Recent content by Still_dreamin

i realize this is an old post, but on the off chance anyone comes by im ramping up to try a thyme-raspberry metheglin. i read above that 1/4oz of fresh & bruised thyme is recommended for 5 gallons. my question is, how long do you soak them for? ie. how long before you rack them out? i suppose...

Brewed this last week and came away with surprisingly low gravity... which i recall reading other brewers experienced with this one? OG was temperature corrected to just 1.065, so i bumped it up with roughly a pound of buckwheat honey which brought it to 1.074. respectable for an RIS, but...

How long did you let your "second mash"/"super sparge" sit? Before draining I mean.

So my curiosity has been sparked at the notion of partiglying this recipe. I've never done it, and have a couple questions from what I've read. I see a lot of people are adding additional grains for their partigyles. Does this imply a second mash? From my understanding and what I've read, the...

Ok. So your recommendation is to mash the full 7.75G volume, and then sparge whatever is needed to make up a ~8G preboil volume. That's how I usually brew but with a beer this big I was looking for confirmation from someone who had brewed it already. Thanks for your feedback! Much appreciated!

I'm thinking about brewing this but am unsure on mash/sparge volumes. I saw in an early post (page 6) the author recommended 1.5 quarts per pound of grain? That's in line with how i usually brew, but in this case, with a 20.75lbs grain bill that's looking like ~31 quarts or ~7.75 gallons...

How long do you keep the Granny Smiths in your secondary?

Thanks for the great advice everyone! Tootal - that definitely sounds like a good way to go. Dracus - any chance you'd post this great recipe of yours??

Hmmm. Ya. Thanks for your thoughts. I suppose the best way forward is to brew an OR clone, add bourbon soaked oak to the secondary, hope for the best and tweak it from there...??

Ya i'm a bit foggy on that myself. I've also read about the mechanized, standardized testing but then have also come across this little nugget on the wikipedia page for beer measurement under the bitterness section... "The bittering effect is less noticeable in beers with a high quantity of...

So i had my first Old Rasputin Anniversary XV this past weekend and loved it. I'm thinking about replicating it at home and have seen several Old Rasputin clones, but none specifically mimicking the Old Rasputin XV Anniversary. The easiest solution would seem to be to brew up an OR clone, and...