Recent content by SpentBrains

I'm thinking about a whimsical cartoonish label for the American Honey Pale Ale I just bottled up yesterday. I'd thought a beehive like this one I clipped from a google search would be a fun place to start, but I bet some of you guys have even better ideas?

Dude; that's hilarious! Especially if you're still married.

Wish to high heaven I'd have read this about 2 weeks ago... What a funky mess I have now... https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?p=7931628#post7931628

Thanks, lots of good advice. I am resigned to a complete siphon to a new clean keg. Just too much trub to get a firm compaction below the pick up. I have plenty of fermentation vessels, I was just trying to cut a corner and learned the hard way even though I knew the potential consequence...

Just tried that. it clears for about half an ounce, then plugs up again... I found a thread about siphoning carbonated beer. Wish I'd have read it before I tried it "my way"...

Keg lube! You can use it for more than just greasing up your post too.

This is my fault... Tried to secondary with a huge dry hop addition in the keg. I'd have normally waited another few days, but my neighbor was enthusiastic about a follow on brew day that would reuse the yeast cakes from this fouled Pliney the elder clone. His schedule was limited. Always...

I lost an entire keg of farmhouse brown ale I'd specifically brewed for Thanksgiving guests a few years back... The cornies were floating in it :(

oh....flask... like Erlenmeyer flask

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYAk29tL1pU

oh having keg 3 taps... it's real enjoyable to offer 3 significantly different styles Right now I have a Rye, a centennial hop lager and the Stout which rounds out a great wide ranging pallet (yes pallet not palate). We my friends are artists. A very bitter 90 min dog-fish-head clone will...

I brewed a dry Irish stout from an online supply house earlier this fall for a friend. He's about 70 and can't unlearn 50 years of American marketing. He believes he's of Irish heritage and has traveled to Ireland a few times in recent years, but get this "...has NEVER TAKEN THE TIME TO VISIT...

Go figure! One of the best beers I ever made was PRIOR to delving into the science of the process. I'd mashed in a cooler, sparged with a slotted spoon and a pitcher, fermented without temp control in a clear non-light protected carboy and lagered in two 16 quart soup pans with a loose fitting...

I have learned more from threads like this... great topic. First a story. One cold rainy night, while wandering the streets of Dublin a few years ago (airline pilot on a layover) I happened into a pub and ordered a Beamish Stout, a bowl of bean soup, a healthy chunk of brown bread & a few...

:pipe:I find people's tastes ranging towards more bitter all the time. Nonetheless I recently gave my local water treatment guy who gives me raw water for brewing a bottle of a brown ale in thanks for helping me obtain chloramine free brew water. It was a 10 gallons batch with 2 oz of magnum...