Recent content by Slounsberry

Maybe that was sarcasm regarding his spelling, but otherwise I think you misread his comment.... Either way, I do applaud your spirit of experimenting, but I also agree there’s something to be said for knowing the basics before experimenting. It sounds like you’re very new to this so it...

Curious if you have an update on this? I’ve got a wild yeast fermentation going too, but I had an old 1 gallon german blonde kit from NB that I used. I’d like to hear how this turns out because I’ll probably want to make a few more batches trying different temps and I’m hoping to isolate a few...

Didn't do anything to the water aside from cut tap water ~1/2 with distilled. Just got a pH meter a few days ago so I've never done any messing with pH either. What effect would chlorine/chloramine differences have? I know mineral content can change taste, etc. but since I don't know the...

Hi all, started all-grain brewing about a year ago and the first beer I made that I was really happy with was a SMASH Czech Pils (no discernible off-flavors, to my palate at least, and my father-in-law who gave me the recipe idea from his home brewing days liked it too, success!) Got around to...

Hi Ed, no offense taken! Still fairly new to this and probably doing all kinds of dumb stuff unkowningly. I used those sugar tabs, the ones that look like cough drops, for this batch. And I put the bottles in a downstairs closet. Our house is held at 65-70ish this time of year, maybe a couple...

New all-grain brewer here, and been doing some experimenting, perhaps too early in my 'career'! Back in November or so I made a brown ale, fermented fine in primary* and then I cold-crashed, bottled most of it and transferred 1 Gallon into secondary over a crushed cinnamon stick and the ~1oz...

Thanks! I did hang onto the first batch for quite a while, I think I tasted it up to 3 or 4 weeks, and there's one bottle left in the fridge just in case but it didn't seem to be mellowing at all. Oh well. I get that they need O2 and then that they displace it with C02 but my concern is that...

So I've been doing all grain for a few months now, third batch into the fermenter last night, and I have a couple questions I haven't been able to find an answer to yet. For starters, I should say that I've been making batches of about 3 gallons and bought a 6.5 gallon big mouth bubbler for...