Recent content by robbyhicks

The recipe is a gallon batch, I have to dive deeper into my notes to find out how long I boil and such... I also typically use Nottingham beer yeast for my carbinating but I have my kegging system started so I will likely keg and force carb my next batch...

Here is my typical base recipe I use for my root beer btw...

So we hosted an exchange student this past weekend and we wanted to make him a "taste of home" he said he missed the licorice "tea" his mother made. So after a couple of attempts we found a YouTube video and had him translate. Turns out it's actually a "licorice juice"... The method got me...

Coming into the thread late and I didn't read all the previous posts. This is a "root beer" recipe I developed by combining a few different ones. You end up somewhere between a cream soda and a root beer flavor, the typical comment is "That's not root beer, it's good but..." So I started calling...

Shust your pics didnt come through... Johnny, i looked at those but didnt find any that really floated my boat... i was gonna build the wet bar eventually anyway so i figure for the insulation, keg setup and freezer ill be into it for about 700...

So i like the concept and so well i went a head and ordered my freezer on amazon... i ordered a Midea WHS-109F Compact Single Reversible Door Upright Freezer, 3.0 Cubic Feet, White... i was planning on building a bar in the basement any way so ill have to build a bit more framework is all... my...

Reviving an old thread... I was curious if dkennedy or anyone else has tried his suggestion of taking the door off a mini fridge or freezer to act as the cooler for a larger area to place the kegs... I'm in the same boat as the OP in that kegerators in my area are scarce and tend towards the...

Anthonie, how much of your grain mix do you have laying around and how much of your light dme? What options do you have for hops that need used up?

I would shoot for a basic amber... just light on the hops... maybe shoot for about 20-30 ibu... if youve got a recipe calculator you can adjust batch size what youve got or do a 5gal batch and add to what youve got... carapils and carafoam arent going to impart much flavor or body the crystal...

I fixed it to read correctly... Thanks for the catch...

Got it... I swear I looked back on it on the putter and it said grain but sure as heck says hops... thanks for the catch... that ipa recipe mostly falls within the ipa category but the better brewers in the local club have said it would do better as an apa...

the 2-3lbs mark was for steeping grains, not hops... I vary the amount of hops based on the AA and the IBU I am shooting for... I use BrewR on my phone for the calculations, haven't tried beersmith out yet on the puter. I have liked starting with a light extract and adding my steeping...

I like using either golden lme or pilsen lme for my base... then i will steep 2-3 lbs of specialty grains depending what im shooting for... on your hop schedule the basic rules are the higher the alpha the higher the bittering... 60-30 min imparts bittering, 30-15 min will impart some bittering...

My wife and I prefer this cider still... i have not pasteurized... I bottle and keep it in the keezer at around 35... our first batch we sparkled half and left half still...

I did a similar deal with a club brew where they brewed the bog batch and I started with 1.5gal. I added a sample pack of pb2 and pb2choc at 5min left and then recommended amnt of pb2 into secondary with a few cocoa nibs... brewed early march and cocoa is still a bit strong but pb is a nice...