Recent content by passedpawn

I've used lime wedges in a berliner weisse with great affect. I wiped them down with starsan, then cut and dumped into fermentor. Made the beer awesome I thought. I'm guessing that lemon would have been nice too. I have a lemon tree in my yard, but oddly have never used them in any beer...

DON'T PROOF YOUR YEAST. You're just asking for problems. If the packet is a reputable brand and it's not 10 years old, it's going to be OK.

Also, stop re-using yeast until you get rid of your problems. If it's not obvious, you can't make good beer if you use yeast from a bad batch. I suggest you just cut open the yeast packet, dump right into your fermentor, close it and walk away. I do understand how appealing the idea of...

Your problem is likely sanitation. Hopefully you have starsan or similar. Boil everything that goes into the fermentor - water, hops (if applicable), dextrose. Of course, not the yeast :) Don't open that fermentor for 2 weeks. PERIOD. Throw away the kit yeast. Get some S-05. I suggest...

I'm growing chili's and habs now. Tons of green fruit on the chili's that I'm waiting on to turn red. I grew them from seed. They germinated in about 10 days (at least some of them did). I soaked the seeds overnight before planting. Not sure if that makes a difference. Can't tell you...

I've made several sour beers (flanders, oud bruin) that fermented over a year. But I'm assuming that's not what the OP is making :) The beer will be fine for months if there's no way for O2 to get in there. So, if you trust your airlock, no problem. If I was travelling for months, I'd put a...

Florida is great, and the area I'm in is just busting out with craft breweries. We must have 15 of them the smallish county I live in. You can ride your bike from one to another because they are all on, or very near, a bike path called the Pinellas Trail. Just fantastic. Uh yea, shrimp on...

Woot!

Passedpawn checking in from the US. So much great brewing ideas coming from the DU, thought I'd join and be in on the latest. Hope I can learn from you guys and maybe contribute something along the way. Cheers!

I'm interested in these taps. They look great.