Any brewers in the Conway Area?

[MoodyLane]

being able to pour a cold beer any time you want could get you in trouble...

I think the better half has finally accepted that after seeing an entire "man room" full of.. beer stuff, in her words. I'm pretty lucky. I've only slept on the couch a few nights after buying a regulator and tank In all seriousness she's 100% supportive of my beer and musician habits. Now just to fill a co2 tank and purchase ball locks and hoses..

 

[estricklin]

I think the better half has finally accepted that after seeing an entire "man room" full of.. beer stuff, in her words. I'm pretty lucky. I've only slept on the couch a few nights after buying a regulator and tank In all seriousness she's 100% supportive of my beer and musician habits. Now just to fill a co2 tank and purchase ball locks and hoses..

Nice! I too have a "large" mini fridge as a kegerator. I may have made some posts about the mods I done to it in this thread, I made some video, I should upload it to youtube. A circulation fan will help a lot, mine wouldn't get very cold without it. I also had to move the tank outside, too much of a pain being on the inside. Me and Bob figured it up, it's WAY cheaper if you get the bigger c02 bottle when you buy c02. They charge like 13 to fill up a 5 lb, and around 18-20 to fill a 20 lb! Doesn't make since huh? I'm still using the 5, I get 6 kegs or so out of one bottle so not too big of a deal I guess, but do plan to trade mine in when it gets empty this time.

Your going to love kegging, it's way too easy!

 

[BowAholic]

Nice! I too have a "large" mini fridge as a kegerator. I may have made some posts about the mods I done to it in this thread, I made some video, I should upload it to youtube. A circulation fan will help a lot, mine wouldn't get very cold without it. I also had to move the tank outside, too much of a pain being on the inside. Me and Bob figured it up, it's WAY cheaper if you get the bigger c02 bottle when you buy c02. They charge like 13 to fill up a 5 lb, and around 18-20 to fill a 20 lb! Doesn't make since huh? I'm still using the 5, I get 6 kegs or so out of one bottle so not too big of a deal I guess, but do plan to trade mine in when it gets empty this time.

Your going to love kegging, it's way too easy!

speaking of beer... I'm mashing a batch right now... Cathy beer with a bit of MO added... :rockin: Romeo is suppose to be here about noon to make some Black IPA. I'm also kegging the Dead Ringer in a few minutes to get the nice Centennial smelling yeast for todays beers!

 

[MoodyLane]

Can't wait to keg! I wanted a bigger bottle originally but I couldn't pass up on this offer. I'm heating up my water to brew a 2 gallon batch of my own sierra nevada pale ale clone as we speak

 

[estricklin]

Can't wait to keg! I wanted a bigger bottle originally but I couldn't pass up on this offer. I'm heating up my water to brew a 2 gallon batch of my own sierra nevada pale ale clone as we speak

What's that Honey Brown like?

 

[MoodyLane]

What's that Honey Brown like?

It was good. I needed to soak the grains longer to make it a homerun. The honey fermented out nice but didn't have the malt to back it up. On another note, my pale ale clone flopped according to OG. I was supposed to hit a 1.058 and managed a 1.036..

 

[iblandford]

So....I've had my banana vanilla stout in the secondary fermenter for a few weeks now and just noticed some mold forming on top of some floating banana slices. I assume it is ruined, but figured I would ask if there is any way to save it or treat it?

 

[estricklin]

Are you sure it's mold and not some lacto pelicile forming? How does it taste? If it's just on the bananas, you may be able to just scoop them out and salvage this. How about a pic?

 

[iblandford]

I think it's mold. Havnt tasted it yet. Need too. Here's a pic of it.

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[estricklin]

I can see the bananas are kind of oxidized, of coarse that's not a big deal. Yeah I don't think it's mold, hard to tell though. It's worth a taste that's for sure.

 

[estricklin]

Ok here is the video of my kegerator.

https://youtu.be/Flzb_DA3gQY

I'm going to do an update video later.

 

[iblandford]

Looks good! I've been thinking about starting to keg and set up a kegerator. Do you ever wish you went with a bigger fridge? I want to do it once, so I don't want to undersize it.

 

[estricklin]

Looks good! I've been thinking about starting to keg and set up a kegerator. Do you ever wish you went with a bigger fridge? I want to do it once, so I don't want to undersize it.

Sometimes, but the mini fridge decision is one that I spent a LOT of time considering. It doesn't take up much space, and uses less electricity. If you have a garage or shop, back porch or somewhere to put a bigger fridge or even better a keezer, I'd say go that route. Having only 2 on tap at a time, doesn't bother me personally. Now if I only had 1, yeah that would kinda suck. My kegerator sits in the kitchen, it's handy and is almost like a piece of furniture. It will be a lot better once I get a top on it though.

 

[estricklin]

Got some IPA bottled couple nights ago, now looking to get caught up on bottling this weekend, have a nice all Willamette Pale Ale to bottle.

Hope everyone is well.

 

[BowAholic]

Got some IPA bottled couple nights ago, now looking to get caught up on bottling this weekend, have a nice all Willamette Pale Ale to bottle.

Hope everyone is well.

well it's about time someone posted on this thread... I was going to post just to have one in March...

I can't wait to try your Willamette PA... you know I have a little of that hops to use...

 

[estricklin]

well it's about time someone posted on this thread... I was going to post just to have one in March...

I can't wait to try your Willamette PA... you know I have a little of that hops to use...

Oh you sure you don't need any Willamette? I've got a few pounds I can loan you haha.

 

[twill]

Just tried my Black Lager was very good with a hint of Chocolate on the tail end[emoji481][emoji106]View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1458951527.256246.jpg

 

[MoodyLane]

I'm sipping a black stout I bottled back in mid-February while I'm cooking a batch of my house Pale Ale using some Cascade I have laying around. After the stout I think I'll try my SN pale ale clone. I used Perle, Magnum and substituted Ahtanum for Cascade. Turned out nice!

 

[estricklin]

Just tried my Black Lager was very good with a hint of Chocolate on the tail end[emoji481][emoji106]View attachment 346890

Sure looks that way too!

I'm sipping a black stout I bottled back in mid-February while I'm cooking a batch of my house Pale Ale using some Cascade I have laying around. After the stout I think I'll try my SN pale ale clone. I used Perle, Magnum and substituted Ahtanum for Cascade. Turned out nice!

I used to clone SNPA all the time, I remember it being a simple recipe and was always so good. Ahtanum, that one i have not tried.

 

[BowAholic]

Today was a beer day... I brewed my first Bavarian Hefeweisen, kegged a Black IPA and a Cream Ale, dry hopped a Chinook IPA and Bell's Two Hearted clone, and moved my Saison De Noel to a secondary carboy! Thinking I might do a dark mild soon. Life is good!

 

[estricklin]

Enjoying a nice homebrewed DIPA tonight.

Oh and, it's baseball season.

 

[mmmooretx]

Sorry I have been inactive for a while, but I had a bunch of issues in 2015, like my house flooded on Memorial Day in Houston just before it went on the market, so everything got delayed by 2 months. I did retire mid August and my place is off Brandon, near the Wooster sign on 25, in Greenbrier. I have been doing renovations to my retirement place since August, including a new roof and wood floors. I am now starting to shake out the new system, but probably will not start brewing for 2 more months (June?), plus I will need to find an electrician to add a 50 amp breaker for my main power. The brew system will be a temporary tabletop set up for now but my fermenter freezers are in a storage building (10 gallon all grain batches).
I have two items as part of my update:
1. Is there anyplace local (NLR) where I can buy 50 lb. bags of base grain?
2. If any of you locals want to hook up to talk PM me and we will figure out where to meet (Buffalo Wild Wings?).

 

[mmmooretx]

My old system

 

[hawgwild81]

Sorry I have been inactive for a while, but I had a bunch of issues in 2015, like my house flooded on Memorial Day in Houston just before it went on the market, so everything got delayed by 2 months. I did retire mid August and my place is off Brandon, near the Wooster sign on 25, in Greenbrier. I have been doing renovations to my retirement place since August, including a new roof and wood floors. I am now starting to shake out the new system, but probably will not start brewing for 2 more months (June?), plus I will need to find an electrician to add a 50 amp breaker for my main power. The brew system will be a temporary tabletop set up for now but my fermenter freezers are in a storage building (10 gallon all grain batches).

I have two items as part of my update:

1. Is there anyplace local (NLR) where I can buy 50 lb. bags of base grain?

2. If any of you locals want to hook up to talk PM me and we will figure out where to meet (Buffalo Wild Wings?).

Nice system!
You can buy 50lb bags at Fermentables. There's also a HBS in WLR called The Water Buffalo. They have 50lb bags also. The Water Buffalo is also working setting up a brewery onsite.

 

[RedlegEd]

Sure looks that way too!



I used to clone SNPA all the time, I remember it being a simple recipe and was always so good. Ahtanum, that one i have not tried.

@estricklin. You should give them a try! They are similar to Cascade with a really nice floral/citrus flavor, mostly used for finishing because of their relatively low AA content. I made a Bock bittered with Hallertauer, but finished with Ahtanum and it came out phenominal.

 

[iblandford]

Sorry I have been inactive for a while, but I had a bunch of issues in 2015, like my house flooded on Memorial Day in Houston just before it went on the market, so everything got delayed by 2 months. I did retire mid August and my place is off Brandon, near the Wooster sign on 25, in Greenbrier. I have been doing renovations to my retirement place since August, including a new roof and wood floors. I am now starting to shake out the new system, but probably will not start brewing for 2 more months (June?), plus I will need to find an electrician to add a 50 amp breaker for my main power. The brew system will be a temporary tabletop set up for now but my fermenter freezers are in a storage building (10 gallon all grain batches).
I have two items as part of my update:
1. Is there anyplace local (NLR) where I can buy 50 lb. bags of base grain?
2. If any of you locals want to hook up to talk PM me and we will figure out where to meet (Buffalo Wild Wings?).

Awesome setup!!

 

[estricklin]

My old system

Very nice! I'm so ready to have my electric setup going, it's ALMOST done, I just have to get off my butt and warm up my soldering gun for a weekend.
I'm always down for a brew and I'm off on the weekends now that the oilfield ha slowed to a crawl. I don't mind meeting somewhere, but anyone is welcome to come by here and grab some free homebrews as well. I try to keep at least 50-100 bottled.

@estricklin. You should give them a try! They are similar to Cascade with a really nice floral/citrus flavor, mostly used for finishing because of their relatively low AA content. I made a Bock bittered with Hallertauer, but finished with Ahtanum and it came out phenominal.

That's not a bad idea, I've not been crazy about actually finishing with noble hops so something that would go with them is worth a try for sure. I'm leery of trying new hops anymore, but that one sounds like a good one to use in my German lagers.

 

[estricklin]

Oh and I roasted some Colombian coffee tonight.

 

[woo_pig]

I lived close to Conway in the past. Lived ing ravel ridge just outside of Sherwood .Moved to VA for a job .I miss Arkansas .

 

[estricklin]

I lived close to Conway in the past. Lived ing ravel ridge just outside of Sherwood .Moved to VA for a job .I miss Arkansas .

Good to hear from.a transplant all the same.

Stone, is now in AR and I just got a 6er last night really looking forward to trying it.