Recent content by Taper123

I took a space heater and plugged it in by my "fermenting chamber" to warm things up a bit recently. But even at 52 degrees, the apfelwien was still bubblin. The ales were sound asleep though...

I trade beer with the only other brewer I know in the Houston area. Both of us spend more time lately with our chain saws than our brew pots. Funny... we have two electrical breakers on at our house right now. One supplies the Travel Trailer we are living in at the moment, the other...

Will be a couple more days before the insurance adjustor shows up. First level gave a check and told me to get a hotel room. We have dogs and a bird, so found a travel trailer instead. Have roof tarped and waiting see the final damage report. Contractor estimates are all twice what I...

My Apfelwien and American Amber batches were properly aged and bottle conditioned just in time for Hurrican Ike. Had a tree pretty much cut our house in half, and the home brews came in handy... purely for medicinal purposes ya know. That was really scary, had one tree come through and...

All an Ale Pail is... is a food grade bucket. One that had pickles in it previously might be gross... but any clean, un-scratched bucket of that grade would work. THen just get an airlock, drill a hole in the lid and put in a rubber grommet... and you'd have an ale pail. Or support...

Hmmm.... I had to go read up on plastic recycling codes on the bottles. At the bottom of the message is a list of them. I'm going to be camping at the beach for a week around Thanksgiving. Same as the original post, glass there could get a person in trouble. Either a Party Pig or...

Cool chart on yeast speeds... I'm still bubbling along. Mines in a controlled environment at 62 degrees.

I did that on my first batch of beer... rushed it since I thought something was going wrong since I saw little white clumps forming that sorta looked like little bubble islands when it was in the glass secondary... For that matter I rushed it into the secondary since the airlock had stopped...

Did an American Amber thursday, and doing a Belgian Dubbel sunday. I hate it when a fermenting bucket is empty...

I have an old freezer I use with a thermal controller to brew my beer in. My wife just laughed today when I took a riciprocating saw and cut the shelves out of the door so I could fit three fermenting buckets in it.... Make sure you make her something she likes, or at least make the attempt...

13 days after starting my first batch of Apfelwien... it's still making the airlock bubble. Maybe it's cause I'm keeping it at 62 degrees... but from what I've read it take a month or so if not more til it's ready to bottle.

Added a strisselspalt to a Carta Blanca.... figured it's worth a try.

When my Apfelwein is ready... I might start to drink less beer for a little bit :mug:

first batch bubbling away for me... 7198 + 5 = 7203

Made the 5g batch today and have it sitting with some ale at 68 degrees. Once I bottle the ale, is this a good temp or should I set it lower/higher? What's the desired range for Apfelwien???