Recent content by TastyMcD

You are forgiven. Tasty

I agree with the "go by taste" approach. In the end, that's all that matters. My experience with this beer (BCS JBA), and it's vast, is that at about 4-6 weeks from flameout the hops start to noticeably drop. The beer, by design, is supposed to be almost annoyingly hop forward when it's young...

Thanks for listening. Congrats for "getting it". Tasty

Of course I was just kidding. That beer has been amazing fun to drink and share. Tasty.

I apologize for ever making it. Tasty.

I don't really know if mash hopping contributes to the bitterness in a beer. I guess I'd have to make the same beer with mash hops and the same beer without mash hops and get a lab report on both beers. The 1.074 Imperial Janet's Brown Ale (Zymurgy) is 61 IBUs by formula using Promash which I've...

That Janet's Brown sure looked tasty.

Nailed me!

I list 153F on the recipe because that's what I mash this beer at. This temperature can create a fermentation challenge so I pay close attention to pitch size, aeration (multiple days), and fermentation temperature. I'll rouse the fermentor as the fermentation slows and raise the temperature to...