Recent content by Estrider03

Alright ladies and gents, since it is now harvest time I have available to me some raw wheat. I would like to make a beer from this but am at a bit of a loss trying to figure out how to do it. I have played with recipes online and can't seem to find one that will accommodate my thoughts. Please...

Thanks everyone! Survived the tropical storm by bottling beer and drinking a fresh vanilla porter!

I need some help and am stuck at the house during this tropical storm. I am out of priming sugar and have some free time on my hands to bottle some lovely brown beer, but I cant get to the brew store for more priming sugar. Is there a substitute that will work? I am new to this and believe that...

North Jaxs

I live in north Florida and have the same problem. It gets expensive to smoke with bought hardwood. Try finding you a citrus grower and see if he has trees that he has cleaned out. The flavor from the trees works amazing on pork!

Thank you very much! I thought that I was going to have to get some sort of conversion to get it to work. Thank you again, you saved me some money cause I was ready to just buy new kegs!

I got ahead of myself like I always do and did not do the research like I should have. I found a restaurant that uses soda kegs and they sold them to me cheap. Now I don't know which kind I have and what I need to make them work in my beer cooler. They are old coke and sprite kegs. I want to...

So I did a brown ale this weekend and had some problems. I would love for some help cause is cannot figure out where I went wrong. I was making a 5 gal batch and only ended up with about 4 gallons after I sparged. Total water used was 7.2 gallons. Did the grain soak that much up and what can I...

I have my first batch of kit brew going. It has been going for about a week and is looking good! I have about another week before it goes into the secondary. My question is, I have picked up two 5 gal. soda kegs and would like to use these in my under construction keezer. I am wanting to know...

My brother and I will be getting started in our own brewing adventure this next week. I have been online and reading a ton of blogs about getting started. I have been trying to find the brewing "bible" if there is one that will help explain as much as possible before starting. Any suggestions...