Recent content by dkrules6

26322.5 + 5 gallons of brown sugar apfelwein = 26327.5 Gotta love that wein!

Having a drink on your dad tonight. Let him rest in peace. Lost my grandfather three years ago last week. A recovered alcoholic in his later years, yet a home brew enthusiast in his son and me. I miss him every day.

Be careful about white buckets. They don't block out very much light at all, in fact transmit it very well.

I think you've got it pretty much nailed there. I feel like infections in kegs are really hard to get unless you picked up an airborne or didn't sanitize well enough, which it sounds like you did. Until you can definitively determine that your keg and gas line are sanitary you should plan on...

With that high of a gravity you should be shooting for IBU's in the high 60s or low 70s. Your Windsor cake might not be able to handle any more alcohol than what you have. You're right about leaving it be. With fermentables still left in solution, the only thing that can happen is more alcohol...

There is nothing I enjoy more than the first warm day of spring. I'm looking for a spring-summer beer that I can drink out on the lawn in the sun. Leinenkugel summer shandy type, citrusy, whatever ideas anyone has to throw at me. My dad brewed a great lemony wheat beer a long while back and I...

+4 Brewers best APA 6839.5

I had to try one, it is my virgin batch. It was great. However, all of you were right. It needs another week or two of carbing. Thanks for the help.

I brewed a batch of Brewer's best APA, primary for a week, secondary for a week and a half, and now it has been bottled carbonating for a week. The temperature of the bottles has been monitored constantly between 64 and 67 degrees F, and I believe I am now ready to try one out to test...

Hey, I am a new homebrewer in Nashville, TN. Just got started out of a Brewers Best American Pale Ale Kit. Been reading advice off of the forum for a few days, thought I'd make an account.