Recent content by bhummel

As a lover of Belgium brews, 37 IBU's seems too high for me.

I'm a bit shocked at how many people are even willing to purchase hops from China. Putting aside the idea concerning supporting your own countries ecomony and purchasing locally produced products, my biggest concern would be what China has sprayed on the hops as they grew them. China has been...

One of the reasons I'm looking forward to my visit back to Seattle come October :)

Haha Its funny this popped up today/tonight. As an American who dabbled in brewing in the states I used glass carboys pretty much exclusively. Always tended to be annoneyed with the lack of taps and the glass state (I did break one but by Gods blessing didnt cut the crap out of myself in the...

I've found an inexpensive option for precise temp control is a cheap 15-20 watt aquarium heater available at pretty much any pet shop. I picked mine up for about 15 bucks and have used it two different ways. The first way was directly in the actual fermenter which I think is the best option as...

Just an update, bottled it up on the 25th and i know its early but just tried it tonight and its hands down the best beer I've ever made. I have no doubt spending the extra money for the actual trappist yeast was worth it. Its darn close to the dubbel i bloody pay 80 bucks a carton for even at...

Sorry forgot to mention I used 3787 trappist yeast and ya by my calculations if i had thrown the candi sugar in at start I would have got 1070 but i wanted to wait till further into the fermentation to add it and thats why i got the 10 point bump after adding it. So it seems like you guys are...

Ok so I have a beligium themed beer that i put down on Aug 2 which consists of Wander Draught kit 1k Light dried malt 1k Dark dried malt 300g caramunich 3 500g carapils 20g styrian goldings at 15min and 600g candy sugar that I added at 1.030 on the 5th day OG was 1.060 when i put it down...

Ya Fat Tire is awesome, pretty much anything from New Belgium Brewery is great my fav being there Abbey.

If your gonna be around Kona check the Kona Brewery, good beer and good pizza at least it was when i was there last a couple years ago. http://www.konabrewingco.com/ Also from what i remember Hawaii had a pretty crap beer selection when compared to say Washington, Oregon or Cali, but maybe its...

Oh ok well ya heard of that, but I thought you guys were talking about blending prior to bottleing like in winemaking

Can and do you blend beers together? I know its done in wine making but have never heard of people doing it with beer. Tell me more.

Ya this sounds like a good idea although I'm going to steep some caramunich grains and add 600g homemade candi sugar as well.

Actually I love belgians and was trying to give a belgians taste to the dark ale which is why I chose that one. My whole reason for home brewing is so I can drink belgian type beer without having to spend the 70 bucks a carton that I've been spending for La Trappe Dubbel. :)

So just started getting into homebrewing and my first batch has been bottled for almost 2 weeks now and I'm looking for a little advice to improve on it. I did a Morgans Dark ale with 1 can of Coopers Light liquid malt extract, and safeale t58 fermented at about 72F for a week and then bottled...