Recent content by dr_sanch

Hey All, Looking for a good and simple IPA recipe.. I'll be brewing by myself sometime this week so I'd like something that won't take too much manpower and yields great results.. I've been looking online and there are literally a bazillion IPA recipes out there so I figured i'd ask here...

Great stuff, thanks guys

Ever lose a batch to infection after bottling and then wash/sanitize the same bottles for a new brew? Am I playing with fire if I try to reuse previously tainted bottles?

Thanks for the link but I didn't have time to order anything online due to me having to brew today... I ended up using about a pound of fresh apricots (pureed myself) and added at flame-out ... Before transferring to the secondary I'm going to give it a taste test and decide how many fresh...

Ok, I've realized its going to be impossible to find Apricot Puree so I need to substitute with either fresh apricots or dried apricots (that haven't been dried with sulfur dioxide)... How many pounds of this stuff do you think I'll need to replace the puree?

How long would it take to pasteurize at flame out?

I'm not expert (yet) but I brewed up the Irish Red Ale recipe in Papazian's book which turned out pretty good: No Sham Shamrock Irish Red Ale (5 gal) 1 lb Crystal 1/2 lb toasted malted barley 5 lbs Briess amber LME 1 oz Northern Brewer - 8HBU (60 min) 1 oz Santiam or Tettnanger (1 min)...

And just to confirm - you ARE using Liquid Honey, right?

You'd recommend adding ALL the honey at flame out? Or some before and some later?

Hey everyone, I was wondering about a certain recipe a cousin of mine wants to brew up this weekend... I'm having trouble finding a store that sells puree'd apricots aside from the baby food kind (which Ive read is NOT a good idea to use) so I was wondering if I could simply buy my own...

I was always under the impression you should pitch right away or ASAP... Knowing this is gonna save me a few headaches in the future for sure! As well, I forgot to mention this earlier but the recipe called for OG: 1.042 - 1.046 and my initial reading was 1.032... What can I expect from this...

Thanks, guys... I was actually using Safale US-05... I can sleep easy!

Morning everyone, Made a nice batch of some Irish Red Ale yesterday evening and due to circumstances beyond my control I didn't have the time to properly cold crash or allow the batch to drop too far in temperature before I had to pitch the yeast. I think I must've pitched at about 26...

This may come off as a little amateur but the recipe I'm about to make calls for 2.3 kg of extract but my HBSS provided me with 3 tubs of 1 kg each... After dropping in the first two tubs, what would be the best/accurate way to calculate the remaining 0.3 kg from my last 1 kg tub? I don't have...

Bought ingredients for my Red Irish Ale brew session tomorrow... Also enjoyed a buddy of mine's schneider weisse clone and a fantastic English style bitter he made recently