Thanks for all the suggestions Borg. As for the brewhaus, not done yet but Had the handyman over today who is going to help me with building the bar and a fermentation chamber. I have an old mini fridge that I plan to encase in an elongated frame that will hold a few fermentation buckets, carboys et...

Hail Borg - well I am taking advantage of my Christmas gift of an AHA membership and have submitted to be in the AHA brew contest, mostly just for the experience and to get some feedback from judges (hardly anyone has ever tasted my brews and I want some feedback, pointers, suggestions etc). So - I ...

If it is not too late I would love to hop in on this again. Got some good knowlege (and beer) out of the last one.
Technically I guess I am Level 4, but I am still stovetop brewing/BIAB for time being.
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jeff

Thanks for posting this, looks yummy. Just had some of the Terrapin Moo Hoo a couple of weeks ago, this looks easy and tasty to do as one of next brews.
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Jeff

Good thing I saw this before I finished them all off (I hope) as I will pull one aside :) THings are still chaos around here, didnt end well with "handyman" so I am having to do a little bit of finishing work myself before we can even put carpet down and move things into future man cave an...

After a couple more weeks of aging, this brew is still very tasty, SWMBO still says it tastes like grapefruit juice, but she likes it and so do i. It is going fast and will have to be rebrewed once we get garage finished. I may try Phil's version this time and see what the difference is but all in a...

Howdy Borg - been busy, finally have garage to man cave/brew area under construction. I am providing some of the slave labor but handyman doing most of it. Finishing walls, killz and then paint. Put in decking in attic for storage and a door/ladder to get up there. Also getting rid of lots of stuff ...

Well I gave it a week or so and put one in the fridge. Holy Grapefruitness lol. The hop aroma and taste had the missus saying that it was almost like grapefruit beer. Very hoopy but not real bitter if that makes sense? I am waiting to try another one after the destruction/construction of the man cav...

So I want to try to replace the porter that met it's end in a rather unfortunate, gravity induced catastrophe and I found the recipe for Black Pearl Porter on HBT by BierMuncher. Appears to have some rave reviews, and I am going to try to follow all the steps both before and after (like checking pre...

Hard to say as I just had a quick pull on the hydrometer sample. It definitely had the aroma from dry hopping, could taste some hops in sample but definitely tasted some malt as opposed to the regular old "meh" that I get in that stage. I think this one may end up being one of the best I h...

I ended up at 1.012 or so, for a nice middle of the road 5.0% ABV. One thing I noticed, usually when tasting the FG sample, it is like "ehh, whatever" whereas I see some people saying their sample tasted great, just uncarbed. This one ACTUALLY tasted (and smelled, the Amarillo was heavenly...

Quick question for Phil or anyone who has done some wheat beers. What would you carb this to? I have had a gusher or two since moving to MD and not having a basement. I am going to start putting in 75F as the temp in the screwy brewer calculator instead of even 70F as things have been in the garage....

Several of our furry roommates witnessed my emotional outburst, but on the bright side - tomorrow I get to bottle the WheatToberfest recipe. Was going to be today but we had a veterenary emergency that took precedence. So tomorrow in addition to trying to get some errands run I am going to try to bo...

I am going to throw some Amarillo in to dry hop today while I am bottling a Pilsner IPA. Back from Colorado, and was trying to set up a new table in garage to keep LBKs and other things up off the floor. Tragedy (and gravity) happened and an LBK full of a Porter were a total loss. I will give ours a...

[ Jeff: Very misguided. Brewing while on a bike, either regular on stationary, is considered "risky behavior". Also, if you drip sweat into the wort it will alter the profile of the brew. :lol: But I had on my Ironman sweat bands I got while SWMBO did Ironman Louisville and MOST of the sw...