Recent content by tmbrewer

Its a bit of a stretch to say "fully exposed" as it was in a glass carboy with stopper & airlock (though dry much of the time) in an undisturbed, cool but controlled part of the house. This wasn't a Belgian open fermentation experiment :> I did drink a bottle of it the other night and could...

You guys are killing me! ha You know it took me 8.5 years to bottle it - it'll probably take me another month to down a bottle of it :> Seriously, though, I guess I'll finally try more than a "sip" this evening! Thanks for the info with respect to identifying heavily oxidized beer -- I will...

I have to admit I didn't want to tinker with it so I bottled it flat.. it'll pass as wine more than beer at this point anyway ha.

Well I tasted it and it's fine.. I'm not sensing any off flavors though I've never had heavily oxidized beer before so I'm not sure what I'm looking for.. but I expect it'd be clearly objectionable. The FG was 1.030 so rough computation puts it at ~9.5% ABV. I went ahead and bottled it...

Hello All- My brother & I made a barleywine back in May of 2008. You know where this is going. I racked it to a secondary a month after brewing and.. well... there it sat! Until December of 2016? Crazy, yes.. but its been in the secondary fermenter for about 8.5 YEARS. The airlock...

I should mention that another thing I learned is that its actually quite difficult to make a great survey. In retrospect, I agree that in places the survey questions could have been re-worded for that quick read & answer tempo. That said, I get the gist of what people are saying and can...

All in all, I had a total of 41 respondents. Thanks for your support! I was hoping for at least 20. Of the 41, many of you completed the entire survey. Understandably, a few dropped out during the process, and that's ok. I'm aware I had a few errors in the survey early on and I thank the...

Hey folks- I just wanted to thank the 30+ people that participated in my survey. I'm going to tally up the results this weekend and post the results. If anyone is still interested in participating, I'll probably close the survey around Saturday afternoon. Sincerely- Todd

MaddBaggins- I've almost always brewed with family and/or friends participating, so I sort of agree with you on the automation. It's usually a social event here. At the same time, there are certain parts of it that I wish I could just "gloss over". For quality and consistency, I might like...

Thanks for your participation, folks. I already have ~20 completed surveys and am already seeing trends. I am learning something that reflects on my own brew process as I see the results. I will certainly share at the end and comment about my own surprises. A few of you noted some mistakes...

Hello fellow homebrewers! I’m in the final phase of a Master's Systems Engineering program at Johns Hopkins University. As a final step in the program, students are challenged to mature a complex "product" concept through application of the systems engineering method. Principally this means...