Recent content by Froghoppy

Engineer for sure. Locomotive engineer anyway. Got a masters in horn blowing and a minor in homebrew.

Well cracked open a bottle today and I gotta say it's way better then I could have hoped. My taste just before bottling had good flavor but kinda on the bitter end so with a little anxiety and crossed fingers my first bottle tasted great! Well balanced, smooth finish and no off flavors. Carbed...

That makes sense about the dry hopping adding aroma and not so much bitterness. So I think I will go ahead with the dry hop addition tho scaled back for the batch size this time. Not a lot to be done about it now anyway I suppose . Hope it's not too bad but will update in 5 weeks or so when I...

5 lb marris otter, 1lb Carmel crystal 20l and .5 Brown malt. My hop schedule: .4 Columbus @ 45, .4 Chinook @ 20, .4 Columbus @ 15 then 10 min hop stand @ flameout .8 citra, .8 Chinook .8 columbus. Then dry hop after 10 days with 2.0 citra. As I said in first post these hop amounts were for the 5...

Hi all, newbie here. On my third biab 3 gal batch and all was going well. How ever during the boil hop additions I forgot to scale back my hops from the original 5 gal recipe and convert the amount to the 3 gal. So my hoppy Amber calls for a dry hop after 10 days in fermenter. So I'm thinking of...