Recent content by mgross2

@ Deepsouth So after a few years of not brewing at all, my friend and I decided to get back into the addiction and dust off some carboys. He wanted to brew an apricot so after searching the site for a few minutes we settled on your recipie ( we were actually in our local brew shop using our...

I forgot to take an initial gravity reading on the hefe :smack: so I didn't bother with taking another one... I was under the impression that it would just be a cleaner beer by transferring it off of the yeast cake. But I guess I just assumed that. In hind sight though, I think I've heard...

This is a pix if the hefe after it has been put into the second carboy for conditioning. this is a pix of the brett apricot pale ale and the sediment on the sides. The beers are being fermented around 68 or 70 degrees

After 10 days of letting our Hefe ferment, my buddy and I decided to move it off of the yeast cake and into a different carboy for conditioning. Everything was cleaned thoroughly before hand and everything went smoothly. After pitching the yeast for our Brett Apricot Pale Ale on the night...

Thanks for the feedback man!

A friend of mine was helping me brew and he wanted something with apricot so we decided to do this recipe. The chicken will have to wait its turn cuz I'm going to be pretty thirsty by the time these bad boys are done. Question tho, when looking at the instructions for this recipe he has...

These are the pictures from my most recent brew. there are a few pictures of the wort as hops were added @ 60 min, 30 min, 5 min. then there is a pic of the wort chiller in action then one right after i pitched the yeast @ 70 degrees. the initial readings from my hydrometer were. 1.05 SP/GR...

Hello Everyone! Damn glad to meet all of you! I am new to documenting my hobbies but I figure that the best way to learn how to do things the proper way is to always be open to suggestion/learning. I just graduated college and I wanted to get back into brewing. I was involved in a few...