Recent content by badneighbor

I request a video walkthrough.

I can't find it for the life of me, but there was a DIY thread recently about drying hops that suggested temperatures in excess of 100 degrees would kill some of the acids (similar to this thread). I would suspect the same applies to making a hop tea at high temperatures. Edit: Derp. It was...

I apparently forgot to post an introduction. I am out of Cincinnati, and have been brewing for two years. I haven't entered any competitions, but I was told that one of my recipes did win bronze in a local competition in Washington (brewed by a first-timer, even!). I am currently brew with...

Kvass makes sense, since my wife is half Czech! The hops would definitely be whole. I'm going to try and find out what variety he would have most likely had available, because I don't know if he was in the U.S. yet. Thanks for the info so far.

Recently my father in-law found some old recipes that his grandfather had made. I want to try making a more realistic homebrew from the following recipe: That is the recipe sent to me by my father in-law, so I have not seen the original text. I'm not too keen on boiling hops for 6 hours, so...

How about a recipe for a root beer from around that time period?

That's helpful, thanks. The recipe looks delicious, if a little sweet for my tastes. Edit: but my wife would LOVE it.

I'm curious, why did you boil the chocolate bars for so long? Is that 4 bars at 0.4oz?