Recent content by the_dam_man

as per above... Sampled some bottles the last couple weeks and it seems to have worked out GREAT! very strong berry color to it. I added some pectin at bottling and it helped alot in cleaning it up.

really could see this working with an old brake/clutch master and a hydrualic slave cylinder. could have a nice floor mounted foot pedle to step on to do it. a little trial and error and you could maybe even find a "safe limit" line pressure so you could put in a bleed off of some sort so you...

I ended up making per instructions and adding 3lbs of black berries an about 1/2lb of my backyard berries during the end of the 20 min boil. the boil leached out most of the color from the berries (I would assume most the sugars and juices) and tossed it all in the primary. Pitched the yeast...

my second batch was a can of mutons cerveza. HBS guy said same thing and be being "smarter" than him figured I would jsut follow the diretions for now. came out fine just a little weak (hence leaving out the gallon of water) poor carbonation and watered down tasting. BUT you can chug the...

be glab you have a LHBS. I have a 20 mile drive to the nearest cruise n booze that even sells HB stuff (just the basics....no bulk grain or extract) I would love to be able to run out some evening and pick up grains and malts and brew the same day.

Hello this is Nick (a Dam Engineer on the Ohio River) I started homebrewing back in Jan of 2007. I had a friend that stashed his homebrew kit at my place while his parents were moving him home from college. I let it sit here about 3 months and the temptation overtook me. Mostly I have been...

I figured I would give a shot at making some rasberry wheat ale. I was going to start with a Coopers Wheat Ale kit and use a combonation of fresh berries and sugar for it....Just that I don't know how much berries I should use to subsitute for each pound of sugar they call for. Will 1.5# of...