Recent content by TheHopRanger

I'm going to make an Imperial Stout with an ABV somewhere around 12-14% I'm thinking about using Wyeast 1028 London Ale, 1728 Scottish Ale or maybe 1084 Irish Ale. Which one should I use????

Cool I guess the next step is to decide what style you would like to make. What is your favorite commerical or craft brew? Making a similar beer might be a good start.

One unfortunate thing for me right now though is I have probably 10 cases of beer bottled right now but nothing is ready to drink yet :(

What styles of beer do you like? Are you going to start with an extract batch? Partial mash?

Welcome home brewing is definitely addictive:) I've already made probably 20-30 batches and I haven't even been brewing a year yet!!!!!!!

Welcome I concur with lumpher you definitely joined the right 1. What were you thinking of making?

I forgot to mention my recipe for the flanders brown calls for oak chips in the secondary ala dry hopping so I decided to soak the chips in Famous Grouse 18yr. I'll let you know how that works out.

Sweet!! I'll let you know when the chickens start producing like they should. I think I might feel different about cascade if they used less or in conjuction with another hop.

I'm not a huge fan of cascade my self but you can't hardly throw a dead cat without hitting an American beer that uses them. Once the chickens go into full egg production maybe we can work something out for some of the other hops.

The dog is fine he ate them months ago. If your thinking of giving them away? Selling some? Cascade would definitely be a great choice. A low yield isn't a bad thing since a couple pounds of hops is a ton of cones. As you said earlier unless you plan on brewing on a ginormous scale...

Now remember when you move them your yield isn't going to be that much. Before the dog decided to eat at the hop buffet I had Glacier, Magnum, Centennial and Cascade. Next year when Trevor gets rhizomes back I'm going to try again. I really want Glacier, Centennial, Hersbrucker and Galena...

I would go with a pyramid style trellis. You could potentially get a yield of 18-30ish pounds of wet hops per bine. From what I've read a 5 gallon bucket full of hop cones is about 3-5lbs of wet hops. My Dubbel is bubbling away and smells fantastic!! And the ESB is going to be hands down...

I've tried to make a beer a week for the last couple of months. The only bummer is I have a bunch of beer bottled but not much of it is ready to drink.

I actually try to keep a honey lager onhand it is extremely easy to make and really good too. I use 2.5 lbs of honey, 3 lbs of light dme and a pound of crystal 40. I try to use a lower alpha hop so the flavor of the honey comes through. Just made a dubbel and bottled the toasted apricot...

Your supposed to use 1 pound of fruit for every gallon of water but I wanted the cherry flavor to be subtle. How's the IPA doin?