Recent content by JWStockton

Yessir! I assume everyone here has seen it... i netflicked the word beer.

For what its worth I just watched this awesome documentary on the beer industry. It seems the big beer companies bring out more and more variations whether they sell well or not in order to take up space at the grocery store because even if they lose a little money on a crappy selling beer...

I'm in the army as well! REALLY looking forward to the homebrewers gathering in feb So i can see how real homebrew tastes!

Hello all from south Tacoma! I just started brewing 3 weeks ago so I'm still working out my basics. I have an ale in the bottle and three batches in the primary. Looking forward to attempting to improve my brews. Which at this point shouldn't be hard since my beers taste like poo right now lol!!!!

I read that thread earlier but i couldnt see anyone who used 2lbs of dme and their report but I'm going to mix it up today and see what happens without any hop additions. I googled the ibu of the finished kit and I found it was 32. Surely enough to handle the amount of malt that's there...

I just bought a coopers english bitter beer kit and two lbs of breiss pilsen dried malt extract (at the advice of the lhbs employee)... Now that I've been reading I'm worried that my beer will come out to malty without a hop addition. Has anyone brewed this mix before? Is there any rule of thumb...

Ok... i got my hydrometer... measuring 1.022. The OG should have been about 1.055 according to the recipe calculator and FG 1.015 . Its at 64° now (I also bought some temp strips) so I'll leave it alone for another week...

Thanks for the replies guys. I'll pick up another bucket tomorrow as well and start something with fresh ingredients to rebuild my confidence if i have to wait a month while this one becomes drinkable....

Both cans hissed when i opened them, i figured that was from the hot water they were soaking in. The brew is dark amber. The wort tasted very bitter but i figured that was from the 40 ibu pils and the half oz of chinook.

Ive been trying to go about it as cheaply as possible and havent bought a meter yet... (only my 3rd batch) i will buy one tomorrow and measure it though.

I just brewed up an ale (we will call it an ale) from two 3.3 lb cans of liquid malt extract (one light malt unhopped extract one pilsner hopped 40 ibu extract) and one lb corn sugar. I did a 60min boil of .5 oz chinook pellets in the 2 gallons of wort and then cut it to 5 gal with cold water...

Hey all, im looking to brew what i hope will be a stout (an old old can of stout extract and 3 lbs of wheat dme i have) with chinook. Its the only hops i have on hand, will a half oz for 60 min be too much bitter for a stout? I was toying with maybe only adding it in the last 15 to retain some...

Ok so i'm brewing my first batch of beer. Put it in the fermenter (a 6gal bucket with a spigot) 6 days ago. It was a can of hopped honeybrown extract and 2.5lbs of dried breiss wheat extract. It stopped bubbling a couple days ago and today i turned on my spigot and drew up a pint. I tasted it...

Hello from the great Pacific Northwest! My neighbor upgraded his operation a while ago and gave me his first setup (two five gallon buckets with all the bells and whistles and some ingredients)... So i just took christmas leave last week and on a wild hair mixed up a batch of beer (thanks to...