Recent content by IPAddict

Count me in, please & thanks.

If anyone was curious, here's the recipe. I have the recipe in the book I got with the kit, but I'll add to my log anyways, as mentioned. Here's the recipe: One thing to note, that I don't think I mentioned earlier; the kit and the book are sold separately. The book is just that, the book...

MTate37: Sounds good. I'll check out my LHBS and see what they have. Once I have those pieces, I'll go ahead and reread his sticky. progmac: Thank you very, very much for that compliment! :D And yes it does carry over. I have a very high attention to detail. It can be time consuming but the...

Awesome! I'm hoping I'll be saying the same thing. With that said, does any old one work, or are some better than others? Any recommendations are appreciated; I'd like to get a solid one that will last a long time. And you know what's funny is, I looked all over the kitchen for a turkey baster...

Pic 1: Shows 7 filled bottles, the empty carboy with trub left behind, almost done! Pic 2: Close up of the trub left behind. That's a Racer 5 bottle up next to it for size reference. Pic 3: Pic taken today, shows the sediment in the bottle. Would have liked to have much less, but that's...

Pic 1: mspaint of how the cap on a racking cane works (for those that don't know). The cap is the black piece at the end of the racking cane. there's space at the top, between the edge of the cap, and the cane. The bottom is closed. nothing gets in from the bottom of the cap (indicated arrows...

UPDATE: Ok, so I waited a full 4 weeks to let it ferment. Since I didn't want to risk contamination, I decided this was the better option, rather than taking multiple hydrometer readings over a few days. I'm glad I did this, I'll explain a bit further down. So I bottled on Wednesday...

Thanks for reading everyone, and thanks for the comments. Sorry I didn't reply sooner, but I've been pretty busy, and I forgot all about it. So here's a reply post, and I'll follow that with an update post of the bottling. Cheers! :mug: *Oh, I was gonna just bold each person's name, rather...

Thanks again for all the help. Did the brew about 2 weeks ago, just wrote up the thread for it. Check it out if you like. First Brew!

Shows the trub. Is that layering normal?

1st pic: Poured the wort into the carboy. 2nd pic: The hops and anything else filtered out. This pic shows how fine (or unfine) my strainer is. 3rd pic: Used the funnel to get it in. Go slow enough and it worked like a charm for me. Shows what the book called the one gallon mark. I was looking...

1st pic: Starting the boil. 2nd pic: Eyeballing 5ths of hops, since I don't have a scale. 3rd pic: Boiling now. 4th pic: Just added the 3rd 1/5th of the cascade hops, 2 more left. 5th pic: Boil's done.

Hey I just did my first brew! I wanted to get some feedback and I had some questions as well. I'm using a 1 gallon starter kit from Brooklyn Brew Shop, and I'm doing their Everyday IPA. I started a thread about some questions I had before I actually brewed: New to brewing, lots of questions...

That hop library (as you put it) sounds like a great side effect of brewing different batches. That would be nice to just brew with what you mostly have just on a whim. I'll look forward to that day. And $.23/beer is pretty sweet! It's nice to know down the line if you do things right, your...

What determines the cost, ingredients? How much of a difference is it? You can throw out specifics for the sake of example if you want. I'd be buying ingredients from a local homebrew shop, wouldn't the grains be priced per pound? Are hops sold the same way? I'm assuming yeast is sold by...