Recent content by tcbucher

Hello, Due to my apartment size/implausibility of doing full grain at school, would it be feasible to make an english IPA only steeping a pound of something like biscuit malt? I would do the brew in a bag method for this, then finish the rest of the recipe doing a steeping of caramalt, and...

Because I'm interested to see if anyone can identify whats going on and/or if it has happened to someone else before. Thread really isnt about whether or not my beer is infected, just what the heck that is in the carboy. i figure a slightly different crowd may run in this forum that could...

What do I have going on here? Its chunky, Iceberg-like, yeast colored with little bits of yellow. I'm stumped. FG didn't change (this is in secondary), tasted AMAZING :) Unfortunately, i can't rack/bottle til after work tomorrow :( Praying to the beer gods to rescue this one...

This may sound completely ignorant, but... My airlock had a lot of vodka in it...could it be enough to pressurize residual co2 coming off enough to pressurize the container and send the trub/yeast/what not jettisoning to the top? I ask because i bumped one of the clumps with my thief, and the...

Update time....at this point with the mass of nasty gunk resting peacefully in my carboy, my gravity has held stable at 1.019 and it tastes AMAZING. The 7oz of hops in this mother taste delicious. Good sign for now, lets hope it makes it another week when i plan to bottle.....

Yeah, I always PBW, shake, rinse, star-san, and invert my BBs after their use. I re-star-san'd it before use...nothing it in. When i took the gravity reading before racking it tasted fine, good actually. I got ahold of some citra hops for this one. 3 oz. :/

Would it be, in your opinion, a good idea to take a gravity sample, crash, and bottle ASAP at this point?

They have depth, some have chunks below the surface. Kind of like icebergs. I'm still pretty new at this but it was a serious WTF moment when I saw those.

This would be wonderful news, assuming its my Denny's Favorite 50...

In secondary once Calculated terminal Gravity was reached?

I brewed an APA Denny's Favorite 50 Racked to secondary Added Hop bag (sanitized) 5 Days later, I have this. Have not taken a gravity reading :( Doesn't smell too bad out of the airlock. (I have a better bottle, so light pressure pushed air from the bottle) (IMGUR album)...

Sorry, forgot to mention im extract brewing.

EDIT: Im brewing with DME :) Im planning on brewing an IPA. I wanted to do a short boil (20 minutes). I have 3 oz citra, 2 oz Amarillo, and 2 oz Cascade. I was going to essentially continuously hop 6 oz during the boil for the 20 minutes- first citra, then amarillo, then cascade, and use...

Hello, I was going to brew something similar to the 15 minute american ale featured on Brewing Basics. I was going to up the Simcoe hops to 3oz though. http://www.basicbrewing.com/index.php?page=may-26-2011-15-minute-american-ale The recipe I'm going to use is 1 lb 60L Crystal Malt...

Woot!