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From what I can tell, just aim for a standard american wheat, bitter hop with something high AA%, and than late addition with cascade and Nelson Sauvin, dry hop with those same two as well. I am drinking some of this right now and I think the Nelson Sauvin is key, you can really taste it, sooo good!

I would think you would be better off finding a way to remove the ring. Just my first thought, I have not seen this kind of equipment first hand.

Try this chart, it lists possible substitutions for a large variety of hops and does so in a much clearer way. Hops Chart

If you want sparkling cider just siphon into bottles, prime and cap just like beer. The thing is that it wont taste much like woodchuck, your yeast will have eaten all of the sugar. It will be more like a dry white wine, not a bad thing just different than what you might be expecting.

Last year we had a bunch of Shiner Ruby Red Bird, its a beer brewed with grapefruit. It was really good with the spice.

I highly reccommend using some beer calc program. I use hopville, its really easy and will really help formulating recipes. That said, if you only add hops late in the boil like that you will end up with a very sweet beer. You will need to do a 60 min addition to get the bitterness I think you...

Its almost Crawfish season here in the Arklatex, I am super stoked. Who all does some cajun crawfish here? What do you guys toss in the boil? I usually do a bunch of taters, a couple packages of mushrooms, some hotdogs or random sausage and season with lemons, garlic, a couple bags of packaged...

That cream of 3 crops sounds really good and easy. It's almost crawfish season down here and having some BMCish stuff around for all the boils will be good. Thanks guys!

I am getting ready to do my first BIAB. I got a 30qt pot and a propane burner for Christmas and I plan on buying one of the 5 gallon paint strainer bags and home depot. What should I make as my first batch? I cant decide, my last 3 batches have been a brown ale, an amber ale and a stout. I have...

StarSan is completely safe, you are all good.

That what I figured, I knew there was a difference, I was just hoping at these small amounts that it was negligable. Not so much lol. I am fairly certain Santa is bringing me a nice scale with a tare funtion so all this should be taken care of :) Thanks for the input guys!

Ok, I am trying to figure out why my beer has been under carbed. I am batch priming with corn sugar, I used the calc on tasteybrew. The only thing is I have to measure by volume instead of by weight (no scale yet). Does any know if there is a significant difference between volume and weight at...

Having "foam" or not does not mean anything. My last batch of cider didn't create and krausen and it turned out fine.

I have never let my bottles dry before filling them up. I sanitize, and just before filling I dump what little starsan has accumulated at the bottom of the bottle. I have never noticed the off flavor you are describing.

I think they have recently introduced the Maris Otter LME, it was probably not our the last time you ordered.

Northern brewer is having a sale right now. You buy a 5 gallon keg kit and get an extra (used) 5 gallon keg for free.

1. I like to put the pellets in a muslin bag, but it is not really that critical. You will just have a little extra crud at the bottom of your fermentor if you dont. 2. I dry hop in primary, works great. 3. 10-14 days

That a pretty good method, there are a lot of different ways to do it, but the main things are to steep for around 30min, and make sure the temp does not get over 165. You start to extract tannins at that point and give your beer off flavors. As far as bobbing goes, its not essential but I think...

I thought the S-33 worked great. I hit my fg on the money, the beer is crystal clear and tastes great to boot. I guess everyone has a different experience. The was a feint banana nose early on, but by 3 weeks in the bottle was gone.

Sell them some bottle caps, removal not included. Sell them some yeast cultures. Sell them bottles, emptying and cleaning not included. Accept donations to your personal charity.