Recent content by upslims

Thanks for the reply. I ordered a copy of Designing Great Beers and look forward to reading it.

Yeah thats what I'm doing now. It's how my question came about. I took a pound of American 2-row, 5 lbs of light extract, 1 lb of dry muntons wheat and used the leftover hops from my freezer (cascade, pearl and goldings) and then I pitched White Labs California Ale yeast. I was wondering what...

Hello, I'm fairly new to the homebrewing (got about 7 batches under my belt) and my question relates to determining style. I've been following clone recipes so far and all have come out awesome. I would like to start creating my own beers and am not sure what determines a style. For example...