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One of the final bottles from my September 2011 batch of pumpkin ale. Just keep getting better with age.

September 2011 Vintage house pumpkin ale.

Beers with a lot of unfermentables cause gas in the same way that beans do. Larger, more complex sugars aren't broken down until they reach the large intestines where they need the help of bacteria to break them down and in the process they release large amounts of gas in your bowel. Also, the...

Sorry I didn't think to post this when I first poured it, oh well. Just doing a bit lawning, getting a little work done, reading HBT, and drinking... This one happens to be a saison that I found that's been aging for 18 months now, it's excellent.

Replacing the extra light DME with light or amber would make the beer darker and might give the beer a little more body. Probably wouldn't qualify it as Tripel by the strict style guidelines, but it'd still work. I've never made this particular beer with the EKG's, but I know people that say...

I just cracked one open from Stone tonight, it was hazy colored, but otherwise exactly as described. Extremely herbal, lots of rosemary, it was interesting and had a little bit of saison type funk to it, but overall I don't think it was for me.

Yeah that noise would be annoying. I Don't have any ideas on how to use them, but just wanted to add that those plastic pieces you've describing as being broken are designed to break at a certain point to avoid over-torquing the motor. So if you've broken two recently, maybe you should look...

So last year, August 1st to be exact, I brewed up a 5 gallon batch of hefeweizen. Thought it was pretty awesome myself and it was nice and cloudy, just like it should be. Now I also like to savor my beers because I'm stuck with the mindset of every batch is one of a kind. That what I'm...

6# wheat DME 8 oz cara-wheat malt 8 oz cara-pils malt 8 oz pale wheat malt 0.75 oz hallertau hop pellets (4% AA) @ 60 min 0.25 oz hallertau hop pellets (4% AA) @ 15 min 0.25 oz sweet orange peel @ 10 min (optional) Steep grains in 2.5 gallons water at 150F for 30 min. Bring temp up and...

Nope, no concerns at all with that. It was added while the wort was still plenty hot to kill off any nasties so you're good.

Just popped open my first bottle. I made it by the original recipe, except I backsweetened with lactose and carbed in bottles. And this stuff is incredible. Tastes so smooth, goes down easy, nice fizzy carbonation, not so much in the way of apple flavor, tastes more like white wine to me, but...

Anyone ever make a lager in an unmodified fridge? So I'm thinking about brewing a lager for the first time here pretty soon. But here's my situation, I don't have an extra fridge to dedicate as a fermentation chamber or even the space to get one so that's out of the question, all I have is...

Out of about 20 batches or so, I've only had 1 blowoff, and that was with a hefe using wlp 380. I only just started making starters for my last 5 or so batches including a tripel using 3787, and it did get a nice krausen, but still no where near blowoff. All of this is with 5.5 gallons in a...

From my experience, it's a temperature issue. I've done several saison's over the past couple years. The first one was an extract batch about 7% and I used the white labs saison II yeast, I started fermenting at room temp and then ramped it up to the 80s just like you described and it came out...

Man I can't wait to get into my first batch of this stuff. I made it back at the end of May and I bottled it a couple weeks ago so I've been letting it carb up. I think I'm gonna throw one in the fridge when I get off work tonight, should have thought to do it this morning though.

Bottling my batch of Belgian Tripel, then packed up and got all my cases I've been stocking up from my several batches this summer ready to move back to school. Guess who's ready for football season. :rockin:

I've made starters with and without it and haven't noticed a difference. I've also made full batches with and without it with the same results. It is possible to use too much, especially with the urea based nutrients. However I don't know how much is too much, just follow the instructions and...

Malt Sweetness: 4 Malt Character: 5 Hop Bitterness: 6 Hop Character: 10 Yeast Character: 3 Residual Sweetness (FG): 3 Alcohol Level: 4 Body: 7 Color: 3 Carbonation: 5

Awesome build thread, there's a lot of good stuff in here. I've just recently started getting supplies together to hopefully start building my own soon. One question for anyone who built a base with the casters, is the freezer just sitting on top of the wooden base, or is it somehow more...