Recent content by WessB

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As soon as I free up my primary I'll place my order. I did find a Pete's clone on midwestsupplies.com But I think I'm gonna order this one from brewmaster. Thanks for the reply. Wess

I just used the calculator and lowered the 60 min to .5 oz, changed the next to 1oz at 5 mins, flameout is still .75 with .5 dry hop....this configuration yields a IBU of 20.6 Wess

Thanks so much...I checked their website a little while back and it would only give a breief description of the flavors, certainly not the details you just posted and it also said something about a new website in the making...I can lower the IBU by decreasing the hop amounts or times but I'm...

Thanks for the bump "Deepsouth" Yooper, I appreciate your comments, I've got another week till my primary is freed up, I think I will order it as shown..Thanks Wess

I am new to homebrewing with only 3 kits brewed so far. Am also new to drinking ales and lagers and other types of craft beers. I guess I'm the tyipcal BMC burnout, totally got burned out on the typical american beers and quit drinking beer for a while. With my new found interest in hombrewing I...

Hello from around the corner..I'm in College Park, and am to new to homebrew to be of much if any help to ya. Wess

Hello from College Park..I'm a newbie with his 3rd batch in the fermentor as I type. Wess

Thanks for the reply...I'll give it 2 weeks and see where it's at....my mention of the color being so dark was merely an observeation, not a concern...I really didn't expect it to be so dark, but it "is" only day 1. FWIW my OG read 1.050 @ 76 degrees Wess

Today I brewed a Northern Brewers nut brown ale extract kit. I used the Danstar nottingham dry yeast, also added an extra 8oz of corn sugar for the added alcohol........My question is this...the instructions with the kit say 2 weeks in primary and 2 weeks bottle conditioning....is this really...

Look forward to it...we have our Tikifest typically early in November, the last 2 years we have had over 75 eggers here, and trust me...we don't have room for that many.....you can check out pictures on my website under the "Fests" section....would love to have you and yours join us this year...

Waldorf is always a busy but wonderful time for me, sorry to say i don't remember ya at this point....will definately keep you in mind for our anual Tikifest here at home...definately be serving some home brew this year...send me an e mail so I have your contact [email protected]

I tried to include a pic, but it didn't show up...trying again... Wess

Thanks for the welcome guys...YES I am WessB on the egghead forum..proud owner of 5 big green eggs, and it seems there are quite a few egg owners that are also home brewers, and I look forward to sharing adventures and achievements along the way. I have learned a lot of the little I already know...

I joined a little over a month ago, and have learned plenty from this site so far. When I joined I knew absolutely nothing about brewing beer, and in fact was not even an ale drinker...more of a burned out CBM drinker who gave up on beer a couple years back. On the recommendation of some other...