Recent content by Schoenbrau

That sounds awesome, thanks for sharing!!

Hey, I see this thread is 3 years old, any luck?

:-( bummer. Thanks for the reply!

Awesome, looking forward to it!

I'd have to crack another open and really think about a better way to describe it but my memory says it was really bitter with a weird earthiness. It makes me think of a kind of tea you'd drink for health benefits and definitely not the taste. There was a cherry note to it with a little...

Wow, shocked nobody has replied in over 5 years. I myself have been considering making this beer, anyone brewed it? If so, what'd you think?

I brewed this back in 2009 but i used an immersion blender to puree the pumpkin in the brew pot which worked great. Lots of great flavors in the beer however I was a dope and didn't rack it to a secondary fermenter. I used a bottling bucket with spigot as my primary so on bottling day, a LOT...

I brewed last spring with sour pie cherries acquired from a butcher shop. The beer came out with an overpowering hoppiness bordering on a gross medicine-like taste. I don't think I did anything wrong during the brew or afterwards, I've also been brewing for 8 years and actually am a...

Thanks very much!!

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Cool, let me know how it works! :)

I normally use a wort chiller in my brew pot before transferring to my plastic fermenter based on my *assumption* that hot liquid + plastic bucket = possibly bad combination. To help speed up the cooling process, I also fill a sink with cold water and ice in combination with using the wort...

Hey everyone, Last fall I bought all the grain, LME, and hops for a Sour Cherry Ale. I needed a huge amount of cherries and cleaned out my local store's entire supply with the intent of returning later to get the rest I needed. Once they restocked, the price of cherries went through the...