Recent content by themurph

The water will probably ruin the beer if nothing else does. When I visit Vegas I have to brew coffee with bottled water or it is undrinkable.

This is the by far the most enlightened post on this very interesting thread!

I'm judging the fermentation temperature by the highest reading I saw on the fermometer stuck on my carboy. It possibly could have been higher at some time that I didn't check but 80deg seems unlikely. What is a reasonable conditioning time for a high ABV beer?

After having several successful batches I attempted the Brown Ale recipe from 'Extreme Brewing'. O.G. 1.073 and gravity at 1.015, and still bumping about once every minute or so through the blowoff tube, when I racked to secondary after two weeks in primary. I tasted the sample and found the...