Recent content by dawgman

Cubes. Definately cubes. More depth of flavor, less wood.

Yeah. By the time it was all said and done i had added 4 oz of hungarian cubes you'll have to let me know how the old ale goes.

Drinking a bomber of this right now and it is fantastic. Smooth vanilla oak, almost a hint of white wine oak flavor. I bottled at the beginning of october 11. Love this beer.

what was your mash temp and ferm temp?

+10 gallons 2646

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Was planning on a week of dry hop. If I don't get it bottled by Sunday though the family is coming to town and I will lose my chance for another two weekends to get it bottled.

Should I wait until my dry hop period is up before cold crashing? Or is it ok to overlap my cold crash and dry hop times by 2 days?

Krausen has dropped and so I took a hydro sample. 0.99. Wow... I was just hoping to get to 1.01 or so. On the upside it did taste fantastic and the yeast profile is making its way through the hops. Can't wait to get this dry hopped and bottled to see what it is all about.

IBU's were close to 200. Most were from the first wort hop and are really smooth bitterness. That being said the beer was too sweet for my taste. The bitterness lingered on the back end but were completely overwhelmed up front by the sweet malt flavor. I felt it would have been better dried...

a teaspoon and a half to a 6 gallon batch.

tonight and yeast and krausen was flowing out of the airlock....wow...unintended consequences.

Will do. Hey you wouldn't happen to be in Central Missouri with a handle like "osagedr" would you ?

what was the mash temp?

24 hours after adding Beta AE the brew is back at high krausen and chugging away. Pretty happy so far.