My First Bottle Bomb

By Nicholas Sarwark | August 4, 2013 |

August 3, 2013.  A day that will live in infamy in my house.  After over 15 years (off and on) of brewing, I had my first bottle bomb. My peach weizenbock had some suspended peach bits in it when I bottled.  I was already using a higher than normal amount of priming sugar to get…

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Peach Weizenbock and Bozenweiss Raspberry Wheat

By Nicholas Sarwark | June 19, 2013 |

I made a batch of The Brew Hut‘s Bozenweiss Raspberry Wheat a couple of weeks ago. The recipe is as follows: 6 lbs. Wheat LME1 lb. Crystal 10L (Briess)12 oz. Flaked Wheat8 oz. Acidulated Malt1 oz. Tettnanger (60 minutes)1 oz. Tettnanger (30 minutes)Safbrew WB-06ADD RASPBERRY PUREE (3.1 lb. Can) AT “HIGH KRAUSEN” (the second or…

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