Recent content by brendonrichey

I'm creating a recipe for a lemon meringue IPA. What hops and grains might help in this? Would lactose sugar give me the cream taste that I want on the end? Should flavoring be done on boil an secondary? I'm really interested in seeing this one through.

It's day three of fermentation and it might be a little soon to worry but my Porter has a slight booze taste. No fruitiness just booze. I've read that this can be caused by high fermentation temperatures, but maybe I should wait longer? Is this a common rookie mistake and patience is a virtue or...

Just got done brewing it, I set it up in the fermentor with a blow off which I'll switch to an airlock in three days. My OG was at about 1.080 just under 1.081. So I'm hoping for about a nine percenter as a lot of the posts I have read where the beer had a high OG usually came in at about 8%-9%...

Hello All, I have "helped" friends brew beer usually during the mashing phase. I also have read a couple articles on how to begin brewing. But finally, I have chosen to begin brewing. For my first batch I bought a kit from the Brooklyn brew shop. I also bought a hydrometer and other...