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add it to your secondary I haven't used juice per say but I have made a few batches of cherry wheat where I have racked onto 4-5# of cherries in the secondary. fresh cherries crushed then frozen, thawed then fermented :drunk:

http://www.honey.com/foodindustry/techspecs/techglossary.asp

eeep! I just pitched yeast for my first batch of mead and my OG is about the same. I also am using a champaign yeast. we'll see about how fermentation goes, but I was thinking I would be able to siphon off a gallon or so for around the forth of july for people to sample...of this year:(...

excellent to have another alaskan onboard. I currently live in Palmer, before that I lived in Homer for quite a while so I know a couple of brewers down that direction :mug:

Isn't the fisherman armed with a fishing pole??? :D

I've done both now and personally I prefer fly sparging since I'm never much in a hurry when I'm brewing. :cross: The one thing I didn't like doing with batch sparging was stiring up all the grains and having to think about my lauder turn get plugged with grain sediment ( I have a loop of...

been in there a few times already all his stuff is pretty good:tank: Someone said that he had a booth at the three barons / renaissance fair this year.

LMAO I don't get what is sexist in that description either ....maybe its that you drink honey wine for a male offspring and you made a honey ale and she wants to conceive a baby girl first???

Pictures for the Alaskan IPA deprived I would tend to agree with what others have said about this brew somewhat lite for an IPA. This would a good beer to pass to a domestic beer drinker who may have never tried an IPA as a means to get them away from the mass marketed swill.

about time :ban: http://www.anchoragepress.com/archives-2007/brewreviewvol16ed12.html

I was struck by this disappointment in yield when I started brewing. So now I start out with 6 gal of liquid for my 5 gal. batches of beers. After boil off and racking a couple of times I get my desired quantity and the product seems quite fine too :mug:

lol if my wort doesn't blow off now I'm kinda disappointed, like what did I forget, the yeast again? :p the very first two batch I made I didn't have any blow off, yes there was fermenting going on, but what I know know is that a) I wasn't adding enough water to compensate for boil off b) I...

there are 99 of us real pirates w/ the local 2744 (argh!) and many more apprenticed pirates ( or what we like to call them "wannabe pirates") some pirates are really ninjias in disguise so try not to be fooled. :p

I heard people still drink beer out of aluminum cans :confused: I haven't seen these type of "bottles" yet so I would be interested to see them first hand before I open my mouth and comment on them, but if they are just a glorified can that is shaped like a bottle, then IMO they are...

HOW DARE YOU DISAGREE! you must be a socialist! Take this mans beer ration away and forbid him from posting drunk smilies for 10 weeks time. if he resists put a hole in his kettle, that will make him think twice about typing drunk! j/k :p Its stainless, can be made shinny and...

I like both methods myself. Each having its own advantages and disadvantages. Kegs are quick and easy, best suited for where you have several people drinking with you and beer you know isn't going to be around very long.:drunk: keeping them chilled all the time in order to pour yourself a...

its a convenience thing. And like I suggested they would be perfect for an overnight camping trip or a day at the lake fishing without have to tote an entire five gallon can around. You can sit in in the back seat or trunk of your car w/o having to lay it down. I got the two I have from a...

no bids yet? mmmm too bad I'm broke, besides I have two that need to be rebuild anyway. I really cant wait to use them. They are the perfect size for a overnight camping trip me thinks.

I have heard the fusel alcohol theory before and I would tend to believe it. alot of the el-cheapo brews I have heard are made so quickly that fusel alcohol is somewhat of a by-product or that the cheapo brand of beer is just the batch of regular labeled beer that didn't pass QC and was dumped...

I've discovered that by pouring wort into my fermenter using a pyrex measuring cup and by scooping and pouring wort in the brew kettle while filling the fermenter that it becomes plenty aerated in addition to shaking/ rolling the carboy around when I mix the yeast in. It takes about 18-20...