Recent content by totland

Red rock brew pup in Utah makes a great blonde ale called Golden Halo. Is there anyone familiar with this one and can help me come up with a clone recipe ? Thank you.

Thank you guys this helps a lot. I figured I should have asked the local brew shop to do a double crush on my grains. I will make adjustments and try again tomorrow..

Oh I forgot to add I did a online efficency test and it said I got 45%..weak..

So I did my first all grain last week. It was a one gallon BIAB. Grain bill was : 1.5 pounds 2 row 1 pound malted wheat 0.25 oz cascade hops. I used 2 gallons water because I read to expect 1 gallon boil off per hour which should leave me with one gallon for my fermenter. I ended up with...

Ok that makes sense. Thank you for the info !

I am in the process of cleaning out my moms basement and found a whole lot of food storage. There is buckets of whole wheat, cracked wheat, and oatmeal. I have this far been a extract brewer but am planing on venturing into all grain small batch brews. So my question is can I malt this...

Thanks

Sorry here is a random question. Due to space restrictions and keeping the spouse happy, I have been storing my wine in the garden shed for now. I have 4 different batches of wine in secondary right now... So my question is would this be a problem with temperature changes? Is that why my hard...

That is very helpfull!

Sweet. Thank you.

So I am about to start on my 5th batch of wine. In the past I have just used bare bones basic equipment. So no hydrometer. Well I finally got one and I'm a little confused. I understand how it works but I'm not sure how I decide what the starting gravity should be. The next batch I do will be a...