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Bottled a 4-gal batch of my variation of the 090909 Barleywine yesterday. No haven't moved to kegging yet. I don't mind bottling at all. I've got a process that works for me. It's 5-weeks old, been at a stable gravity for 2 weeks now. And smells incredible, but still a powerful bitter...

I've got a small batch of Cider going 3 gal Motts apple juice 1 lb dark brown sugar 1 pack S04 Ale yeast Will stabilize and backsweeten with AJ concentrate then bottle The yeast are holding together in large globs moving up/down and the thing looks like a giant lava lamp.

Made a 4-gal variation of the 090909 Barleywine last Friday. My 3rd all-grain, and first barleywine. Small grain tweaking, and some hops substitutions. Bubbling strong since Saturday. Ended up quite happy with my mashing results. I had the recipe in Beersmith set at 61% efficiency (no, I...

Just started this one. 12lbs local wildflower honey 35oz Mountain Ridge Honey (darker than the local wildflower) 1lb buckwheat honey 2-cans Oregon Fruit Puree Sweet Cherry Puree Water to 6 gallons 2-pkgs Lalvin EC-1118 rehydrated in 80 deg water with some Yeast Energizer 5tsp Fermax yeast...

Archer Farms is the store brand for grocery items at Target stores. Found out that the local Super-Target's stock Archer Farms Orange Blossom and Buckwheat honey along with the wildflower (all $5/lb) I'm guessing Western Buckwheat. More molasses and less barnyard in the nose. I've got...

Yes, the Colonna deserves another new thread. Corked a batch of mead into bottles the other weekend. The only way that the Colonna could have made it easier, is if it supplied someone else to pull the lever. Loving this thing. My LHBS has the capper-only model for sale. It is downright...

Just bottle a 5-gal batch 5 gal Musselmans AJ 2lb honey 5tsp yeast nutrient and WB-06 yeast. OG-1.062 FG-1.000 1 week in primary and 2 in secondary. Dropped out crystal clear. Still had great apple smell, and didn't taste the bitterness reported about the WB-06 yeast. Maybe the honey...

Made the jump this morning on my first all-grain (boiling in the snow no less). Picked Yooper's Fizzy Yellow Beer for my first. Using the cheap/easy 10gal rubbermaid MLT I think I hit all my temps. My floating thermo apparently went stupid, so triple checked everything with my lab...

Started this last thursday 9/10/09 2.5 gallon Mussleman's Premium 100% Apple Juice (Not from concentrate, O.G. 1.051) 1 can Oregon Puree Sweet Cherry Puree 5 lbs local wildflower honey 3 tsp Fermax Yeast Nutrient 1/2 tsp Pectic Enzyme 1 pkg Lalvin EC-1118 Yeast S.G. - 1.120 Checked...

Finishing some research that I should have done last week before I bottled my Apfelwien. Apfelwien was crystal clear last weekend when I bottled. I bottled 1/2 my Apfelwien in beer bottles with Coopers Carb Drops. The other 1/2, I added 3 crushed Campden tablets, stirred gently (lots of...