Recent content by sixstringedd

You should leave the lid off during the boil. While boiling, certain compounds are evaporating out of the wort. If you leave the lid on they will condensate on the lid and drip back into the wort. This is supposed to give your beer a sulfur-like off taste. If you can't get the wort hot enough...

So, I've been brewing for about a year now, but I'm the only person I know who brews beer. My fear is that because I don't get to experience other people's brewing methods, except for what I see on youtube or read on forums like these, I'm not going to be able to progress well in my brewing...

Just started cracking open the first few of these beers. They could still use a lot of time to balance and what not, but they don't seem to have suffered much from a short boil time. The two pounds of roasted barley was too much though, it really kicks you in the teeth.

I was just in Germany this summer. If you find yourself in Munich, check out Andechs Monastery. You can take the Munich S-bahn to a little town outside of Munich, and from there it is about a 40 minute hike up to the monastery where they brew their own beer. Probably the best beer I had during...

So yesterday I did my first all grain batch. I did it the simple brew-in-a-bag method. As well as being my first all grain, it was also my first time to use a propane kit to boil rather than using my electric stove, and I bought two disposable propane cylinders to burn with instead of one of the...

Hi, I'm a relatively new brewer; I've only made five batches so far. Right now, I'm working on a chocolate stout. The homebrew store I went to only had cocoa shells (is this the same thing as cocoa nibs?). Anyway, I was planning on putting them in during secondary fermentation, so my question...