What Time Is It FReepers?
It’s Beer Thirty FReepers! Time For The Homebrewing / Wine Making Thread #2 June 8,2012
It’s Beer Thirty FReepers! Time For The Homebrewing / Wine Making Thread #3 June 15,2012
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Used to make lots of beer when I lived along the Yukon, sold all my stuff when I moved so I haven’t restarted yet.
My favorite? I made 2
I did a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale clone recipe of which I found in Brew magazine. It was EXCELLENT! I still have the recipe card somewhere in storage.
Also did a Sam Adams clone that was to die for. Recipe also found in Brew magazine.
If there is one i too would like to be on any homebrew list,
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Add me please..have a hefe and 2 meads going..(Hefe is ready to drink.. :-)
Been thinking about doing a cherry wine with all the early cherries getting ready to drop. Now is a great time to get free cherries from people wanting the trees cleaned up. Go you your local classifieds and look for this free fruit.
Free wine is the best wine. If you have not yet had a cherry wine you are missing out. ;)
This Liberty Cream Ale just started bubbling the air lock! I pitched the yeast at about 2:30 pm today. I know the dry yeast is a fast starter and fast fermenter. But this was fast! About 5.5 hours. I hope it attenuates well. It could be the late Extract addition I did. Lots more sugars available for the yeasties to feed on. I love it because the air lock is bubbling.
Messed up a little.
Did 3 fermentation's and ended up adding too much water. I added 3 lbs of honey last which caused some foaming so I drained 2 quarts which caused my dry hopping hops to stick to the sides of my bucket above waterline nullifying them.
Rats!
Other than that it tastes really good right out of the bucket before bottling and calculates to be about 15%!
Last batch I added 2.5 lbs or so of light malt extract which gave it a caramel flavor. Did not add that this time and added 5 lbs of honey instead of 2 lbs which gave it a much milder flavor.
Success!
Bottled it a week earlier than planned due to being thirsty.
This will be quite good but next attempt will be even better. Myself and my friends will be quite pleased and the next batch will be even better.
I really should think about dry hopping with hops in a bag.
I confess - These Brewing threads have tweaked my cuerosity about this hobby. And it has lead to more than a few web surfing occasions.
One casual observation so far . . .
The divide between the Glass Carboy vs. Better Bottle camps is roughly equal to the divide between FReepers and DUmmies . . .