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Not sure why I didn't think of this earlier, but a ratchet strap could be used keep the pressure on for a sustained period of time and probably get a slightly better yield.

A few years ago a co-worker of mine brought his scratter and press over to my house to make cider from the 3 apple trees in my yard. Since then I've wanted to have my own press, but at $300-$400 for a press and scratter, I knew I had to go DIY. My vision was to build one of the DIY plans...

Northern Brewer has a Black IPA kit http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewing/black-ipa-extract-kit-1.html

So, do we get an update? Still brewing...still married?

I did this with a Northern Brewer Cream Ale extract kit last fall. Pumpkin was unavailable due to crop shortage so I just used pumpkin pie spice in the secondary and it turned out awesome. Everything I read indicates that the pumpkin really doesn't contribute much if anything. If you've ever...

Ohh I figured it was an abreviation but couldn't firgure it out. We started getting New Belgium here about a year ago, but I have not seen this La Folie yet. I agree with other 1554 is very good.

These are great, I am a big fan of sour beers too, who makes NB La Folie? I can't find much info on it.

My brother is moving to Denver the end of this week and my mom is driving him out there so I need to come up wiht a shopping list. What CO beers does everyone recommend? Obviously I'm looking for ones that aren't distributed nationally. I'm not a big fan of Imperials or IPAs. I typically...

Killian's red is priced about the same as the BMC's and is pretty good for the money. We don't get it here in WI, but I really like Yuengling's Black & Tan.

Yeah I siphon into a funnel with a screen in the top of my carboy so there is pretty good aeration just from the transfer out of the kettle as well.

Welcome and good luck on your first brew. I'm by no means a master like some on this board. I've been brewing since the beginning of 2010 and have several brews under my belt. I still consider my self to be a beginner, so here's some beginner tips I can think of. 1 - This is a matter of...

Well you guys were right, when pulling hydrometer sample s for the FG the color difference became apparent and the Irish ale was drier while the mild had more alcohol and hops flavor. Thanks all!

Hey I got one of those email addresses too, [email protected], no joke. It was my spam account for many years although I don't even know if it is still active.

I think it's fair to say there is no 1 beer that all non-beer loving women will like. My wife for instance was turned on to good beer with porters, stouts and brown ales. She like malt forward beers. She doesn't like blondes, pales, hefes, kolsches, lambics or anything hoppy. So to say a...

They are both very dark, like porters.

Somehow I managed to lose track of which carboy contains Orfy's Mild Mannered Ale and which contains Northern Brewer's Irish Draught Ale and they both are of similar dark brown color. Unfortunately I am not familiar with the flavors of either one. Any idea on what flavor characteristics would...

I think we need to know why your wife is ready to shut down your home brewing hobby as I find it hard to believe that the sole factor is that she doesn't like what you've brewed so far. My guess is that your homebrewing hobby is inconveniencing her in one or more of the following ways: -You...

I brewed a pumpkin ale last September using only pumpkin pie spice since pumpkin was unobtainable due ot the previously mentioned shortage. It ended up being one of the best poumpkin ales I have ever had and all my frineds liked it, beer snobs and BMC drinkers. The base beer was Northern...

I second this. I started useing hops bags very early on because I can't stand the trub taking up that much space in the fermentor. That's lost space for more bottles of beer! I haven't tried whole hops simply because Northern Brewer (my LHBS) has a huge selection of pellet hops compared to...

Man you guys weren't kidding about turning it down until you're scared and then turn it more. On the first batch I ran I tried to crush it to look similar to the crush from a roller mill and ended up with terrible (<60%) efficiency. On my second batch I cranked it down. Compared to the...