Recent content by sidewinder02132

You WIN!

~1 hr, West Roxbury

Hey there brewers, I hope this post finds you doing fabulous. I'm giving away a bunch of brew gear. The only catch - it's all or nothing! I want to be done a swiftly as possible. I'm in the Greater Boston Area, so hit me up if you're ready to start brewing, upgrade, or expand your kit...

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This is a fab recipe! I miss my RTA and don't wanna pay the $8 for the shipped beer to the East. You will not be disappointed. Do the blind test when you've let it condition for three weeks and then enjoy the experience.

I just did the mash of this recipe this weekend and the yeast are working away as I write this; however, because of the crazy cold up here, I've wrapped the bucket in multiple layers of wool blankets to keep them toasty enough to maintain brewing temperature. Crazy! On the flip side, when...

I gave the beer a full five months to condition and it was TREMENDOUS by the time I started drinking it in earnest. :tank: I've taken to putting aside canned pumpkin each year for the following year's batch. It works for me. :fro: One thing, when the pumpkin is in the boil, a wort chiller...

for this recipe. I started this over the weekend and it smells perfect! :ban: I used to drive up and down the coast from grad school and I'd stop there to get a brew. Lord I LOVE Hopland. Thanks for the great recipe. :mug:

--> Passedpawn: Thanks! Speling can be such a problem for mi. *lol* Ernest was da man! He demonstrates, to me, the definition of the power of will.

YEAH for da pumpkin heads! :tank: I just opened mine today, from a different recipe, and it's fabulous. Cheers and beers!

I regularly stir the mash and keep the temp near 152 by adding a little boiling water, poured across a stainless steel spoon, as needed to keep it there. I LOVE the idea of keeping some DME solution ready to go and may even use that to spike the brews. Nice touch. :mug:

:ban: and the wait was worth it! I brewed this back in late May b/c I knew it took FOREVER for those spices to blend appropriately. By October this is going to be a SMASHING beer. Here's the extract recipe FWIW: ---------Pumpkin Ale (extract)----------- 5 lbs amber DME 2 lbs Munich 0.5...

As an infantry man, I'm guessing that you've been through some EPIC stress on deployment. Now, this causes all sorts of interesting changes in brain chemistry that manifest themselves in odd ways. For example, traumatic stress often doesn't reach its emotional maximum until 12-18 months after...

Hey there, I had a crazy brew session making this recipe: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f73/dirty-monk-belgian-golden-strong-ale-80621/ I ended up using my 5 gallon MLT to try to make it and let's just say, the 10 gallon is on the way! My first problem is that my final gravity is 1.062 (missed...

Irr, you'll need both of those but, according to my local store, don't brew beer in them. If you're going to make some wine, get new primary and secondary and reserve these for the wine making. Only four weeks to bottle, eh? Nice. Thanks for the follow up, Duck. Seems hard to believe but...