Recent content by seanybubbles

I did a smash apa with galaxy and it came out tasting very similar to grape juice. I didn't enjoy it at all. Galaxy is best used with other hops in my opinion....

Noticed this as well. Maybe use the book as a guideline. Best bet would be to use your brewing software to get closer to the right numbers....

I'm inclined to think it's more what you ate than what you drank.

This is my favourite yeast. Makes a great red ale.

I buy all my specialty malts online and my base malts, hops and yeast at my lhbs. Lhbs doesn't have a great selection of malts yet otherwise I would buy everything there. It would cost quite a bit to ship a 55lb sack of two row....

Wow! That's super cool!

Headys is a great beer, but not at 15$ a can. It usually sells for 8$ a can in restuarants and bars in northern vermont. It is almost always available in establishments, never in stores. It's good, but vermont has so many great beers!

I usually use 1/3rd more grain when I go no sparge. Set your mash calculator to "0" for sparge for your mash volume. I tried this method to save time. It didn't, as it took longer to heat the larger mash volume all at once. Good luck!

+ fiddlehead, otter creek, ect. Ect

A clone of this recipe was in a recent issue of byo...maybe 6 months ago.

Edworts house pale ale. Very quaffable and both beer snobs and bmc drinkers will enjoy this one.

I know it's a homebrew cliche, but kegging saves so much time. Bottling was not a part of the hobby I enjoyed so I see it as a worthwhile investment. I only recently gave away all my bottles to a new homebrewer as I thought I might want to bottle some brews. I just use growlers now.

What I meant to say is I'm sure the beer will be great anyways.

I'm not sure you'll be able to taste the difference between 1.013 and 1.009. Not a huge difference...

Warrior is a great bittering hop!