Recent content by sector7slums

Hello all! I've been homebrewing for about a year now in my apartment in Providence. I asked my parents for a kit last Christmas, and have since become quite obsessed. (To make a long story short, I just received my new chest freezer with temp controller for a fermentation chamber, because...

Welcome from Providence, RI! Are you in the area? Check out the RIBS (Rhode Island Brewing Society) facebook page, they meet at Trinity BrewPub. I think I may be attending the next meeting. Name's Sean, nice to meet you!

This sounds fantastic. I've been wanting to get into cider, I believe I will try the original recipe you posted. I saw your update at the 1.040 gravity, but what was the final gravity? Did it get any stronger?

I don't have much experience with honey but from what I've read, if you're looking for honey flavor you'd want to go with honey malt, as opposed to real honey. Could be wrong though. Sorry, not much help :)

I may be asking in the wrong place, forgive me... I'm new to the forums. But I just brewed something similar to this (Rye Saison) and it smells TERRIBLE! Like feet and garbage. I did really well with sanitation, so I'm kind of confused. Anyone have any ideas? Or could point me to a related...

So I've brewed maybe (10) 5 gallon batches at this point. Started off doing 3 kits to get a feel, read some books, decided to make a mash tun and go AG. I've done a bunch of recipes I've found online with great success. I figure the natural next step is to try my hand at making a recipe...