Recent content by wheidem1

Looking for thoughts/ideas in how to brew this tasty beverage. Any info or insight would help.

Hi AKtom and Steveruch, just to confirm for your IPA and ciders you did not toast the coconut.... did you encounter any problems from the oil of the coconut? My assumption is the toasting is recommended to to render off that oil. Personally my goal is a super light colored ale, so I'm...

Thanks guys for your responses, do you use sweetened coconut or unsweetened?

A couple of Random questions for this old thread. I was going to make the recipe as posted by formula2fast within the next week or so and was wondering. 1. formula2fast, have you made any changes to the recipe as posted? If not have you continued to have success with the recipe as is...

Any suggestions from anyone on a bottling yeast? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Jipper, Couple of questions for you. You had mentioned you had kegged. Did you do anything prior to kegging, such as add a wine strain of yeast or any priming sugar to your keg, or did you simply force carbonate? I have been working this recipe since November of 2012. My secondary currently...

First time sour. When am I to expect my pellicle? After the Brett? Roeselare? I have been in my secondary w/ Brett addition for about 4 weeks. Currants are floating on top with no pellicle yet. Is the lack of a pellicle a bad sign? I have my Roeselare addition in about 4 weeks then time.

Thanks guys! My bad - looks like I'm going to 1.016 then racking, adding currants and Brett, going 7-8 weeks and then the Roeselare. You were right! Thanks for your persistence I would have missed that step all together! Cheers.

Appreciate the pointers. Not doing adding a Roeselare, simply going 0530 to Brett in secondary. Am I missing a flavor profile here by not adding Roeselare? Following the morebeer.com kit.

First time sour, and learned some valuable lessons. Attempting to make the Concecration (aquired a kit from More Beer). Seems there is quite a bit of chatter and experience with this kit on this blog so off with the questions. 1. Any recommendations when to rack to secondary? I was under...

Would Diacetyl present in the beer produce a slippery, soapy feel on the tongue? Do you know is it possible to perform this test on beer that has already been carbonated? (granted its too late to give it more time in a fermenter with the yeast, but would one observe the same results, i.e. the...

There really has not been any similar one ingredient with any of these beers. Whether it be an extract a partial mash or an all grain this characteristic has been present throughout. Even my equipment has changed drastically with my desire to produce better beer – going from stock pot...

and now I have about six all grain batches under my belt. I remember my first brew like it was yesterday – lack of equipment and experience resulted in a beer that was not so good. Since then I have made the investments, purchased nice equipment and brew as often as I can. The problem I...