Recent content by dawalkertiger

thanks for the info. maybe i'll just stick with the citra. like I said the hydro sample wasnt bad but it was wat different than the one with centennial. cheers!

hey all. I brewed a 2nd batch of the Bell's Two Hearted clone (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f69/bells-two-hearted-ale-clone-close-they-come-91488/). I call it James River IPA. Anyway, the first batch was exact to the recipe and was spectacular! We brewed it again, but couldn't get Centennial...

bottled this yesterday after 4 weeks primary in my ghetto swamp cooler (@60-62 F). had about 2.5 pints left (short on bottles) so drank that while brewing a kolsch. wow! this is a great beer. will probably brew again in a couple weeks just to keep a winter supply. I missed the OG and FG (low on...

hmmm... that makes sense. wyeast shows that as an ale yeast. but I think the strain acts somewhat like a lager yeast.

My first batch was from back in March. It was a Kolsch-style ale extract kit from Williams that came with my equipment kit. I brewed it per instructions (with one addition, added lemon zest for last 15 minutes of boil). Came with Wyeast 2565 Kolsch smack pack. It turned out really great, and it...

thanjs y'all. will let it ride!

have the Bell's 2 hearted clone from here in primary. its been fermenting for 3 1/2 weeks. dry hopped it last Friday or Saturday (notes at home, 1 oz centennial). was planning on bottling tonight but brew buddy can't make it. can I wait until Monday to bottle or should I go ahead? I can't do it...

Presenting Wears Creek Lemon Kolsch. My first brew. Extract. 2 weeks in primary. 2 weeks in bottle. Couldn't wait, had to try one. Probably darker than it should be though (boiled all the extract for the whole hour). A bit hazy. But all in all, pretty tasty. Slight lemon hint due to zest in...

I'm not afraid to admit my love for Natty Light and Miller High Life and occasionally PBR. Would rather drink those than BL or Lite.

Looks and smells great. 3 weeks conditioning is gonna be hard!

Brewed this a couple weeks ago. Took a reading yesterday and its down to 1.011. Probably bottling on Monday. Sample was maybe a bit thin. Is this common? Will it fatten up conditioning in the bottle? I plan on about 3 weeks of conditioning. Want to have it in May for my birthday.

This is helpful y'all. I have a solution until I get the chamber built. Hoping I can get my old freezer out of the room its in. It's so old and big and heavy, the room was kinda built around it! If I can, it will become the fermentation chamber using the STC-1000 and we'll get an upright freezer...

Could you get 2 buckets in the 5 cu. ft. model?

Yeah. The genesis of this thread is deciding to buy/build some kind of fermentation chamber now or wait. I may look into using a swamp cooler for the time being.

Cool. But if more craft brewers go to cans, it seems like it will get harder to find bottles for home brew. Imma set up a kickstarter for my kegging equipment!