Recent content by waterse

Well, with hard drives failure is not a question but a given. They must fail eventually, it's only a matter of when. Backups are critical.

I quit cold turkey. Tried several times before but managed to make it stick this time. Not one in 22 months. I ran out of cigarettes on new years day in 2007 and just decided if I didn't buy any cigarettes I couldn't smoke. The psychology worked.

How about Morgan Crest Brewery? Then you can use your family's crest as the label.

I'd have to agree, I wouldn't neccessarily add any fruit at secondary. What you might do is taste it when the primary fermention is done. If it's drier then you would like you could halt the fermentaion with potassium sorbate and back sweeten with more apple juice to get the sweetness you want...

Could be mash temps too high creating a lot of unfermentables. Also, I am a begginer myself so maybe someone else could chime in but that seems to be a bit light on the 2 row for enzyme action in a partial mash.

Thanks, time to brew another one.

Sorry, yes, one 0 to few. As an example I brewed a pale ale that beersmith showed an expected value of 1.014 and I ended up with 1.020 on that one. 006 too high. The last few I have done have been partial mash so I was not steeping. And my PM version of BM's Octoberfast ale came out .003 high...

I am about to brew my 8th beer. So far my efforts have improved with each beer and I am thankfully making beer that me and my friends and family enjoy drinking. One issue I have had is that while I have been consistantly successful hitting my expected OG, my FG has been high with every batch...

I have had a similar thing happen. Two of my beers tasted great going in secondary and not so great at bottleing time. They both turned out fine. With that much alcohol there is not much of a chance of infection.

Nice job, very catchy.

Getting ready to try a cream stout with the following recipe: Partial mash 1.5lbs 2-row 1 lb Crystal 120 .5 lb chocolate malt .5 lb flaked oats .25 lbs cara-pils .25 lb roasted barley Extract 4 lb extra light LME 1 lb extra light DME 1 oz EKG (60) 1 oz Willamette (60) 1 oz...

You could add some potassium sorbate to half the batch to halt the fermentation then bottle or rack to secondary to clear if you want to then bottle. As for bottling as is and hoping for the correct carbonation, you could but it would be hard to know exactly where it's going to stop. Could be...

Just bottled this one. Getting anxious. Tastes great for a green beer.

Mine was a Brewers Best Belgian Wit kit. came out ok. Redid the recipe using the kit's ingredient list as a starting point and converted it to a partial mash. Came out much better the second time arround. Enjoying it right now.

I'm on the transplant list waiting for a donor now.