Recent content by TravisT

^this, is what I do with my brett beers.

You let ke know if you need help emptying any of those bottles :)

I talk a little about how i built it on this video, i have a mig welder and a place to buy cheap used steel. http://youtu.be/y4Zchd-XUNo heres another video after the barrel is filled... i kinda show how the barrel fits on the stand. http://youtu.be/CX4qPYE7vk0

Looks like I'm not moving out of this house for a while. I added 5gl of a 6month old beer the was fermented with ecy20 bug blend. Its been slowly chugging away.

Yeah its a 2012 Girard Cabernet Sauvignon. At least that was the last batch of wine that was in it. I'm not a wine drinker so I don't know if that is a good wine or not.

I bought the barrel today and will fill it up tomorrow.

I've used ecy01 and split it in two 6.5gl carboys, and the fermentation was not bad at all. 2-3. inches of headspace was all I needed. Two weeks later I put that 10gl in with 40gallons of wort in a 55gl barrel and again the krousen was not bad at all.

So on April 28 I began my 60 gl brew day. It took 2 days doing double brew days. my preboil gravity was at 13gl @1.061 which was the max volume i could start my boil at. At the end of the boil i would add about 3-4 gallons of boiling water to "top off" my keggle to as close to 15 gallons as i...

Rosalare has everything you need to make a tasty sour. I've had a couple of sour stouts and was never impressed, the roast and sour clashed. my vote is to brew up another pale beer and do a full 5gl of sour beer. Just my 2 cents.

thanks for the replies, I think that I'm not going to do primary in the barrel. I have enough carboys to easily ferment 40 gallons. thats not counting the 10 gallons that I was going to inoculate the barrel with. that will only leave me 10 gallons short of the 59 mark. i could buy a couple...

+1 when I first started I had a bunch of bad batches that tasted like vinegar and dog crap, i solved the problem by tossing out everything that was plastic that had contact with the beer. buy a new fermenting bucket and racking cane/hoses for sure. good luck. look up you closest home...

So I am going to brew a lambic/american wild ale. That being said i'm going to fill a 59gl wine barrel by myself. I plan on doing two double brew day of 11gl batches of about 1.072 wort. So i will end up with 44gallons of 1.072 wort. I will then delude the wort with about 12 gallons of water...

goozie looks good, I would add less lemon so you keep your PH down.. also be careful of hot side aeration!

You did a great job on the interview and documenting the the whole project. Cheers Dan. Looking forward to your future limbic. Let me know the recipe and ill brew the same thing and do a bottle share in 18months. I have a bottle of ecy20 in my fridge.

My buddies say "I hope your beer isn't a disappointment like your life has been" my beer is good, but my life..........