Recent content by waxhaw-new-brew

this post, and the links included, is going to bring the monster out of me. my wife already banned the thought of hanging salami from the ceiling fan....buying pork belly this week. thanks revvy. where to get the pink salt....?

5 gallon double IPA 5 gallon Russian Imperial Stout 5 gallon Ginger Beer 5 gallon Blueberry Mead/Melomel 5 gallon Bacon Porter (today) 7,176+25=7,201

nevermind...I have got to get used to how to search the forums for specific keywords!

so I am working on my second ginger "beer" consisting of 2lbs of ginger, 13 cups of white cane sugar, 4 cups of brown sugar, vanilla beans, allspice and cinnamon sticks. I used a Scottish ale yeast and lavlin d47 both because I thought it wasn't fermenting at first, then realized my lid had a...

you ,sir, are nuts. and I love it. that is an amazing thread. I go to an Asian market all the time and see the pork belly, but what to do with it? I've contemplated the whole meat processing thing too, being a deer and (soon to be) feral pig hunter in NC (if only I had taken an interest in deer...

yeah, I just saw them after I posted. sorry.

I was flipping through one of my brew books today and ran across the "goat's scrotum ale", which looks to be a basic porter style beer with whatever flavor you want to add....this was right after breakfast and I remembered I have a bacon flavored syrup from world market place in the...

whatever beer I can get my hands on without touching the last HB xmas ale I've been saving for when my mom comes to visit from WI. :D Longhammer IPA and Newcastle today

thanks guys. that makes good sense to me. I try to be as "violent" as possible without making a big mess (to make the wife mad or not, that IS the question) while topping off but the wort is awfully thick...it was confusing because all the kits I've done seem to be higher in abv than what they...

Hey all, looking for some input please? I'm still relatively new to brewing and have been sticking to dry malt extract kits from brewer's best to get the swing and process down before I branch out and get imaginative...Today I did the HG Russian Imperial Stout kit, and the target SG was supposed...

i made moonshae's recipe, but i used an ale yeaset as it's all i had. it was great, though i think the ale yeast kind of took the sweet out of it and it took forever to ferment. will be making again with the proper yeast in a week or so. and this time i will take gravity readings, i'm curious...

Thanks! I am going to wait until Sat to make it- it's a potato wine recipe I found on this forum- because it dawned on me we are making butucol tonight and the potatoes get boiled WITH the kale and sausage...which might lend some off flavors :D. Besides, gives the brew store a chance to get the...

i have never made wine before, and i found a recipe that i would like to try. i want to make a 1 gallon batch as to lessen the blow if it doesn't turn out, but i only have 5 gallon carboys and fermenting buckets. will the extra air/head space cause the wine to fail miserably or should i just...

I am wanting to try to start this tomorrow night as we are planning a meal with mashed potatoes, but i am wondering if this recipe is for 1 gallon? I only have 5 gallon carboys/fermenters, so if i try to do a 1 gallon recipe in a 5 gal carboy will it fail miserably because of too much headspace?

I had this happen to me with my IPA a couple of weeks ago, with the airlock not the lid- beer is hard to clean up! my 8 month pregnant wife called me at work and asked if I had taken my airlock out and why is there beer dripping off the ceiling of the soon to be nursery... luckily she's pretty...