Recent content by RSirois13

Brewed all grain version today. Panicked with my original preboil grav was only 1053 @ 6.5g. Completely forgot about the pound of sugar that I hadn't added yet, and added 3 lbs lite dme in a fit of overcompensating madness. (It was 94 and humid as hell. I am a lobster now.) In the end I...

I've long been bored by hops, overwhelmed by the hop bomb craze in America. It boggles my mind that the homebrew community has been so slow to explore gruit, given the tantalizingly vague references in the current literature, and the experimental, adventurous, mad scientist-nature of the...

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems. That looks horrible man. Definitely a cautionary tale for us all. Hope the healing goes quickly. On the plus side, with a story like this you could open a brewery with a bang.

I've worked with it before and not planning to again anytime soon. I have one Oaked Pear melomel with 12 lbs buckwheat. The pears and oak helped mask the "barnyard" notes with vanilla and spiciness, and since I'm aging it I feel it's improving. That said I find it to be a hit or miss honey...