Recent content by brew2enjoy

It's not for me, too hipster-ish. They never even show any of the brewers setups. They probably use hop extract kits on their stovetop (not that there's anything wrong with that)

Nice job, that looks awesome!

Looks like a nice beer! Just curious about the name, where you listening to NAS while brewing this beer? ;)

I understand what you are saying about the water/grain ratio. I guess the question then is not whether the ratio changes but mash thickness, not because of the qt/lb ratio but due to the grain density. In his case (and mine) the grain is condensed and does not come in contact with a portion of...

None taken, however I don't completely agree with you. If you want a certain mash thickness you will not achieve it without first filling the deadspace. For example say your grain bill is 15 pounds and you want a mash thickness of 1.25 qt/lb. If you don't compensate for the one gallon below the...

I'll chime in on this since I had the same question when I switched to a keggle mash tun. I also have about a gallon below my false bottom. In my mind, if I want the grain dilution to be 1.4 qt/lb there needs to be an extra gallon added first to compensate for the dead space, otherwise you will...

Yup as already stated, a lightbulb does the trick nicely. Just make sure you don't forget to put your control probe back in the freezer like I did. A single 60 watt bulb heated my beer up to 130 degrees before I caught it lol

I've brewed that recipe a few times. Did the toasted 2 row the first time. The second time I used victory in place of the toasted malt. It was good but I preferred the home toasted malt over the victory.

Meh, beer already has poison in it anyway. I say drink it lol

It looks like I may have dodged a bullet. Initial taste test was very nice. I'm getting what might be a little astringency from the hops basically cooking but it hides easily behind the high ibu's this recipe has. I'll give another update in a few weeks when it has had a chance to brighten a bit.

Hmmm. A session double IPA, I might be on to something :-)

+1 on lake walk. Best recipe I've brewed from hbt, and I've brewed a bunch of em. I'd add ed wort's haus pale ale to that list as well.

Just a quick update. Pulled the hops from the keg. Beer smelled fine, but didn't taste yet. It's been chilling down at 30 psi for 2 days. Just dropped it down to 12. I'll try to give it another day or so and give it a try.

That's what I was thinking lol

Chilling it down now. I took the hops out, at that temperature I'm sure they gave all they had to give. I may hit it with some fresh hops depending on how it taste