now I do about two cups, because I love coffee. If you do go the cold brew way, just be careful because it's concentrated and a...

jkaylor, thanks for sharing those links. I think I'm going to have to give it try also.