Brewcommune

I have an oatmeal stout that came out more like a sweet stout. Half is on vanilla bean an cocoa nibs. I have some barrel aged barley wine on tap too. I will probably bottle it all. I have been itching to brew both Red ale and american hefe/wheat.

I will brewing oatmeal stout, the recipe in the John/Jamil Styles book. I have been thinking of splitting into separate 5 gallon batches to hit one with cocoa nibs and maybe vanilla beans.

Have you used cocoa nibs? Any suggestions of how to do so properly and how much to use?

It seemed like OC makes you pay for both the ticket and traffic school. So, it might be cheaper to pay the ticket and be done with it. If your insurance will screw you for one ticket then one every 13 years might be to often.

I friend is joining us too. You may have met him at a brew day. See you there.

I'm a yes.

Pete/Oskaar always suggested cubes to me for mead. The slower, more linear absorption of the cubes can help with repeat ability (re-oakability?) too. That is, once you figure out how much time is required for that perfect taste it should be easier and less work to hit again.

Please keep posting these. I will get to make it eventually.

lexuschris wrote:Wood eye?

Peg leg!

I use some QDs for gas lines in a couple is instances. More Beer used to sell some that looked kind of like these http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid=84241&catid=743 . I think the female side has a cut off valve to close the connection when disconnected. The male side stays open. I...

One cool design I saw set it up so the collar was hinged and raised taking most of beer and co2 lines out of the way with it.

backyard brewer wrote:yeah, I already have one, I need another

Good, I was hoping Curtis didn't get hit by a bus.

I know, dude! What's ur take on that? As much as I support legal pot, I think that having the legal right to use it for recreation might cause some problems with kids under 18 and conservative republicans? Has anyone checked to see if they survived their heart attacks? Many of us conservative repub...

I don't like the charge for lesson thing either and am happy Eric has not charged that I know of. I have suggested that he have some kits of the demo recipe ready for sale. See it brewed, go make it yourself.

Interestingly enough though, it's perfectly legal to distill corn "fuel" and store it in jars in your fridge or liquer cabinet. Lol. I have seen some TV shows on alternate fuel vehicles where you could get a fuel distilation license. I think one may even use ethoanol in the process of mak...

When I looked into distilling it seemed like is still technically illegal to increase alcohol content this way, not that anyone will ever go after you for doing it.