Recent content by wanagohueco

Sounds good... thats what I figured... can't wait until this one has been bottled and aged for a while.

So I was brewing an Imperial Stout a couple weekends ago and added twice as much Maltodextrin as the recipe called for by accident. It called for 4 oz. and I used 8 oz. I checked around and it looked like this was not an excessive amount for a 5 gallon batch anyway. Anybody have any comments...

Awesome... thanks for the info. If only Charlie had written a wine making book I could just "relax and have a homebrew"!

So now that the yeast has sat overnight and is dissolved into the wine... should I shake the carboy to oxygenate the juice or no? There's also a large separation between the grape juice on top and ~ 1/4 gallon of water that was mixed with something (can't remember) during the first step...

Hey Guys, So I tried my hand at brewing wine last night. I didn't read up on the techniques involved and only followed the directions in the kit I bought at the LHBS. Anyway it included a packet of dry yeast and the directions said not to stir the wine after pouring the yeast in. Is this...

You definitely need to reduce the amount of hops since you'll get better utilization. I assume that you are using specialty grains with the extract... in which case you should steep the grains in 1.5 gallons of water... remove them... then add that to the main brew kettle for the full 5 gal...

Yeah a gallon or two works. I think the important thing is to allow the water you are steeping your grains in to drop to a pH of 5 to 5.5... that way you don't extract tannins from the grains making the beer astringent.

You can find the extra bottle wheels at morebeer.com. Not sure about the autosiphon clip.

Yeah I agree... in fact I just bottled my second batch and I am already tired of cleaning bottles!

Hehe... yeah I was waiting for that one :D

Sweet... thanks for all the info. guys... I'll probably play around with both pouring boiling water over them or using a different sanitizer and see what happens.

Interesting... do you know what the reason is for not getting them wet?

My caps were the O2 absorbing caps from NB. I was surprised at just how fast rust starts to appear (within a few minutes)! Do you have any suggestions on other sources for O2 absorbing caps? Which caps do you use that don't rust?

So I'm having an issue with rusty bottle caps during bottling. The last brew I bottle, I boiled the caps for a few minutes to sanitize them; then let them sit in the water and pulled them out as I needed them. This time I let them soak in One Step in a bowl until I needed them. Both times the...