Recent content by BeardedBeerMan

Brewed up a batch of my bourbon barrel stout requested by my sister for after her baby is born. I guess it's a good sign when one of your brews is requested!

Put together a brew day kit of sorts. I've been looking for ways to organize some gear. Had a tool box sitting around that wasn't doing anything, so I put a bunch of stuff in that. Mostly stuff that I would use on brew day: tubes, hydrometer, refractometer, assorted additions, other test...

What's inside box #2 today?? This lovely IsoFlow bulkhead.

Got my dual scale refractometer from Brew Tapper (Amazon). Saw a coupon deal the other day that made it $9.99 +shipping since I don't have Prime

Had a rather adventurous brew day today (well, I'm calling it today. I haven't gone to bed yet) I was super excited to try out the new Edelmetall Bru Burner, which overall I'm pretty pleased with. Also had added a valve, dip tube, some camlock fittings and silicone tubing to my keggle. It was...

From left to right: Plain mead, raspberry, blueberry, blackberry Started as 1 big batch using a gallon of honey and almost 4 gallons of water and a handful of raisins, ended up being about 5 gallons in primary. Picked up some 12-16 oz bags of frozen fruit and racked the mead on top. Didn't...

Got this lovely Edelmetall today, just getting around to checking for leaks and making sure it works. Can't wait to brew with it this weekend!

They're gonna need some bigger penalty boxes on Tampa Bay, looks like that will be a fun series to follow

I'm reminded of an episode of Brew Dogs where they were in Brussels and made a beer completely against the Reinheitsgebot. They asked a local what they thought of American beer, their answer was "it's like having sex in a canoe, *bleep*ing close to water"

Thanks for the tips! I had at one point thought of just doing about 2 weeks with cherries, but with adding the lacto at the same time I figured more time would be better. Schumed, any specific online retailers you like for purchasing Omega? My LHBS generally only carries wyeast, but may be...

Looking to try my hand at a sour ale and was hoping for some recipe/process guidance. I'm able to procure some fresh tart/pie cherries (not sure exactly what variety). In the past I've made them in to cherry wine, but I wanted to do something different this year. Sour ale! My hope is to have...

I personally would want to go with something fairly simple (single step infusion) and something that is relatively "quick" to bottle. Just to ensure all equipment works as intended. I myself will be brewing a honey wheat this weekend, made this once before and it was amazingly delicious. Great...

Special B is probably one of my favorite malts. Some of my first brews were Belgian quad/Trappist-style ales using B. I love the dark fruit and raisin flavor from this malt

I agree with that - the less stuff floating around in the beer before the keg, the less you'll have to worry about cleaning out later. Now if you're going for a Hefeweizen (I haven't put one in a keg yet), the cold crash probably not so important

Awesome!! That makes up my mind, now if Northern Brewer would just run that 20% off again... Had a feeling I should have just bought it then!