Recent content by CAustin919

I also have a Spike kettle, with welded ports for ball valve, thermometer and sight glass. I agree.. can't go wrong. Great price for a high quality product.

My new house pale with an ongoing joke among friends. Think infomercial when reading it.

Just a simple label for my orange honey blonde.

I second this. Just let it warm back up if you didn't already.. once the slush (water) is reintegrated it should be OK.

Hit the secondary today. Gravity is at 1.012. Instead of measuring by weight, I added the zest of two large Honeybell oranges. I brought two cups of water up to barely boiling and let the orange zest steep for about a minute. Hops, zest and honey went in first and I racked the beer on top of...

Orange zest and segments are going in the secondary 5 days prior to bottling.

I thought about bumping the mash temp but with the honey malt I wanted to make sure it finished on the dry side. I'm not too worried about the dry hops.. being just a half an ounce of Sterling.. it ends up pretty tame.

Ok.. so I guess I'll go with the plan as written.

I've spent/wasted a whole bunch of time today trying to come up with a recipe to brew tomorrow. Basically I was looking to brew something, anything with oranges and honey. I have family in south Florida who just sent us a box of fresh picked Honey Bell Oranges so I wanted to integrate those...

Newest Porter Label

A label for my new blonde ale recipe.. after wrestling with GIMP for a couple hours. Wanted to keep things simple. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

5 gallon batch of a Blonde 7554+5=7559 Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

This is just a whole bunch of awesomeness.

Cool pic. First time I went on a brewery tour that's was I took the most pics of... And still do. Half-Acre in Chicago.

Sounds like you got a snoot full of carbon dioxide..