Recent content by Szerek

Fermenting. :p It'll be ready in a few weeks. I'm glad I worked from home yesterday because I had to install a blow off tube. Wife was getting antsy when the krausen was starting to bubble out of the air lock.

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Please let me know what you think. I tend to stay simple with my labels. Probably due to my lack of artistic ability. :)

39075 pounds of apples is 19.5 tons. Kinda puts it in perspective. Tonight I'll be cracking the first bottle from my batch. :)

I put my 5 gallons in the fermenter last night. :) 5 + 1926 = 1931

I'm getting ready to make a batch of EdWort's Apfelwein, however, SWMBO does NOT like dry drinks. I read in the original thread that some people use splenda to sweeten it a bit (I will be bottle carbing my batch). Any idea how much I should add to a 5 gallon batch? At this point I think...

I was thinking of trying some hard lemonade this coming weekend, however, after reading about yeast problems I was steering away from it. Then I thought of something. Has anyone here ever just taken some frozen concentrate, dumped it into some water and fermented it with a low attenuation...

I just brewed an Irish Stout yesterday from a Brewer's Best kit. The only reason I went with a kit is because my LHBS didn't have the Crystal 60L and the Black Patent pre-crushed already so it cost me a few $ more. I want to take this kit and take it from an Irish Stout to a Vanilla Irish...

I'm still a newb, only brewed 3 batches but I don't think the priming corn sugar or DME will give you much more than like 3 points, if even that.

I haven't picked on yet. :) I'll do my serious search this weekend. I may do like my other brews, and get a feel for the style by looking at different recipes and then just use BeerSmith to put my own ingredients together. :) Thanks for all of the opinions. :)

I have a question about Homebrewing etiquite. Generally speaking, how much does a recipe have to change before you can give it your own name? My first 2 batches were my own recipe (extracts) and my 3rd will also be my own (lawnmower beer). However, the batch I will be brewing May 12th I...

Was your 1lb of Amber DME Laaglander's by chance? My first batch used 3lbs of Coopers LME and 1lb of Amber DME. I used Laaglander's not knowing any better and the beer finished at 1.026 (it started at 1.052). Laaglander's is only about 50% fermentable compared to 75% with other extracts.

In that case it'd be time to find a new SWMBO. :D

After reading this thread for the 2nd time today I'm still left wondering if you get better clarity from a full boil or from a late addition. There seems to be quite a few conflicting opinions. :D I'm going to brew an extract brew this weekend. My first IPA was somewhat cloudy but I didn't...

In order for it to be sweet there has to be large quantities of unfermented sugar in the root beer. Yeast + large quantities of unfermented sugar = exploding bottles. It's fine if you keg, but I don't. In talking to my dad, in the old days my grandparents used to make rootbeer and put...