Brewed a NB Dry Irish Stout extract with grains kit today, seemed to go well, 1.052@70F SG (I added a scoop of sugar to boost the SG a tad from the expected 1.042ish).

Also bottled my first all grain, an Imperialish Stout (I had bad efficiency and my SG was only around 1.075 so while it's stronger than a stout it's a pretty wimpy imperial).

Here's a picture:

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Brewed a Black IPA from NB extract with specialty grains last sunday, just took a test sample and man this is hoppy, pretty good though, current reading is 1.030 so should ferment down some more, I am a doofus and didn't write down the SG it was in the 1.075 range as per the kit's data at NB.

Fixing to bottle the AG Imperial Stout I brewed on 02/01 and tonight or tomorrow I will brew the Extract w/grains Dry Irish Stout from NB, I still have that AG Doppelbock waiting but I want my...

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02/01 - so I did my first AG on 02/01 an Imperial Stout from NB. Didn't get great efficiency, 1.076@74F was my SG.
02/20 - I just put this into a secondary and took a sample, 1.028@64F seems high. It's currently sitting at 6.5% ABV.

02/16 - I also put 5 gallons of the Welch's into secondary, and I bottled the rest as I would beer, using priming sugar and I sweetened a couple bottles with splenda too.

02/16 - Put up 3 gallons of Ed Wort's apfelwein, but I...

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So batch 3 (Northern Brewer American Wheat) was bottled tonight.

I also had some ribeyes I wanted to marinade so I cracked open a bottle of batch 2 (Coopers Irish Stout) and 2.5 (Mr Beer WCPA) and used most of the MrBeer and a some of the Stout for it.

The MrBeer doesn't taste so hot yet, but that's ok I won't touch another one for at least 3 weeks, but the Stout, I am LIKING this one. I could see making this again!

So here are pictures of the bottled...

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Took a sample, 1.050@68F
OG 1.110 @ 76F
8.1% ABV and still going, though fermentation seems to have slowed, might go ahead and pitch another yeast slurry to revitalize it this weekend if it doesn't drop much/any between now and Sunday.

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