Search results

  I used a USPS Priority Mail Regional Rate Box - A1 box.  Its dimensions are 10" x 7" x 4-3/4".  It had plenty of room for 2-12 oz bottles and packing material.  Plus, for me, it was about $1.50 less than it cost me to send 1 bottle via FedEx.  Order some for free at USPS store and you can just...

  Very active fermentation coming up thru airlock     Final Gravity clocking in at 1.009     Racked into secondary     Cacao Nib/Vanilla Bean mixture Mixture dumped in secondary After cacao/vanilla mixture has been in secondary for 7 days, coffee beans weighed out in sanitized bowl...

Well, here is my final post for this BD as Wheebz stated in the opening page with all my pictures again.  This will come in 2 posts because THP will not let me post all in one thread.  Here we go...       Teaser...     Yeast starter going strong     Vanilla Bean     Vanilla Bean chopped up...

Nice!  I am usually one of the first few to post my BD but have been insanely busy with trying to get my gardens in between all of this ridiculous amount of rain we have been getting up here.  It is hard to deal with super saturated soil.  Between that and work, it will be a little while before...

  Bottled!

It has been almost 2 full days since I added the coffee beans.  I just tasted a sample to see how 'coffeed up' it was and I was impressed.  I could taste vanilla, chocolate, and coffee notes.  Nothing overpowering but all there.  I am excited for this one.  Will be bottling in a couple of hours.

Looking good everyone!  Been busy trying to get the gardens in between all the rain we have been getting lately.  The cacao nib/vanilla bean mixture has been in for 7 days now so it is coffee time!     2.0 oz coffee beans in sanitized bowl     In the carboy.  Will taste after 2 days and if...

Finally, after 2 weeks fermentation is done clocking in at 1.009.      Racked into secondary     2 week old solution of cacao nibs and vanilla bean soaking in vodka     Empty jar after dumping into secondary.  Will let this sit for a week, then add coffee beans for a couple of days to taste...

  I have never made a yeast starter from dry yeast either.  I have also never rehydrated yeast prior to pitching a dry yeast packet either.  I just showed the packet in my teaser pic to show that is what I was using.  It is actually washed yeast from a recent previous batch.  I know most do not...

It was in my basement which is at 64 so I just moved it to the second level above ground to a room that is much warmer than the basement

This is the craziest fermentation I have had yet to date.  First, I had the krausen foaming up thru the airlock in an 8 gallon bucket with a 5 gallon batch.  Now, it has been 12 days since the yeast was pitched and the airlock is still bubbling away at a good rate.  I checked the gravity and it...

Congratulations Ozzy!  Thanks for the feedback and review wheebz.  Surprisingly, I usually add more hops to all my IPAs but since I had run out of almost everything that I grew last year except for a lot of Columbus, (I didn't feel that Columbus would have made a good 1 hop only for this beer) I...

This has never happened to me before.  The yeast are so active and the krausen got so big that a it is coming up thru the airlock.  A 5 gallon batch in an 8 gallon bucket.  I have had this happen many times with a 5 gallon batch in a 6.5 gallon carboy but not in an 8 gallon bucket.  It is...

I make all my starters with extra light DME

  What do you think of that new canned fast pitched wort?  Are they economical or is the ease of using them make up for their cost in your opinion?       LOL

  Spot on!  I call it chocolate vanilla coffee (CVC) though

Here we go again!   White CVC Oatmeal Stout     Doughing in       Temp not exactly where I wanted it to be but did not want to add too much hot water and make my mash too thin       Vorlaufing after a 60 minute mash       Wort in kettle, burner on       Wort at a full boil       Hot Break...

Vanilla Bean       Vanilla Bean gutted and sectioned       Cacao Nibs measured out       Vanilla Bean and Cacao Nibs in sanitized pint jar with enough vodka to cover, will place in a dark area to soak       Safale US-05 starter 42 hours into it, will place in fridge tonight to crash as brew...

White CVC Oatmeal Stout         Ingredients:     Grains: 7.0 lbs Briess Pilsen 2 Row 4.0 lbs Briess Pale Ale 2 Row 2.0 lbs Briess White Wheat Malt 2.0 lbs Flaked Oats Hops: 1.5 oz Columbus, 60 min Yeast: Safale US-05 Other: 3/4 cup corn sugar for priming 1 tsp Irish Moss,15 min Muntons Plain...

  Kinda looks like popcorn