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I was feeling a little inspired by the NCAA tourney and decided that tomorrow morning will be a brew day. A cider and an IPA. My last IPA came out poor (it was a midwest Furious IPA clone). At the time I was an extract brewer and was only able to boil 2.5 gallons. Since then my equipment...

I was feeling a little inspired by the NCAA tourney and decided that tomorrow morning will be a brew day. A cider and an IPA. My last IPA came out poor (it was a midwest Furious IPA clone). At the time I was an extract brewer and was only able to boil 2.5 gallons. Since then my equipment...

A piece of advice, keep a good brewday notebook. My story. I brewed up a wonderful APA with citra and amarillo. I'm down to my last six, so I was getting ready to brew this again and went to my brew notebook and noticed I only had written down the grains I had used and no other...

I've been trying to find a solid American Amber Ale partial mash recipe, but haven't had much luck. I have the ability to mash about 5lbs of grain. If anyone could point me towards a good recipe I would be extremely grateful! (I'm running low on homebrews and need to brew soon!)

After reading DeathBrewer's thread on easy stovetop partial mashing, I've decided to take the next step and move toward partial mashing. However, I still have some left over ingredients for an extract brew. I want to split up the extract for my first couple partial mash brews, but still want to...

Just finished up my third brew, the furious IPA kit from Midwest. :mug: Everything went pretty well this morning but I have a few questions. First, I took a hydrometer reading and got a reading of about 1.032. I used 9.3lbs of LME - something seems really off here. My guess is that the...

Working on a brew right now. Steeped my grains for 30 minutes, removed them, and then put the wort back onto the heat. Added about 4lbs of LME while blending it in with a whisk. Now as I'm approaching boil I'm noticing lots of little white chunks floating around in the wort. This is my third...

As I prepare in my first foray into tweaking recipes I've decided to come here for some advice. I recently ordered the Amarillo Pale Ale kit from Midwest brewers. The recipe is as follows (all extract). 6lb Gold LME 1lb Light DME 8oz carapils and 8oz Caramel 40L steeped for 30 minutes...

So I caved and had to give one of my first homebrews a test, even though it has only been bottled for six days. I made an Irish Red from a Midwest kit and it is fabulous even this early. A little under-carbonated, but that is to be expected. Very smooth with a nice toasty malt taste to it. A...

Last Wednesday I brewed a Belgian Wit and used Wyeast 3944. I had heard this was a pretty vigorous yeast so I rigged up a blowoff tube just in case things got out of control. I started it at 66 degrees for a few days and had some light activity and then moved the fermentor from my basement to a...

Just wanted to say hello. Have been reading the forum for a few weeks now and just brewed my first batch last Thursday. I've been bitten by the bug and have ordered another fermenter and ingredients to brew up my second batch! I just wanted to say thanks for all the helpful advice I've read.