Recent content by ThinBlueLine

Three of the four cascade rhizomes were sprouting at day 6! The magnums came up around day 10

This is my bed setup... This is late afternoon so as you can see, it will receive partial shade during the hottest part of the day. I plan on waiting until the hop bines get some length on them to put the poles up

So I decided to try my hand at growing hops in Oklahoma. I couldn't find any articles from anyone who had grown in OK and with our crazy hot weather I'm not entirely sure what to expect. The area I placed the beds will give the hops sun until about 2pm and then the area will be partially...

After a 3 week primary and a 1 week crash cool in a secondary with gelatin, I kegged this tonight and it was crystal clear. The aroma was great and the hydro sample tasted awesome! I followed the recipe to a tee with 1 exception... I dry hopped the keg with 1 ounce of cascade in a nylon paint...

This is how it looked after 3 days in the keg. The flash made it look kind of red for some reason but it's definitely more of a golden color. This picture was really more to show the clarity. This was my first time using gelatin and it turned out pretty good

So I made this about a month back... I somehow overshot ended up with an OG of 1.062 and then ended up with and FG of 1.011 giving me an abv of almost 7%. Awesome. I've had that dude sitting on gas for about a week in my keezer and finally had a buddy and his wife over last night for the first...

Out of curiosity... What schedule did you use for your fermenters to get a 3 week turnaround? I was thinking maybe 10 days in primary and 7 days in secondary with the last 3 days of the 7 in the secondary being a crash cool with gelatin? That would leave 3 to 4 days to carb? This will be my...

Haha that's perfect... I have exactly 3 weeks and a day till the party

This is a shot of my first runnings during vorlauf... If this is any indication of what the final product looks like this beer is gonna be gorgeous It's not quite as dark as it looks in the picture but it's pretty close

Oh wow... Guess I overshot it a bit... Oops How soon do you think I could be drinking this? I keg and am having people over in a few weeks for the first OU game (boomer sooner) and would LOVE to have this on the lineup!

So i just finished brewing this and put it into a primary. I ended up with a little shy of 6 gallons (including 1/4 gallon yeast starter) and a final gravity of 1.058. This is the first amber ale that I have brewed (about my 10th all grain batch in all) so I was wondering... what should the...

So I just picked up the ingredients and plan on brewing this tomorrow. The only change I made was the yeast. I'm using Wyeast 1272 American Ale II. Ive never used it before and I like to experiment with new yeasts! Here's my question... How quick can I expect to go grain to glass? I'm...

Man this stuff has a crazy fermentation! My airlock just about blew off after a little less than 24 hours and Ive still got bubbles 10 days later! Looking forward to trying this bad boy

This is completely off topic and I apologize but I'm new to the forum and i'm trying to figure something out... can you post recipes w/the free membership or do you have to buy a membership to be able to do that?