Recent content by sionide21

Just finished making this last month. It was really amazing. I can't believe how good it was for so little effort/money. Thanks for the recipe!

What do you mean? Do you get a sweeter result by racking earlier?

Wow, that's sexy. How much did those kegs cost? I have been looking around on craigslist and ebay but they all seem higher than just paying the deposit on one from the store. Is there somewhere good I'm not checking?

How do you recirculate? Is part below a false bottom pumping to the top or can the pump handle grain or what?

What kind of system is that? My interest has been piqued.

Ok, that's good to know. Does anyone here use direct heat?

Hello, I learned all grain brewing from a friend of mine who always mashed over direct heat (as in in a pot rather than a cooler). That is the method I have always used as well and it has always worked just fine. It also makes multiple rests trivial. When I started reading all the brewing...

Ok, so should I let it sit flat for those two weeks or should I force-carbonate it and then leave it in the keg for two weeks?

So if I am kegging it, should I just take two weeks off the Northern Brewer time?

The recipes I buy form northern brewer list a "ready in" time (for example 5 weeks). What does this time mean? Is that ready to drink, ready to bottle, what? I thought that primary was two weeks , secondary was at least two weeks, and bottle aging was at least three weeks. This doesn;t seem...

Ok, cool. What does lactose add to the beer?

I made the northern brewer Breakfast Stout kit a few days ago. One of the ingredients was a pound of lactose which I added at boil time. I then noticed it was listed in the fermentables section of the recipe. Was I supposed to add that before my rests?

I started brewing about a year ago. I noticed today that I had found many of the answers to my brewing related google searches here so I decided to join. I look forward to learning from the community. --Ben