Recent content by bowzwald

Alright so I'm driving back to cali from chicago. And I got a batch of a black ipa and a stout I wanna bring with. So my main question is if I keg those beers right before I leave and purge the oxygen will they be ok? I realize ill be driving over 30 hours and idk what the temps will be like but...

im using some washed wyeast american ale thats probably around 4 months old and has been sitting in my fridge. Let it sit on the stir plate for 48 hours. No signs of activity for about 24 hrs as with the other washed yeast ive used. Its going strong right now but there is more of a brown band...

it had a lot of mango and fruity flavors going into the bottle, very similar of dreadnaught. but idk what happened and it was super over carbonated so it kinda threw everything off since i wasnt really able to age it for a lil. i'll definitely try this one again now that im doing all grain...

Hey guys, i was just wondering if there was a difference between making a starter, crash cooling, then added new work and pitching at high krausen, or doing the same but letting the second step ferment out, crash cool, then just pitching the slurry. I've done both ways and haven't noticed much...

got a blow off tube all set up, the first batch was an ipa and it blew the airlock off. shoulda marked up the carboy beforehand but lookin at this picture its just over that second lip. so maybe 5.5ish or just over that? and i added a 1.2L starter to it after i took the gravity. one thing ive...

hey guys, big reader on here, first time posting. I brewed my 3rd batch today and it was an extract clone of 3 floyds dreadnaught. got the recipe here http://hopville.com/recipe/1193057 i got a full boil set up but i didn't wanna risk a boil over so i used half of the LME (6.6 lbs) and...