Recent content by 46binder

I like wheat beers, but mine seem to have an off taste. I do all grain, and my efficiency has gone up alot since I stared maybe two years ago. Used to add a little extra base malt, but not anymore, and I still get higher efficiency. I grind my own grain, and for the wheat I do a double to...

I brewed an IPA and drank yesterday. At work today, so no beer for me.

Well I went to bottle this today, its been in the primary over a month, I dont really secondary. Its at 1.03, and has a slight grainy cereal smell. Fermented this in my basement that was too cold. Try to pitch more yeast?

I caved in and tried a bottle too early, not even a month! A little green, too much ginger, but that was my fault on the secondary addition. Some delicious hints of fruit notes.

Did an abv calc, I got 11.29% wow!

Just got done transferring to secondary. Gravity reading of 1.02, lower than supposed to be? Either way, tasted the sample and its amazing! Maybe slightly biased since I brewed it, and I love RIS's.

Brewing Jamils dunkleweizen Friday. Just transfered to secondary a Russian imperial.

Just brewed this again, but my OG was 1.07, maybe used 1/2 lb extra two row, I was following last years notes. Must have improved my efficiency since then!

I split this into a two day brew. Mashed last night, two sparges. Mashed with 5 gallons, first sparge 3 gallons, second 2 gallons. I got 7 gallons wort. Boiled 2 hours today, got 5 gallons on the nose, and an og of 1.106, pretty close. I was worried when some were saying they had poor...

Bottled this today, smells so fruity, but has a heavier alcohol taste now than when I secondaried. This will be great for Christmas!

Brewed a RIS today and bottled a Christmas in Belgium.

Mashing a ris, will do the boil tomorrow morning. 25 lbs grain for a 5 gallon batch.

Its been almost 6 months since I brewed this, and just to let everyone know, the beer has alot of head when I pour these, the pecan oil did not kill it. And the pecan taste is almost more pronounced now, if thats possible. Very tasty at this age.

Racked to secondary, sample was at 1.008, tasted amazing, then I effed up. Added 2.50 of candied ginger instead of the 1.33. All other additions after that were correct. Read past posts about too much of a ginger taste, how bad is the amount I added, and will it dissipate by December? Add...

The sweet smell coming from the oneway is amazing, already smells like a great belgian!