Recent content by salmonslayer

I do a habenero apricot wheat in the summer that's great. I devane and seed my peppers the cut into thin strips and soak in vodka for a few weeks. Then just add befor bottling or kegging.

Should be a perfect weekend for brewing. Nothing better than making beer, drinking beer and watching college football. Making a double batch of my house ESB and then kegging up an alder smoked tomato red ale, a hard cider for the holidays to come and on sunday bottling a bourbon barrel aged...

Yeah basically what I do is take my hop bag and sanitize a handful or two of marbles ( just enough to sink the bag with hops ) then load the bag with the marbles and then the hops. Then I just sink my bag of hops and carb up like normal. I find that by sinking them to the bottom every time you...

Another idea you may want to kick around is looking into cold steeping your carafa. This allows you to pull out some good roastiness and lots of color without getting any of that astringent flavor. I do this with my CDA's with great results. I start the steeping the day before I'm going to brew...