Recent content by oregonianredbird

I'd love to know how your results were from using these fruits - especially the guava, as I have a couple of prolific trees in my yard right now. I'm planning to freeze ~15-20 pounds for a future sour, but haven't started anything yet. I might also do a guava by itself, a passion fruit or...

An earlier poster mentioned possibly using WLP029 kolsch yeast, and I'm considering the same thing. Has anyone tried that with this recipe? I have some extra 029 in the fridge, so I'll report back if I make the brew in the next month or so.

My thoughts right now are bitter with Columbus and flavor with Pilgrim, shooting for about a 6-6.5%, 50-60 IBU beer. At one point I was considering dry hopping with something that would add a touch of citrus, but now I'm thinking that might clash too much with the Pilgrim.

So kike, did you do this brew? I'm considering using both Pilgrim and Columbus in an IPA and am curious how yours turned out.

Well, in case anyone drops by and wonders what happened.... I ended up bottling a six-pack because I want to have something for a homebrew tasting I'm doing with friends in a couple weeks. The rest is still in my glass fermenter, where it will sit for at least another month. I'm hoping the...

Not sure if this is the best forum, but basically I'm curious to get thoughts about a beer I have in secondary. It's sort of a spiced cherry winter ale, definitely on the darker side. At the end of the boil, I added 32 oz of Knudsen's Just Tart Cherry Juice and pitched WLP022 (Essex Ale Yeast)...

Ooh, I like that setup - thanks for the picture. To update the situation, I transferred the beer 2 weeks after brewing (so 12 days post explosion). Since the SG was 1.030 at the time of explosion and is now 1.023, my fears are alleviated. There is obviously still a lot of fermentation going on...

I hadn't given that a look... I have a similar airlock that's not being used right now, and yeah, it's a smaller opening than I would've thought. I just never thought it would be possible for a hole -- even one that small -- to clog and allow enough pressure to build to blast the cork out the...

Yeah, it's one week today, and it's the first time I checked the gravity since the mishap. I usually don't check within the first 1-2 weeks, so I just don't have a good feel for how quickly it should be going down.... but I can hold off another week to see what happens

I'm brewing my first high gravity beer (OG=1.080). My friend and I went to get large diameter tubing at the brew shop, and we were told that a size that would fit onto the top of our airlock would be sufficient (~1/2" ID). After about 24 hours of vigorous fermentation, the stopper blew (hose...