Recent content by spk

LHBS has a mini-competition to do a Belgian IPA, so I picked up a small supply (60% pilsner, 36% pale 4% aromatic, along with a f***ton of hops, relatively speaking, and WY 3522) yesterday to make it today. It's currently chilling in the sink, to get to pitching temperature. It's Saaz and...

I bought the Malbec kit from them on Amazon in March. As a beer brewer, I already had an ale pale and glass carboy (and a Better Bottle) that I wasn't using at the time. I followed the directions on making it, let it ferment a bit longer in primary than their directions recommended, but then...

1 quart starter this morning for an expired vial of WLP 800; if it lives, then a little 2-gallon all-wheat lager experiment Saturday or Sunday (~3lbs white wheat malt, 1/2oz domestic Hallertau ~4% alpha, BIAB for about 80% efficiency ... will work out the details later). With spring finally...