What the heck is that?
It looks like a thermometer but it is all "wrong." 
mmmmm, smells good!
This is actually working!
Careful of the goo at the bottom.
WOW!
Thirty seven... thirty eight... thirty nine...
Ahhhhhhh...
Ping list please!
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Posted on 06/01/2012 3:28:50 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232
The Porter I just bottled started with an OG of 1.104 and finished up at 9.5% I am afraid it may turn out to sweet. I have never brewed a beer with that high of a gravity before and did not know where the FG should have gone. It ended up at 1.040.
Actually, our house has heat registers with covers big enough to swallow up a lot of objects. Bottle caps are no problem. I really have to watch the waste baskets, too, because they play basketball w/their toys. Who knows how many cat toys disappeared via solid waste services?
I had some genuine moonshine once .... a mountain guy named Sly made it. The second I took a sip and it hit my tongue, it was instant intoxication. I kid you not.
Aye, still doing the extracts both liquid and dry. We have been getting more creative with selecting malts, hops, and even yeast strains. We have done some research on brewing fully from grains, and it seems like it is a lot more work, with a lot more variables. We may try it someday though. I met an old guy at the brewer supply store who actually did the whole process by actually allowing the grains to germinate and cracking them and all. I am writing some software to track batches, and calculate specifics such as alcohol, color, and bitterness based on ingredients you add to the recipes and if your recipe fits the range of characteristics for the style, it even tells you which yeast strains are good for each style for a couple different manufacturers from their web data. If it ends up being awesome enough, might make it available free on FR.
Watched all 11 parts. Many thanks!
What the heck is that?
It looks like a thermometer but it is all "wrong."
mmmmm, smells good!
This is actually working! Careful of the goo at the bottom.
WOW!
Thirty seven... thirty eight... thirty nine...
Ahhhhhhh...
Ping list please!
.
89-93 k-bay then El Toro before I PCSed
Sure miss pyramid rock surfing and officers beach spearing lobsters
Excellent pictures, thanks.
you have been sdded
welcome... even old Bocephus showed up at his funeral
Heh! I just about gave up the Homebrew thing due to the dreary task of rounding up the bottles, cleaning them and finally sanitizing before bottling. A sufficient pain-in-the-ass to meander back to the professional brewers, until I went to the 5 gallon soda kegs!
Mrs. Brewingfrog said, “Honey, we can modify a keg cooler with a three faucet tower and have homebrew and pro kegs all at the same time!” Zymurgy has been most pleasureable since...
Life is good!
Kegging is definitely the way to go! Bottling is a chore.
It is Looking like the first monthly Homebrewing Thread has been a success and I have a question for all of you. Do you think there would be enough interest and participation in the thread if it were posted more than once a month?
Make it a weekly thread?
Make it a bi-weekly thread?
Or leave it as a once a month thread?
The ping list grew by 20 FReepers just yesterday through requests on the thread and by FReepMail
Your feedback would be appreciated.
Myself, I haven’t brewed in a while...recently tried some of the new (to me)Kentucky beer barrel bourbon ale...i may go ahead and attempt some of that lately because it’s so hard to find...read somewhere China is buying it uo kijke fiends!
Apparenly, it is just their regular pale ale aged in whisky barrels for 6-8 weeks...should be able to duplicate that with some oak chips soaked in Jack!
posted this thread to my own homebrew blog...sorry, cannot “pimp” that here...
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Just Plain Dick
aka: Gunny G
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Semper Watching!
Checked out your Homebrew blog. I agree with keeping it simple. I doubt I will advance from the Extract kits to All Grain brewing. Just to much involved for me to enjoy brewing. I like the beers I have been able to brew from the kits.
Thanks for the link on the blog.
If you do brew that beer barrel bourbon ale let us know how it come out.
Red_Devil 232
I wouldn’t mind seeing it on a weekly basis. I think there is enough information to share and as time goes on more who take up the hobby experiences, mistakes, successes and tips can be shared. I would like to see wine included in the discussion.
For some reason, they don't trust my brewing math. They seem to think that I'm off a couple decimal points when calculating alcohol percentages........ ;) They enjoy a glass or two, then complain that their "nips are lumb" and they can't walk straight.
Kinda' makes me proud ☺
Years ago I worked with some good ol’ boys. Being a young man I bragged how I could handle any kind of drink. Boy was I wrong! They brought some shine in the next day and after ONE sip my a$$ was kicked.
I have a Cranberry Mead technically a Melomel that I started last November and bottled a few weeks ago it should be ready by Thanksgiving. I hope it turns out to be good, a year is a long wait. It is in the middle range for alcohol % at 13%.
As you know I used to post the Weekly Gardening thread I would probably treat a weekly Homebrewing thread like I did the gardening thread - get the the thread started and let the posters take the topic discussion in the direction they want it to go. I am not much of a wine drinker so I have no experience in the wine making process, although I am right in the middle of the maturing process of a Cranberry Mead I made.
Screw HG and his gay lovers.
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