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  1. K

    Snohomish(ish) WA

    Hey Rodent! Greetings from Lake Roosevelt. You might be the guy I need to talk to since you switch from extract to All Grain. I want to make my first extract IPA beer this week. I have been reading a lot on the forums and I find so many different ways of doing it. The one that intrigues me most...
  2. K

    Rehydrating dry yeast

    You guys all have convinced me that when I finally build my batch of beer next week I am going to double sprinkle a double dose of us 05
  3. K

    Rehydrating dry yeast

    One of the quick question I seen the come up with lots of them. When making Mead it is a daily protocol just the world the bucket vigorously 2D gas the must. From what I am Gathering when you make beer it is a set and forget it approached?
  4. K

    Rehydrating dry yeast

    Show my next questions are concerning my keg. When I bought the keg I saw it off one of the pickup tube to keep from dispensing any settling debris from the mead or ciders overtime. I have a red raspberry apple cider keg that should run out about the time my beer is ready and I was going to...
  5. K

    Rehydrating dry yeast

    Don't build a house by watching the do-it-yourself programs on TV or by reading a book. Talk to an expert like me! That's where I shine you guys definitely shine with all of your experience here and I'm so grateful
  6. K

    Rehydrating dry yeast

    Thank you so much going to get started on this next week and I will keep you posted you have been so helpful
  7. K

    Rehydrating dry yeast

    When using the primary fermenter only and eliminating the secondary and dry hopping in the primary they gave me what looks like hop pellets and I'm assuming you just crack the lid on the primary and throw them in at the appropriate time. Then after five days I plan on siphoning it out into a 5...
  8. K

    First Cider

    Well I learned something yesterday when I went to the local homebrew store. Stepping away from making Mead and cider and taking on this new adventure of malt extract beer brewing and getting involved with the different yeast I learned that yeast cost around 4 bucks a pack such as us 05 to make a...
  9. K

    Rehydrating dry yeast

    Yeah whatever it's more like being disabled and doing what I can
  10. K

    Oxygenation of Wort

    I just did the same thing this spring and filled it up with Aviation oxygen
  11. K

    Maple wine

    I got a one gallon batch of orange juice and maple syrup Brewing and it's looking and smelling really good. I use EC 1118
  12. K

    Rehydrating dry yeast

    I had to make a trip out of the mountains today to go to the doctor so I stopped at but local homebrew shop and bought me extra us 05 yeast so I can double pitch
  13. K

    Rehydrating dry yeast

    I am a believer that it is hard to over pitch
  14. K

    Rehydrating dry yeast

    I guess maybe I should have just requested a double portion of the dry yeast when I ordered the dead ringer IPA
  15. K

    Fruit concentrates in cider

    I would really love to find some frozen concentrated blackberry juice without being mixed with something else. Looks like it's another dry year and blackberries are going to be minimal. Very few berries last year so we scavenge some elderberries and made a stab at that and it didn't turn out...
  16. K

    Fruit concentrates in cider

    Yeah sorry about that
  17. K

    Fruit concentrates in cider

    Yep that's why you need a pH meter some acid blend some tanin and all the other things that go with it fermaid o- and K and Go Firm. Retired early at 53 with a work-related injury and basically all this Brewing gives me a hobby and something to do
  18. K

    Fruit concentrates in cider

    Sugar is cheap it's the honey for Mead and the syrup for Maple wine is what gets expensive
  19. K

    Fruit concentrates in cider

    I happen to ride my 4-wheeler through the 18 hole golf course that has been abandoned for about 6 years and discovered zillions of dandelions but got there too late this year all that's left is the white Blow Away type heads so next year I'm going to keep my eye on it and make a dandelion wine
  20. K

    Fruit concentrates in cider

    Some of us poor boys can't afford vodka so we resort to the model of if it ferments make it
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