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I Biab with a King cooker jet stand from HD. It all stays outside under a tarp when not used and can brew 10g batches. You could build a lean- to off the side of the house to store it outside.

this is cooling now. my pumkin pie filling was allready spiced and it seemed somewhat strong so I only went with half a teaspoon of pie spice. I tossed the roasted pumpkin in with the mash BIAB and mixed it in. it smelled like a pumpkin pie in my back yard for the last hour. though over shot...

Think i'll brew this on Columbus day. my oven is broke so i need to use the toaster oven to cook one can at a time. lol! should be ready by November.

i read about that along with other horror stories. I don't carry the glass carboys full anywhere. I pick them up to put on a counter to siphon but I have them in plastic milk crates. I got rid of the metal handle that wrapped around the neck because i've read about the neck snapping off while...

I brew on my covered porch in bad weather and outside the bilco doors in good weather then run a hose from the spigot on my biab pot down to the ferm chamber (fridge) in the basement for my 10 gallon batches. I just walk the 5 gallon batches down the stairs. then I just run clean water through...

Just made some cider with some spices. I tried the mccormick pumpkin pi spice boiled in some water and added to apple cider and it really didn't mix well. just settled on the bottom. So I got some whole nutmeg, some whole cloves, and cinnamon sticks. I added: 2 cinnamon sticks, 1 crushed clove...

I just picked a bag of mint that was growing at my moms wild and have it drying in my hop oast now. was wondering if I could use it in a beer and I think this will be on my list on beers for next summer.

So I let some friends sample it. Everyone said it needed more orange and spice. So I boiled up a half oz of orange peel and crushed coriander seeds In 2 cups of water for 5 mins. Tossed in the French press. Then dumped that in the keg. Gave it a few mins to mix and let them sample again. Got the...

I lean towards pin-locks so I have one slotted socket to rule them all. crescent wrench for ball locks because i have two sizes. though i like to save the ball locks up for mass soaking. then i'll break out my deep well set. but, 100% of the time my liquid side clogs it's because of hops or...

just kegged it. initial thoughts are it's super crush-able and has a surprisingly pleasant orange character to it without it being the focus like the original recipe. it subtlety finishes with a hint of spice that lingers on the tip of your tongue. it is warm and flat and really cloudy though so...

So I brewed up 10 gallons of this on the 13th. so been in the fermenter a week and a few days. changed it slightly to be less shock top with an orange and more bluemoonish without the orange. 10 lbs of pale. 10lbs torrified wheat. 1 oz of first gold at the 60 min. mark. 1 oz of first gold at 5...

ok. so i've been drying and vacuum packing the hartwhick. at 2 lbs right now and still have a few oz left in the oast drying. I'm thinking I lost half a lb dried when the bines fell. i'm not too cut up about it.

how do those smell? any hops I grew that ended up brown smelled like onions. the green ones should still be good. I make a hop tea by boiling water in a tea kettle, give it a min to not be boiling temp after it whistles, then add it to a french press with an OZ of leaf hops (most i can fit...

I wonder where these came from. did they make them "back in the day"?

so first keg was not good and I ended up throwing 2 oz of summit into it to make it taste good. (hiding off flavor) I just pulled the 2nd keg out of the basement and hooked it up. I let that naturally carbonate. it's still warm (65 ish) but it tastes completely different from the first. no...

I've seen this before but forgot about it. made the blueberry before and people loved it.

this yrs harvest would of been more if it weren't for the storm knocking my hops over. lost maybe a quarter of the side-arms due to falling damage before cones were mature. just withered on the bine. after managing to get it back up in the air everything was a mess and cones were buried away...

Little over 7 oz dried. did Small packs for test brew.

I have this problem now after transferring from fermenter to carboy. I plan to just go buy more applejuice from aldi's and fill it up. I got time to let the half gallon or so to ferment out.

I harvested two of the plants on the weekend and started the other two plants last night. the sheer weight of these plants....i had no idea.