Recent content by dhutchings

If Aventinus was non-alcoholic, I'd still drink it for the taste. I love it that much. About a year ago I came into about 20 bottles of their Aventinus Eisbock. That stuff is amazing.

Thank you for this link! I've purchased ball lock internals and kegs that should be arriving tomorrow so I can start kegging my homebrew from my existing kegerator. This is exactly the kind of info I've been trying to track down!

I just bought pure vanilla extract as I couldn't find a consistent amount of vodka soaked beans to use for a 5 gallon batch.

Yeah, I didn't want to get into a partial mash situation with it so in my second and third revisions I've left it out. This above recipe, I've just had my first sample bottle and it tastes and feels how I remember the original beer being.

Unfortunately Ottawa's a little far to drive for me to save on LME :D

Another Ontario homebrewer here. The places I buy from tend to sell LME and DME for $14-15 which nets you a 3.3 lb can of LME or 3 lbs of DME. Where are you buying from?

For the history, see this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=476646 Since I'm currently fermenting my third batch of it and everyone who's brewed it seems to like it, I figured I'd drop the recipe here. My latest revision of the recipe is as follows: Steeping Grains: .75...

For converting grains to extract: Multiply the grain bill by .75 to get an equivalent poundage of LME or by .6 for DME. You'll still want some specialty grains, likely. This chart shows which grains can be steeped to get their character into the brew and which need to be mashed...

Seconding this. I've used WLP300, same yeast, and made some great Hefes. Last couple of years though I've been doing WLP351 to great effect.

I've never had a head retention problem yet, but I've very seldom made an extract only batch, most have had steeping grains so I wasn't sure what the deal would be for a batch without some steeping grains.

I wasn't sure myself so I did some digging and this article: http://byo.com/hops/item/621-fabulous-foam seems to indicate that the head-retaining properties are lost during the processing of Malt Extract. Sounds like Carapils will work well for head retention, though Crystal is supposed to...

Subscribed. I'm interested to hear how this works out.

For wheat beers, I exclusively use Wheat extract with no problems. However, I did a Maris Otter LME-only ESB that turned out a little "off". It was the first non-wheat beer that I'd done without steeping grains in a very long long time. Not sure if it was the MO extract or what but brews I...

I made a decent Tripel a couple of years ago, I've recently re-brewed it and it's just finishing fermentation up now: 2.5 Gallon boil, 5.5 Gallon batch 4 lbs Light DME 5 lbs Pilsner DME 2 lbs Light Candi Sugar 3 oz Styrian Goldings 90 min 2 oz Tettnanger 60 min 1 oz Fuggles 30 min 1...

Bought a 6 cu ft Igloo kegerator this week. I'll convert the guts to Ball Lock eventually but I'm currently trying it out with a local beer (Waterloo IPA). So far everything works alright. I'm suspecting that in more recent models they've fixed the temperature settings. The first thing I...