Recent content by dformed

tried this recipe again with a "new brewing partner" and some Hatch Chiles added at flameout with the final hop addition to try to add to the bittering effect. used 1lb. chiles. on un-fermented tasting gave a definite spicy aftertaste, but the whole thing was so sweet it's hard to know what...

one of my next two brews will be a Hatch Chile Pale Ale. I already have a base recipe in mind (wcarter1227's 15-Minute Cascade Pale Ale https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f66/15-minute-cascade-pale-ale-210253/) and I already have the chiles (roasted and in my freezer from last year's batch). My plan...

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I did 2z and it was good. just popped a bottle of this (a day early! *gasp*) and it's good, but with those bittering hops missing i don't think you can add too much hop otherwise. It comes out VERY light (in terms of flavor), and a little on the sweet side (granted I used more extract than...

part of the problem is the supply at my LHBS. if I could get that Lager extract, I'd use it and double the hops so I'd still get some effect in a short boil. I don't really like the idea of using a hopped extract kit, but I'd consider it if it would yield an acceptable bittering in a...

I know this thread's been dormant for a while, but for the sake of posterity and net searchers... A local nano-brew here does a beer that uses nettles for bittering. Legally, they have to include hops to sell something as "beer" but they include the legal minimum and do the rest with nettle...

Since I'm going for a 15-minute boil here - so I can brew a small beer while a larger one is mashing - a partial mash would defeat my purpose. Unfortunately, it looks like a Cream Ale isn't going to work for this project! I'll do some more research, talk to my LHBS, and see if I can come up...

I'm getting ready to build a mash tun and start doing all-grain, but I recently found a 15-minute pale ale recipe, brewed it, and was impressed. Best part: successfully made Beer in 2 hours FLAT... and then made a bigger red ale. The short boil worked because of a technique called Hop...

Brewed this three weeks ago. used 7# Light LME, 1# Crystal 55 (all my LHBS had), and cascades at 8.4%. Wyeast British Ale yeast. OG appeared to be 1.049 (a little low, but i'll live). tasted pretty good a week and a half ago, when i measured the grav @ 1.015, a little two-dimensional, but I...

Cooked this up three weeks ago. pitched with Wyeast American Ale. Added 1lb. corn sugar to push up the ABV (i broke my hydrometer picking it up to measure! Borrowed one that maxed out at 1.060 on this. suspect it was closer to 1.070). also used a full 7# of amber LME instead of 6.3...