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The oak chips work faster because there is more surface area in contact with the beer, so if time is a factor go with that. other then that i cant really see any difference other then bragging rights

ok so i want to do Vanilla Porter would you guys boil the beans int he boil? or pasteurize them and put them in the primary fermenter and if you do, how do you keep the flavor of the bean during pasteurization? i was figuring on boiling in whole beans, and adding extract to the primary what do...

I'm going to try to add star berry jolly ranchers to the secondary of my next beer which will be an American wheat. how is that for out there?

sorry there was 3 oz of roasted barley

Congratz! i just got done with my 2nd all grain! 1st one ended in disaster...a moment of silence for the vanilla cream ale that never was.... but it was still alot of fun!

Ok so this is why i love my brew store. after getting the OK from the mrs. i went into the store and said "steve, the wife said i can brew, i have no idea what i wanna make. " 2 hours later we figured out i wanted to do a stout. so here is what we came up with, its a clone of Samuel smith's...

awesome...i need to own that

going on day 2 off 4 for the primary had to put a blow off tube on it. ive never seen bubbling this fierce! awsome

ok so its my 1st all grain im doing a cream ale, lightly hopped. anyway im noticing a hell of alot more bubbling then normaly happens. is that....uh normal for all grain vs. extract?

really?

so 1st benefit making beer has endeared me to my soon to be father-in-law you know who wants a tie on fathers day when you can get homebrew 2nd. great beer on demand. nuff said. 3rd. ive noticed people want to be my friend more...not sure if thats a benefit 4th on the hand, ive meet...

well im going to have to go with a 9 if 10 is sex with 4 supermodels. well 9.5....6 if it was 4 megan foxes...

So i just bottled this morning, and now im wishing that mankind had perfected time travel... :mug: take the beer from my hand young grasshopper :mug:

bad beer is like bad sex, choke it down, smile, leave in the morning and dont call back

1 word Callahan's on mera mesa Blvd have the red tell them joy Berry sent you!

Id try it

as long as there arnt any scratches in your bucket your good, in my restaurant we use bleach and hot water to sanitize things, your aiming for 1 part to 10,000 parts water to bleach, about 1 cap should do it let it sit for about 30 min, and wipe with a soft sponge so you dont scratch it...

lol thanks but i dont chill it to kill the yeast for bottle conditioning. i think ill just stay with whole hops

ok so i just brewed up a nice heff, and i added the hops .5 oz of saaz im using hop pellets for the 1st time and my beer went from a nice yellowish/brown to green when i added the hops! its in the primary and its still green! has this happened to anyone else? dose it go away? have i stumbled on...

what is whirlpooling? and what do i need to do it?