Recent content by IanPC

Yeah, that's what I thought. I may just save the peels and brew a other day.

Is it ok to dry hop with orange bitter and sweet peel?

For a 5 gal boil I personally think your in for a blast of orange flavor. You could dry hop an ounce of bitter/sweet. (Sterilize in vodka). I think the coriander amount is too high, I've heard it can be overpowering if over used.

I tossed it all in, I used 1/2 oz sweet and 1/2 oz bitter orange peel along with 1/3 oz coriander to the boil. I didn't go bananas on the crush of the seeds just enough to crack'em up.

Grab a cutting board, rolling pin and get crushing, just be mindful of the amount you use.

Third Voyage is a vile beer and it should be it's last voyage. I'd rather have a bud light. Seriously.

I prefer Stone's ruination to dfh 90 or 60. I don't care for malt forward ipa's. just my taste.

So I've tried online website calculators, home made calculators and Beersmith 2.0. They all give different water amounts when all the info is plugged in exactly the same. Weather it's strike water, sparge water, or pre-boil volume. Can anyone show me the long way of finding the total water...

Note taking it is. After doing extract for a year I go lazy with notes. Looks like I'm gonna have to get me a note book,

I appreciate the above stated responses...as I have grown lazy to taking notes. That's the first thing I will be fixing. Also...it's only 1 batch.

I've done plenty of extract batches an had no problems fermenting as high as 72 and I never noticed any issues with the beer. I don't look to do that but it is what is. The problem seems to be note taking and attention to detail. As it turns out I was short on water. But there were still...

My readings: I didn't take a reading from my pre-pitched wort. I realized the mistake after I had pitched my yeast. So I took a few drops from my bottling bucket I used to drain the wort from my kettle in.

Sorry about the terminology...I didn't realize I called yesterday's gravity reading OG. I also should of said pre-boil gravity. I had heard it referred to as starting gravity as well. Also...I made a 1600ml yeast starter using WL California yeast. I don't think I would of dumped it, I was...

Good question...I just attempted a 1.070 and hit 1.050.

I agree. I just started AG an the first one I made was pre-designed and my brew day went great. My own design was .020 under target OG. With a lot of negligent mistakes on my part of course. I say find a recipe that is proven. Cheers!