Recent content by jbeer32

  I actually am not familiar with brewing tv.  Are you BJCP certified?    For the throwdowns, the boss of this site picks a food ingredient or two and posts the rules for each one.  Then, whomever wants to participate creates a dish with said ingredient(s) for the current throwdown and posts...

  Awesome, I am an avid homebrewer myself.  I know you are new to the site but every month there are cooking contests called 'Throwdowns'.  Last year a professional brewer from this site named wheebz started a monthly homebrew contest like the throwdowns called brewdowns.  You should check it...

From one Minnesota Jeremy to another, welcome to the best website on the internet

Welcome from Coon Rapids.  You will soon find out that this is a great website with endless help and advice from whomever you want it from

  Wheebz,   Where is the review for my smoked beer?

Sigh... My fears have been realized.  Opened up a bottle yesterday after sitting in a warm room for 2 weeks and Flat.  Just the faintest hiss when popping off the bottle cap.  Reading beer forums on the internet tells me that it can take months to properly carb up a bottle conditioned big beer. ...

Bottled. I hope that the yeast can carb this. I have never made a beer before over 10% and am worried that they may be too tired to do so. We will see

  Here is my recipe:   Smoked Rye Pale Ale   Grains 5 lbs Briess Cherry Wood Smoked Malt 5 lbs Briess Rye Malt 3 lbs Weyermann Munich type 1 2 lbs Crisp Maris Otter 8 oz Carapils Dextrine 8 oz Muntons CaraMalt 4 oz Weyermann CaraRye 8 oz Flaked Rye 1/2 lb Rice Hulls Hops         1.  1.0...

  Final Gravity at 28     Racked on top of Organic unsweetened cacao nibs

  Thanks a ton.  I have never heard of this product before and went and got some on my way home from work and looks like it is working.  This morning I woke up to a terrible mess that took a good hour just to get it acceptable to wait until I got home to finish the cleanup.  It was horrible.  I...

  these will not affect the beer?  looks like I have to go to the brew store after work to get some tomorrow       Before I planned on going to bed, I checked on the beer and this was spewing out of the flask and I had to change it again.  At this rate, my 5.5 gallon batch will soon be down to...

  I am not exactly sure what you are asking here   Not sure what to do here.  This is the second time I have changed out my blow off container because it keeps filling up with blow off wort.  The first time, the 2L Erlenmeyer flask was up to the neck with blow off wort.  In this 2L flask, I put...

    actually, the corner of my basement it is sitting in right now is currently at 60 and is throughout the day, dipping to around 58 at night

Was going to post this yesterday after I brewed it but got too busy cleaning up and time slipped by and had to go to bed.  This is the biggest beer I have ever done so I hope it turns out     Mash temp a tad low, was looking for a bit higher but could not really get much more in the mash tun...