Search results

One other thing you may want to re-consider... After reading the advice of many of the elders on this board, I've done away with racking to a secondary - even when I'm dry-hopping. Unless you're adding fruit or something like that, it doesn't seem there's much to be gained by moving from...

+1 on just ditching the carboy and going with an Ale Pail. Glad you weren't injured.

I'm curious what your set up is - Ale Pail? Carboy? How much head space? I've been using an Ale Pail with just your basic bubbler on top and have never had an issue.

I have a recipe that I'm in love with that is almost all late addition hops and uses .5oz Simcoe and .5 oz Centennial for dry hopping. The only early addition hops on this recipe is .25 oz of Magnum at 60 min. This beer had great hop aroma and flavor without being that bitter.

Greetings... a few weeks ago, I posed pretty much the same question in this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f36/new-all-grain-brew-kettle-recommendation-needed-498793/ The only difference is I wasn't asking specifically about BIAB. The predominant advice (which I heeded) was bigger is...

DK - Welcome from a fellow St. Louisan.. well, St. Charles anyway. Tons of great information on this site and people who are happy to share their knowledge and lessons learned. Cheers :mug:

Going back to the details of the batch sparge... I'm new to AG brewing, but from what reading I've done it seems to reason that batch sparging in two steps would give you a better efficiency.. right?

Agreed. The analogy to antibiotic resistance doesn't apply here.

Coming (once again) to the realization that size matters, I did go with a 15 gal. brewpot from Polar Ware. It was $119 at my LHBS. Just a basic stainless steel pot (for now). Given the that I was *this* close to becoming the proud father of a bouncing baby hernia when trying to lift and move...

Big time thanks to all that have posted :rockin: Here are my take-aways: Size matters.. I'm now leaning toward a 15 gal pot I want a valve... now the big question is buying one that has it installed or do I go DIY? The notion of drilling a hole into something I just shelled out some...

Come hell or high water this Saturday, I'm doing my first all grain batch. I've got my converted Igloo 10 gal MLT leak tested and ready to go. The only additional upgrade I need is on the brew kettle. I'm thinking I should probably get something with a 9 gal capacity (brewing 5 or 5.5 gal...

I searched the recipe forum and found the following recipe posted by Cheshire Cat for what looks to be a very yummy Chocolate Stout: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f68/double-chocolate-oatmeal-snout-126638/ I just wanted to see if anyone has any others that they really like. I'm not...

So last night I went to keg a pale ale I dry hopped last week. This was the first time I used pellets instead of whole leaf. I also dry hopped in the primary. When I took the lid off the fermenter I noticed a lot of hop particles floating on the surface. I thought they were ONLY on the...

I've been mixing up 5 gal batches of StarSan and keeping it in a sealded Homer bucket. The last time I opened it up I noticed I had some black fuzzy mold taking up residence on the inner surface of the bucket up near the lid. Is it safe to assume that as long as the pH of the StarSan is...

I did a Saison over the winter. OG was 1.080. FG was 1.003. As I figure it.. it's nearly a 10.3 ABV. I'm having a VERY difficult time getting any sort of carbonation in the bottle. Thinking I may need to add more yeast directly to the bottle to get any carbonation. I'm open to suggestions...

The more batches I do, and the more experienced brewers I talk to - the more I'm convinced that just leaving it in the primary is the best way to go - even with dry hopping. I even tend to get better clarity that way. There's little to be gained and you stand a greater chance of oxidation by...

Baseball is the only inherently boring sport that I commit to and I love it. But then again I grew up with it… Go Cardinals! The only pleasure I derive from soccer is to make a comment about how boring it is when in the presence of a true soccer devotee. That is WAY more exciting that trying...

I just finished off a keg of Coopers Real Ale a couple of weeks ago. I used 500g of light DME; 250g of dextrose and about 225g of maltodextrin. I thought it was a decent beer, but I don't know if I'll repeat. It was a bit more malty than what I perfer, but not a drop went to waste. Some...

I saw a kit/recipe on Northern Brewer (I think) for a Spotted Cow cream ale clone. I think the called it "Speckled Heiffer".. cute. It had good reviews and I was thinking of trying that. I'm currently fermenting one the Brewer's Best Cream Ale kits. I got that because it was easy and I was...

My (limited) experience has been that trying to rapid carb is a a futile experience. Sure, you can get the fizzies in there. But it seems to me like time just makes makes for better beer. If you go nuts with cranking up the PSI and shaking it, you run the risk of over carbing it. There are...