^^ thanks Punx Clever, your recipe looks great!!  Once this batch is all drunk up, we'll try it.
Sweet cider label too!

Syphoned the porter off into the secondary fermenter today and added 4 oz espresso beans, lightly crushed and soaked in homemade early stage vanilla (ie vodka with vanilla beans) to sanitize.

Soooooo many weeks until I get to taste it....the anticipation!!!

Received four ball lock kegs, a co2 tank, regulator, manifold and gas/beer lines today!  I'm pumped!  

Have a batch ready for kegging/secondary fermentation......any tips or suggestions?

About half our bottles carbonated, the ones that did are amazingly good. We're going to use the same recipe and mind it better this time so we don't kill off the yeasties.

Quote from: rgramjet on March 21, 2011, 04:23:56 PM
Received four ball lock kegs, a co2 tank, regulator, manifold and gas/beer lines today!  I'm pumped!  

Have a batch ready for kegging/secondary fermentation......any tips or suggestions?

30PSI for a week... or 3 hous of rocking/shaking the keg vigorously.  I usually attach CO2 and watch TV while I roll the keg with my foot.

The beer will be carbonated from the secondary fermentation in the keg, no? 

My plan is to mix the wort with a priming sugar solution then dump it in the corny keg. 

5 gallons of All Malt Amber, Kegged!

That can work... but then you have all that new yeast in the bottom.  I prefer forced carbonation.

Update.

The Magic Hat #9 didn't carbonate, flavor was spot on and tasty. It uses DME for the carbonation food and I think it's a shitty method. Corn sugar going forward.

Did a double IPA, Hop Head IPA - really good, really hoppy. Almost like a belgian IPA. It didn't last long.

Single IPA just hitting the fridge now. Gonna be a good weekend.

Racer 5 clone in the fermenter, added the dry hop last night.

I've got a Nut Brown Ale kit that I am going to add some stuff to make a honey brown. Suggestions?

Apple wine.  Very simple recipe.  Can't wait for the rest of it.  This was a little extra on a smaller bottle that fermented without the help of yeast.  The rest has been going strong for over a week now using Lalvin D47.

JM

Hefeweizen bottled!  It may end up being a little sweeter than planned, which is fine by me & my giant sweet tooth, but not as fun for Mr. AJ...

My apple wine is still bubbling away, after two weeks, still rolling the bubbles out!

JM

I always let my ciders go for a month.

Anyone have a good online source for hardware (taps, taplines, drains, etc)?

www.austinhomebrew.com, morebeer.com, or northernbrewer.com.

Ebay is also your friend.  I picked up a secondary co2 regulator for 15 bux... brand shiney new.