Recent content by Robar

Okay yet another update. Quite chocolatey at the finish, but pretty tasty none the less. I dry hopped with a half oz of centennial for a week. I'm going to pull my hop bag and hit it with a second dry hopping just for ****s and giggles. To try to get closer to the original beer I'm going to cut...

http://www.greatlakeshops.com/ Here is a very good place to go that many people here on HBT have bought from.

Everybody knows this guy. His truck goes through more mud, hauling more wood, pulling a bigger trailer... Oh it's a Chevy too so don't be parking your old Dodge in his drive way. His rifle is better, shoots flatter and has taken more deer than that ratty ass old rifle that was passed down to you...

I have half a dozen different craft brews & imports in the fridge, but what am I drinking? You guessed it! Edwort's House Pale. Just a straight up good beer that you want to drink day after day.

I don't let my woman tell me when I can and cannot drink so I sure as hell don't listen to a clock. ;)

LOL looks like the breakfast I used to have 15 -20 years ago only I drank Labatt Blue as my daily flavor back then. I never frown on anyone for starting the day with a good beer. Good Beer - Good Day

Isn't letting the remaining yeast clean up and settle out why we go to secondary?

I'm certainly not the most knowledgeable brewer here, but if you want to rack it over to your secondary I wouldn't let a couple bubbles stop me. Not knowing what you brewed 1.014 doesn't tell me quite enough, but as a general rule for a large percentage of ales that's in the neighborhood of done.

I've had good success with Notty, but I have gotten some noticeable tartness when fermenting in the mid 60's. I have a beer that I brewed friday on Notty right now, but the basement was 55-56 deg. when I brewed. Right now it might be up to 60. I'm not afraid to use Notty at all this time of year.

Thought I'd throw a little update out on this beer. As stated above the OG was 1.070 Well just racked it from the secondary to a keg for a little carbing and took a reading and ended up with an FG of 1.012 so thats something like 7.6 ABV? My plan for this is to eventually dry hop with a half oz...

TRUE I do stir often to try and combat this. About every ten minutes I give a good stir trying to keep the mash we mixed to ensure the temps are as consistent as I can get them.

+25 2 pales, 2 porters, 1 black ipa = 52,043

Thanks for the links. I've been trying to put a little more science into my seat of the pants style of brewing. Accurate measurements and Temps seem like a great place to start. Accuracy & Consistency = Known & Repeatable Results. ;)

Brewed mine back on 11/11 so today it's 19 days old. I have it in the keg and carbed so I gave it a little taste. This some GOOoooDD Stuff!! Can't wait until christmas and New Years.

Yep! I store my rinsed bottles upside down in the cases as above. When I need to bottle I submerge in a bucket of star san swirl an ounce or so as mentioned above and dump. I do a doz. or so then bottle and cap. Repeat. It's simple and I've never had a problem with my bottles or the beer in...