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I haven't posted in a while so I thought I would share what I'm doing right now. I'm brewing a blond ale extract recipe. After it's done fermenting, I will let it sit on top of about 10 lbs of watermelon in the secondary. I sure hope it turns out! Anyone tried brewing a watermelon ale without...

I've got a belgian wit that's in the secondary fermentor with some oranges aging in it. Normally I would keep it at around 68 degrees or so and let it age at that temperature until kegging, which would be 4 weeks. I'm wondering if I aged it for the same length of time but began to cold crash it...

I made a yeast starter tonight for a cranberry belgian wit beer for the upcoming holidays. 2 cups of water & 1/2 cup DME. As I was chilling it after the boil I realized, by the dark color, I used a dark DME instead of a light. I figure (hope!) 2 cups of a dark starter probably won't have any...

Okay, I didn't intentionally mean to mislead with this thread title but after reading it aloud I can see that it probably is misleading, sorry! :rolleyes: I have brewed a Moose Drool Brown Ale clone twice (same extract recipe both times) and, to me, the body of the beer seems thin. I pretty...

Well, this is the worst that's happened in my brewing history (which is only 1 year old). Tonight I went to transfer a Blonde Ale that's been in the primary for 1 month into a secondary and, while I was racking into the secondary, I noticed something moving on the lid from the primary. Then...

I created a starter 2 days before brew day. Right away I noticed a black chunk swirling around and around in the beaker as the stir plate did it's thing and I assumed it was something that was in the DME or even from the yeast bottle (WLP002). I didn't give it any more thought after that. I just...

I thought I had a good seal on my primary fermentor bucket but apparently I did not. With 6 previous brews under my belt I didn't feel the need to check on this latest one as often as usual because nothing like this had ever happened before. I could tell I was in trouble when I went out to the...

My sanyo bc-1206 seems to defrost by itself and I'm thinking somethings wrong :( It doesn't do it often so perhaps it could be automatic? Anyone also have any issues or problems with this model or can anyone think of why it's doing it? It's not fun cleaning up a puddle of water on the floor...

What could be a better way than to start off the new year by brewing beer? I've got a belgian wit boiling away, 50 more minutes to go. I'm going to make a fruity beer and add about 5 pounds of satsuma mandarin oranges (tangerines) later on. They are home grown so I'm really excited with this...

I'm going to make a belgian wit and I would like to add passion fruit to it but it's been difficult to find an affordably priced puree. I am wondering if a concentrate can be used instead of a puree?

Tonight I did a taste test for my Belgian Wit Raspberry Beer. It's basically a belgian wit kit that I added 6 pounds of raspberry puree to (added to secondary a week before kegging). It's been kegged almost a week now but I have been force carbing it so I can get a decent taster from. It's...

I've read every thread on foam I think. I have added beer line length and am now at 12'. I have a hef in the keg and hef's require more carbonation so I set it at 20 psi but I back it off to 10 psi to serve. I don't think I'm over carb'ed because it tastes flat until the second glass (of...

I kegged a hefeweizen and set the CO2 to 13 lbs and let it sit for 3 weeks in the keggerator at 35 degrees. From everything I've read, this should be near perfect as far as carbonation goes but, to me, it tastes flat. I pumped up the CO2 to 15 lbs and got mostly foam (but with better carb to my...

Last night was a big night for me, I got to drink my first ever brewed beer! Of course I've tasted samples here and there but last night was the official drinking night. It's a vanilla weizen beer and is quite tastey. I was a little disappointed that I really couldn't taste any vanilla to...

I've been reading about every thread I can find regarding Keg carbonation and it seems that, basically, if I connect the CO2 to the keg and set it at its serving pressure, it should be fully carbonated in about a weeks time. Does this sound correct? I don't want to do the quick...

I transferred my hef to a secondary yesterday and was curious about how it should smell. Should it smell good right now or should it smell like it needs to sit for a while? I know this is probably an odd question but my nose is sensitive and, to me, it didn't smell like a beer that I would want...

So I'm brewing my first batch ever and have a question, go figure, hehe! Anyway, the hef kit I purchased came with yeast, however, I changed yeast to WL300 (I created a starter from this) and have kept the brew fermenting at a constant 70 degrees for 6 days now. My original kit instructions...

I recently joined and want to say "Hi" to everyone here. Most people my age are deciding to buy sports cars, or travel the world, or run marathons, or save the planet by promoting green energy, but not me. I love beer and want to brew my own, is that so wrong? I didn't think so, and I'm happy...