Recent content by RascalKing

I just picked up some Pennsylvania Brewing Co. St. Nikolaus Bock. The one I drank was amazing, the other I'm putting in my collection. Batch #001

I was kind of thinking a high gravity apple stout sounded good. Stout for me, high gravity for the lady:ban:. anyways, i just pitched it so wish me luck. The OG was around 75, so hopefully the yeast makes it through. If not, lesson learned.

I am just experimenting and my wife challenged me to make a snakebite in a bottle. I did some research and found online that adding apple juice to the wort will be the best way to creat an apple flovor to a beer. I have a Murphys Irish Stout clone with WLP004 Irish Ale Yeast and 2 gallons of...

I was wondering if there was any natural way of adding apple flavor to a beer other than just adding an apple extract(found some at LHBS but would prefer to do more organic way). I didnt have muck luck searching the site, so figured i would ask. Thanks, RK

I was at a sub sandwich restaraunt and saw that they sell their used 5 gallon pickle buckets for $2. They are airtight and food grade. I was thinking i could clean and drill an airlock hole in the lid so i could use this as another fermenter. This is just thinking, but does anyone have any ideas...

Cool. Thanks

thank you. i may have gotten to impatient, but i went ahead and transferred to my carboy. i figure if it is horribe, i will just chalk it up to my first brew and try again to learn. i got some of the gunk in the brew in transfer, but figure it will just settle out and i can get it out when i...

we had a "heat wave" over the past few days and i reached i max temp of 80F. i tried adding ice but ended up jsut switching out the water in the tub to gradually lower the temp to back within the optimum band. i enede up being outside the band for a good portion of the day. how bad would you say...

Thanks for clerifying that. i checked the sg yesterday morning and then tonight and there was no change, so the fermentation process is pretty much done. why continue in the primary from here? what are the bonuses gain by doing this vice racking in the carboy to clear up? thank you guys again

what is it?

Thanks for the replies. One more question, when i transfer to the secondary, do i include the solid buildup at the bottom of the fermenter? is that yeast? i want to open up my primary and my brew is almost done fermenting. i figgured i could put it into my glass carboy to finish fermenting for a...

I currently have an Oktoberfest Ale in my primary and had a couple questions about secondary fermenting. What exactly is the purpose of having a secondary? Which is better, a long primary fermentation period or a long secondary fermentation period? I still have a while before I transfer...

i am still new to home brewing and am using White labs WLP862 Cry Havoc yeast and am sure unsure about this yeast. is this a good yeast? does anyone have experience/ horror stories in regards to this yeast?

im pretty sure that is the yeast im using. I read somewhere that fermenting higher on the optimum scale make the beer flavors bolder (keeping in the optimum scale of course), and that is what im looking for. is that advice worth anything, or just bs?

i didnt think of a submersible fish tank heater. i am using white labs yeast. i really dont know much more then that. it was what was recommended by someone with much more experience then me for what is was trying to brew.