Recent content by JohnBanjovie

Designing great beers by Ray Daniels is a great book that covers beginner and intermediate brewing techniques. It also has the basics on designing beers of your own, and detailed information on different styles of beers. I would highly recommmend it.

Vodka! :d (+4)

When I brewed an IPA two weeks ago I was drunk on twohearted as welll. I think it went okay. either way, brewing sober is sinful.

I would not recommend adding more water to your wort at this point. If you were to add water before you transferred your wort to your fermenter that would have been fine. However, the period after your wort cools and starts to ferment is very critical. Your goal is to allow your yeast to...

Nice choice on the williamette. Personally I like chocolate rye and think it would go well in this beer

If something like this happens to you again I would recommend trying to boil down your wort to concentrate it. My advice for you at this point would be to just roll with it and bottle your beer. It will probably lack some body, mouthfeel, and flavor, but it could make a decent summer beer...

mmmmmmm that looks great. I am currently drinking a Surly Furious. Would highly recommend it.

It has been a little while since the post asking about how much priming sugar to add to a batch, but here goes anyway. This is a handy priming sugar addition calculator. It lets you account for what type of sugar you are using as well as the carbonation level you desire for your beer style...

Batch Size: 5.2 gal Boil Size: 6.8 gal Boil Time: 60 Minutes Total Grain Weight: 10.5lbs Ingredients: ------------ 8.0 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) 1.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM)8 1.00 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) 0.50 oz Centennial AND 0.50 oz Cascade (60...