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Te-wa, I'm planning on transferring a gallon onto oak and a few oz of Bourbon when the time comes. Thanks for the input Old Goat. I was planning on letting it sit at least 2 months before cracking. What type of sugar and how much did you use for priming? Sent from my SCH-I535 using Home...

I just bottled mine with about 3.5oz of priming sugar. Was in the primary for 2 weeks then racked to Secondary for 3 weeks. Final og was 1.021. Added a fifth of Buffalo Trace, 2oz oak, and 2 Madagascar vvanilla beans. Let's it sit for another 3 weeks or so then bottled today. It still didn't...

How did you like the beer overall? I'm a little scared my smoked peat addition may be a little strong. Sent from my SCH-I535 using Home Brew mobile app

I forgot a pretty important part.... Before the oxygen I checked the gravity and it was at 1.110! After the oxygen I put it in my basement and added the airlock with a blow off valve. After a few hours I had a lot of crystal like looking things in the wort. After consulting some...

After the cool I transferred it to the carboy and it came out to a little more then 2 and a half gallons so I lost about a half a gallon between the boil and the caramelization process. I topped of the wort with spring water(which I used for the boil also) to 4.5 gallons. I left one of the...

I don't have a fancy wort chiller but I do have a couple feet of snow in the yard and a bathtub. I filled the tub up with snow and water and put the wort in for a chill bath. The water in the tub was around 20* and brought the boiling wort down to 58* in 16 minutes. All I did was move the brew...

Thanks! This post is taking awhile to put up - right after I brewed I hit the road for a wedding. After I poured the malt candy into the wort I stirred it really good again off of the heat to try and eliminate any clumps from burning. Once it was mixed in I brought it back to a rolling boil...

Once it was back to a boil I took it off the heat and put 24 oz of the wort into a separate sauce pan to caramelize. I brought it to a light simmer/boil and stirred it. I was afraid of burning it because of all the sugar so was constantly stirring. It took about 25 minutes to bring it down to a...

I poured the remaining of the 3 gallons into my book pot and heated it to 165ish for my sparge water. Once the mash was done I pulled out the grain bag and let it drain and also squeezed a bit. I know there's big debate about the squeeze method but after reading and researching on it for a few...

*same thing, not Dame thing.... Stupid Autocorrect Sent from my SCH-I535 using Home Brew mobile app

Awesome, thanks! I'm. Pretty pumped about this batch. Flars - I used whirfloc but yeah, Dame thing. I also cooled it really fast (boiling to 58* in 16 minutes) maybe that had something to do with the "cold break". What exactly is the cold break? Sent from my SCH-I535 using Home Brew mobile app

Brewed a wee heavy this morning and it looks like sugar crystals are suspended in the wort. Is that what it is or something else? Sent from my SCH-I535 using Home Brew mobile app

I heated up 3.5 quarts (14 cups) of water to about 166* on my stovetop then added the roughly 2.25lbs of grain to the strainer bag inside of the pot. After stirring really good it dropped to 153* :rockin: I took it off the burner, wrapped it in a towel and let it sit for an hour. Towards the end...

I smacked the Wyeast at 8am Thursday morning and let it do its thing throughout the day and into the evening. I got home at 9 that night and started boiling. I was shooting towards a 2L starter based on this video with Greg Doss of Wyeast Last time I did a starter it had some pretty good...

They did a good job of packing everything in to the small box. The big difference from Northern Brewer's kit is that they bagged their LME instead of it in a bottle. I'm assuming this will make it easier to squeeze it all out than try to drip it out of plastic bottles. Every kit is packaged and...

This was my first time ordering from Jasper's Home brew and man am I impressed! www.boomchugalug.com They have a great selection of interesting kits on their site. Maybe be a little more pricy but I will definitely be using them again. I called and spoke with Jeff about my intentions of...

I've spent way too much time on this forum reading and trying to get a grasp on this ridiculously addicting hobby so I figured I would help contribute to the madness. This is my second brew - first was the NB's bourbon barrel which I brewed beginning of December and am getting ready to bottle. I...

I cracked one of the smoked porters on Sunday and split it with my brother who also knows and loves his beer. We were both pretty excited to try it and unfortunately were both a little let down. For being a backstage series from Founders I expected a little more. Not sure what, but just...

I live downtown and I am yet to find a good beer store within a reasonable distance. It took calling a dozen stores last week to find a sixer of Dirty Bastard. I'll have to check some of the specialty stores next time I'm farther north in the Oakland County area. I used to live in Grand...

My girlfriend was in Grand Rapids over the weekend and brought me back 2 bottles of smoked Porter and a bottle of Sweet Repute from Founders! I'm gonna crack one of the porters tonight and age the other one for a year or so. I'm gonna hold onto the Sweet Repute for a special occasion - Its a...