Recent content by Stef1966

Highest ABV i ever got from my beers was 6.8% Not that high but after 3 or 4 i could feel the difference between that and my usual beers which usually average around 4.8 Was a red ale, brewed it last winter and i used to call it my "snow blower beer" :tank: Might brew something along those...

I've been told that the reason i never had an infected batch of beer is because i'm way up North in Canada... i'm beginning to think it's making sense... cause i'm probably not even half as anal about sterilization as most of you guys are. Just using bleach based soap on my kit and thats about...

Thats a good thing, I do enjoy the calm and open spaces of my country, plus it's not overcrowded and filled with a huge crime rate and economic disaster like some other countries i wont mention here...

I have yet to try a beer i couldn't drink at all, but some stuff i tasted i wouldnt drink all evening long in a party. I enjoy most styles but i do have to agree with you, for me too much hops is like a sauce with too much pepper, pepper is a nice addition in a meal but too much of it and you...

Indeed... I guess i just have been pretty lucky so far, I only use a bleach based soap to clean/sanitize my stuff and i will cross my fingers but after a bit more than 2 years of brewing, never had the misfortune of catching an infection in any batch of beer i brewed.

Just move up to Canada... too cold up here for any bacterias to survive...

I got airlocks on my secondary glass carboys, but i just don't use a secondary anymore so i don't get to see them bubbles... ...crap, i guess i'll just burn in Hell then...:mug:

Who needs a airlock and a blow off tube? https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/primary-bucket-quebec-style-100428/

I wouldn't mind it at all. Getting drunk with flavor as a bonus? Count me in! :mug: I say some people were simply born without the right palate for beer, they will just never get it. Some say beer is an acquired taste, i have to disagree, had my first sip of beer when i was about 12 and i...

As already mentioned, great info in this thread. Thanks a lot for the recipe! :mug:

If im getting invited over dinner and the owners offer me a coors light as it's all they have, i certainly will drink it without a fuss. But if given choices, i would pick something else for sure, here in Quebec we get unibroue products and some are usually cheaper then Bud or Coors or all...

Sithdad it will clear out in the bottles anyways, so why waste extra time and energy?

That's my general opinion about most people I meet, most people go trough their lives like freaking robots that wouldn't dare to go on un-ventured roads like trying a new kind or style of beer... Most people are just that... fraidy cowards that do exactly like they always were told to do and...

happened to me twice for two different batches, no odd tastes, the beer was as good as usual, i drank the whole batches that were like that. Never could figure out what it was, nothing was done differently during the brewing/bottling process.

Im probably one of the laziest around, i only primary for two weeks sharp and off in the bottles it goes. And i don't do any of what you mentioned you don't do either. I do however collect yeast, i take 3 empty beer bottles, wash em, fill them about a half from a yeast cake, cap em and i put...