Recent content by petetheo

I plan on it. I really want to do a Scotch Ale and some sort of chocolate coconut stout and then probably the Enjoy By clone. I just brewed for the first time in over a year and now I just want to brew everything.

Well, I was really hoping to see a picture of the poured beer.

Right on. I think I'll try this next. I love "Enjoy By." It's one of my favorites.

Thanks for the info.

So, BeerSmith does not have the extract that I purchased from my LHBS yesterday. I wanted to add it in but it asks for the Potential SG and/or the Yield%. I have no idea how to find this information. The extract is Breiss Golden Light LME and I checked the specs on their Web site but can't find...

I love this. Everything I do is DIY and I'm pretty handy but I just don't have the brewing experience to even understand what's going on here, as I haven't even gotten past extract brewing yet. Maybe one day. Awesome work.

Any thoughts on whether or not it would be worth it to do an extract version of this?

Now, I'm interested in backsweetening and I'm also interested in having a sparkling cider in about a week from now. Haha. Actually, that's impossible. But anyways, how do I go about adding the concentrate? Do I just rack onto it in my bottling bucket? Or am I supposed to kill the yeast, rack...

The bad smell has settle out quite a bit. It was in primary for two weeks. I just racked it yesterday and it was at 1.000 at room temp. I wanted to rack it onto some cinnamon sticks but I didn't have any laying around. I picked some up today but I'm not how many to use in a one gallon carboy...

What kind of yeast do you normally use?

Been fermenting for about five days so far. It's been smelling like freshly pounded butthole but I've read that's normal. The bad smell is starting to subside and the cider smell is starting to come out. It's bubbling about once every ten seconds. When should I transfer it to secondary? Does...

You're saying that the yeasty taste MIGHT come if I DON'T do a secondary?

Okay, so I've brewed plenty of beer but this will be my first crack at cider. I'm a a little short on cash so I can't spring for anything fancy. I recently took a trip to an apple orchard and my family picked some apples as well as purchased a gallon jug of "flash pasteurized" apple cider. I'm...

Bottling this tonight. As you may have read, I changed some of the hops. This beer smells incredible but I'm not crazy about the taste. If you can pick out the grapefruit taste found in some hops then imagine that taste x1000. This beer is tasting exactly like a bite of bitter grapefruit. Very...

Transferred to secondary last week. When I opened the bucket I realized that my friend who had topped it off had put way too much water in it. It was sitting at about the 6.5 gallon mark. This was concerning because I was worried it would taste watered down. This was not the case. It was...