| By Stucozzy on Sep 21st 2007, 3:43 am | Permalink |
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John, I hope you read this: Update: I've graduated from kits and have moved on to experimentation. Last weekend I bottled a Honey-Lake Ale. Used water from an artesian well, added wild honey to the boil, fermenter, and in conditioning, dry-hopped with fuggles pellets (also had fuggles in the boil; 60 and 30min)... and the exotic ingredient: 10 fresh mint leaves dry-hopped. Should be ready in a week or two. Unfortunately used the Muntons dry-yeast... wish I had a White Labs Cream Ale vial... As soon as bottling was complete I began a dark pumpkin ale. Really pleased with how it went: amber LME, pilsen light DME, steeped: cooked oatmeal, crystal 60, and a touch of chocolate. williamette (3.8%) pellet. cinnamon sticks, cloves, ginger... oh, yeah and 100% pumpkin puree. White Labs Cream Ale... which only started bubbling after 6 days when the heat came through northern michigan. Next time will try w/o the pumpkin and maybe w/o the spices. Looks like it could be a killer brown. Awesome. Cheers. Stu |
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| By Stucozzy on Jul 14th 2007, 1:25 am | Permalink |
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I just started homebrewing 6 weeks ago with a partial-grain kit (True Brew Pale Ale). It turned out fantastic, but I was surprised by it's rich copper color... not sure what was going on there, but it was truly a great beer. Last night I just did another True Brew (Irish Stout) and the airlock is bubblin' like a monkey. Very thankful for chemistry courses as cleanliness most likely saved my heiny from any other botch-ups. Hopefully I'm going to be able to start my first all-grain batch soon... excited to experiment on Holiday type ales... to be perfected by the winter season. cheers Stu |
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