Recent content by shilohhills

I've been making wine for a few years, and I always use a combination of used and newly bought wine bottles. I have been using #8 corks for the last few batches due the #9 seeming too large. The #8's are seeming too large also. For the last few batches the corks are extremely difficult to remove...

I hadn't considered that, but it may be an option. I was thinking more along the lines of putting in a secondary.

I have an orange tree that died down to the root stock many years ago. The tree grew back from the root stock, and is covered with huge thorns, and an abundance of fruit. It produces more fruit than any other citrus tree I have (of course). The fruit is similar to the size of a small grapefruit...

ABV would be nice, but making a good beer is far more important to me. At least at this early stage of my brewing life. I’ll work on efficiency and ABV next go round.

Thanks for the info. When I tasted the wort as it went in the fermenter, it was quite bitter. I may do the sugar add.

This being my first big beer, I think I’ll let it fly as is with no additional sweetener. I’ll definitely let you know how it turns out as long as I haven’t succomed to lack of toilet paper by then.

I actually am trying Beersmith on the advice of a friend. After looking at Brewers Friend, I may go with the free one. Two questions before I wear out my welcome: 1) Can you add sugar (dextrose) to the wort after a few days of fermentation? 2) Is there a way to know what the new potential ABV...

All excellent advice. Thanks. Being that I am a relative new brewer I won't bore you with my lack of knowledge of efficiency. With that being said, this site has provided me with more useful info than anything else, and I am grateful. I will get there eventually, but for me it will be a slow...

Ok, I brewed this following the original recipe as closely as possible. I used beersmith to give me actual volumes and steps. Everything went swimmingly, and my volumes were right on. My OG was 1.080, which threw me. I used half bottled purified drinking water, and half water from my well, which...

Ok, I brewed this in time for Christmas and I must say it turned out awesome. This is my first time brewing an IPA and this is definitely a keeper. Most of my friends and family were very impressed.

Is this a No Sparge brew?