Recent content by raven1a

Agreed. 4 weeks should be no trouble at all. I've got an imperial pumpkin ale that's been sitting for 5-6 weeks and I'm not worried about it carbing at all.

Chilis and chocolate work EXTREMELY well together. Consider a chocolate chili all of some kind.

Yeah. Get over it...Accidentally hit the send button...It's there now.

Take this for what it's worth. I've been drinking nothing but my own Two Hearted clone that I've dubbed Two Faced in keeping with my Batman brewing name of Riddell Me This Brewing (Last name is Riddell) and my citrus wheat. Seriously, if you're panicking about something being wrong...RELAX...

Call it a lambic and drink it fast. :rockin:

My guess? You had it too cold. #ducktoavoidflyingbrings

I clone out of pride. "Can I brew Bell's Two Hearted or Southern Tier's Pumking or Lagunitas Doppel Weizen just as good as them?" So far, my Two Hearted recipes is almost perfect. I clone to make my beer snob friends say "Damn, that's as good, if not, better than XXXXX." To know I...

Who? Me? Hell no. Unless it makes me vomit when I taste the samples, it's still beer.

IMHO, it sounds like you're learning. You should be tasting the samples to see how the beer changes through all stages of the process to better understand it all. I typically end up with 2-3 bottles more than 2 cases when I bottle. I use those bottles as "test bottles" to examine how to...

Just for the record, I panicked last night when I saw that and went and searched the site for pics of infections until I was satisfied that I was fine.

I've got a doppel weizen that looks like that right now. You're fine. My fermenter temp went up a little past what I would like in the last couple of days and cause more CO2 to gas out causing the bubbles in mine. Mine tastes great. It does have the alcohol burn of a 8.5% hefeweizen but...

I've never really spoken up on any of this before because I'm pretty new to this as well, but what I have found from seaching the site via google (put site:www.homebrewtalk.com in the search bar. It really does kick ass.) is that beer is not a delicate flower. It is a hearty beast and more...

I own one of those. If you put anything in the water before you carb it, such as the concentrate or even the oils for adding like a lemony taste to the water, when you carb it it just sprays all over. If you were to put beer in the bottle, it'd be like heavily shaking a beer bottle and opening it.

And, after tasting the sample... Damn, I'm looking forward to October. ;)

I actually did 2 oz at 60 and 2 at 5 and added 1oz of Willamette DH. When I bottled it, it was OUTSTANDING!!!