Recent content by knockout350

ok an update just in case anyone else hits this problem, the xx clone tasted fine no smell or taste but today i bottled a coffee porter and got the same smell but they had none of the same ingredients. i finally deduced what it is, whe i bottle i put my caps in a small container of star sans...

ok, ho le fuk i didnt expect quite that big of a turn out but to address a few question. the reason for the 40+ category was because i was having trouble setting up the poll and didnt manage to add enough poll questions when it finally went through. (and yes life ends at 40..... how low do you...

i was just curious what the average age of a homebrewer, i myself am 24 but most people think the normal homebrewer is in their mid 40s. just curious....

love some kegging equipment but im broke so..... maybe

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ok so i just bottled my dos equis clone thats been lagering for a couple months and i noticed that on the top there was a oily like slick and the beer smelled metallic. im not sure what the cause might be unless theres something wrong with my tap water having too much iron but that still doesnt...

ya pearly gates was kinda depressing tbh, havent been to wish you were beer yet. i would much prefer to buy from a local store than to buy online but if i could just get good quality basics i would be happy. never whent to alabrew because i never go to pelham.

i am actually in Birmingham but moving back to Huntsville this coming week and am a bit worried, here in bham there is a rather nice supply store called Hop City. but in Huntsville i can not find anything near its magnitude. i would really not like to order from online retailers and pay...

while there is nothing wrong with your brew i will caution you that you might get a few headaches in the drinking process. as i discovered with my oatmeal stout, if you pitch without it getting nice and cool your yeast is incredibly active and will ferment up a storm but in doing so it produces...

lol honestly i feel the same way with the brewers best kits i get from my local shop, totally generic with non-descriptive instructions. drove me crazy for my first few brews until i just kinda said **** it and went with what felt right.

i always transfer to a secondary just because i dont like the idea of my brew sitting on tons of dead yeast cells possibly giving off flavors but i thinks its a widely debated topic.

i actually threw some Hershey kisses into a batch of oatmeal stout, didnt really notice anything but in retrospect its a good way to contaminate the batch if the batch if their not sanitized first.

ya honestly its all going in, i wouldnt worry about it.

ya the only way i think it would even turn out decent is if you killed it with sugar and fruit and then distilled it into more of a liquor. it would help remove any heavy alcohols that would cause head aches and would help concentrate what flavors you did get from the fruit and hops but of...

hey be happy you have that contained. that happened with my very first brew (oatmeal stout) but i had just put it in an unused closet with wood floors unfortunately, took weeks to get all the smells out. for the record i always use a blow off valve for the first 4 days while fermenting just...