Recent content by sdixon

Thanks Bsquared... it's easy to overlook the obvious when it comes to information about yeast... the yeast companies themselves :o

Chad - Thanks for all the great info... I have been trying to find information for making my first 100% Brett beer and your site and threads have been the most useful. So I'm reading this thread after already making my wort (5 Kg Pilsner Malt, 0.5 Kg Unmalted Wheat) and I have a package of...

Chad - Thanks for all the great info... I have been trying to find information for making my first 100% Brett beer and your site and threads have been the most useul. So I'm reading this thread after already making my wort (5 Kg Pilsner Malt, 0.5 Kg Unmalted Wheat) and I have a package of...

I just bottled a small batch of mead in 14 - 450ml Grolsch beer bottles. They have great swingtop caps that can be re-used.

I had a 3gal batch of mead that I had forgotten about (sitting out of site and out of mind) in the primary that I took a notice of recently. It had a FG of 0.090 and was obviously very dry. I wasn't crazy about the taste, yeasty/estery, likely from sitting on the lees for about 1 year. So I...

I made a batch of cranberry wine from local berries here in New Brunswick, Canada. Freezing the berries helps to release the sugars after they thaw. I tried to crush by hand but that didn't do a great job. Because I didn't want to add much sugar, I ended up with a light wine... but it was tasty...

This is m y first post :-) I just started my first batch after not brewing for several years (I got into brewing fruit wines from scratch) and the dry yeast had expired 7 months ago (best before date). When I opened the can, it looked very strange... like trub (hops, grains etc) ... very...