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Founders KBS Barrel Aged Spicy Chocolate, bottled on 12.27.23 per the label... It's pretty amazing! Only one bottle left 😥

Batch priming is the way to go, but I think the "proper" way to do it is: Chill your fermenter, add your gelatin, wait 2 days or 2 weeks When you are actually ready to bottle: measure out your priming sugar add it to an equal amount (by weight) of boiling water stir thoroughly to fully...

Gonna hold off on The Temu Trappist for now, got some other stuff I want to brew first, but the idea of a "possibly passable" no-boil belgian quad (hop tea only) that a guy could knock out in 15 minutes is intriguing. Heck, it might even be tasty.

Been a while since I did anything with malt-extract (not counting using it to boost my all-grain imperials), but inspired by this thread questioning LD-Carlson's blatant rip-off of the CandiSyrup Co's branding, I present this candidate for a super quick brew day -- should only need to boil 3...

No need for that big of a kettle: check out this maniac :rock:

What hops? I'm thinking of trying this again, but with Perle and T58...

Last beer I brewed (tropical stout, 1.067, 3 gallons), after mashing and squeezing the hell out of the bag, I did a rinse of the grain bag (grist: 6.5 lbs malt) with a quart of RO water. And got a gravity reading of 4 brix on the refractometer. Decided it wasn't worth the trouble of extending my...

touche'

So tasty, I had to have a second bottle -- took a pic this time!

A bottle from this delicious recipe, keeps getting better every week!

Interesting, tho (especially that they make it from zero actual hops)!

Hmmm, nope, didn't occur to me. I did soak the magnet in OxiClean...

... a little light music to lull me to sleep...

I buy a one gallon jug of distilled water at the grocery store, pour out an once or two, then add in just shy of 1/4 ounce concentrated StarSan. From there, I refill my spray bottle as needed. I don't soak bottles in StarSan, I soak them in OxiClean (scent free), rinse them out, give them a...

Actually, that was the other hard-drive magnet. The hops did take on a slight orange-ish hue, but not quite so much as that picture would indicate. I definitely tied the bag up too tightly (trying to keep it from drooping into the beer before I was ready to dry-hop).

HB Belgian Quad, made with authentic CandiSyrup D-90, 3% thomas fawcett pale chocolate, 1% briess chocolate, a pinch of flaked wheat (shoulda used more, the foam is a bit disappointing), and the rest UK pale malt... It would no doubt disappoint the purists because it's not so fruity (I...

Soapy glass? Would also explain the lack of foam/head on that beer...

After a recent beer where I dropped the hops in loose, and my bottling wand clogged (I transferred from fermenter to bottling bucket first) up tight, I vowed never again! Think I'm going to order this...

Bottled my 2.5 gallons of Cascade/Citra Session Pale Ale. Despite taking some steps to minimize oxygen, the aroma was very underwhelming (when in theory, aroma should have been at it's peak). Looks like a lot of the hops never even dissolved. They were in a paint straining bag that I tied the...

Made 2.9 gallons of 1.067 Tropical Stout wort, finally used up the remaining "pucks" of Palm Sugar that have been sitting in the pantry for ages. Went for smooth roast: 5% roast 300, 3% chocolate 350, 3% pale chocolate, 2% midnight wheat, and I think I nailed what I was hoping to get from that...