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(sorry for blurriness) The beer for my wedding. 10 gallons will be the final volume; 3 gallons went into that little bourbon barrel, the remaining 2 gallons from that carboy went into a little 2 gallon carboy. The other half of the beer is still in primary fermentation. It's a huge imperial...

Be sure to use a pound of pellet hops in your boil. Hop soup is good for you. Seriously, what led anyone to believe that a triple IPA was a good idea? 25 lbs. of grain, 16 oz. of hops in the boil. I'm brewing it with a friend for a competition (yea, a bunch of triple IPAs, the judges mouths...

*raises hand* Third batch now I've done that is just a glass of green apples. Grrr. I'm aware the cause, just can't seem to get that yeast happy enough. Next time I'm adding actively fermenting beer directly to my carboy, in addition to pitching yeast. And shaking the absolute hell out...

I decided to calculate my efficiency the long way, actually looking up each and every extract efficiency and moisture number from each maltster of each grain I used yesterday, and it took almost an hour just to find the numbers. Cargill's are hidden pretty well, and I had to find Weyermann's...

Anyone going? I'll be pouring for Troegs, come say hi.

Maybe it's just how I am as a person, but I get a little bored doing things how everyone else has done them for years and years. Have you ever just thrown the recipe guidelines out the window and made something totally ridiculous? Was it good or bad?

This beer is already in the primary, so it's a moot point, but I want to see if anyone can tell me why this happened so I can fix it if it happens again. I was brewing the all-grain version of my blonde ale for the first time, the grain bill looked like this: 7 lbs. Pils 1 lb. wheat 1...

SkinnyShamrock's Outbound Oatmeal Stout- my first AG! 7 lbs. Munich 1 lb. Crystal 80L 1 lb. melanoidin malt 18 oz. (standard container) "Minute" oats .5 lb. dark Munich .5 lb. chocolate malt .5 lb. roasted barley Mash for 60 minutes at 154* Start with roughly 6 gallons of wort...

...an oatmeal stout. It is stout-a-licious. Awesome chocolate/coffee flavor, already has a really nice mellow mouthfeel, just needs a bit more time to age and carbonate. Almost as good as Samuel Smith's. I will be posting the recipe in the database...this one's a keeper! Cheers!

I did an oatmeal stout yesterday with a friend from work, it was easy as pie. I borrowed a cooler mash/lauter tun from another co-worker, my friend and I figured out strike water temp, milled some grain, and went at it. Hit the mash temp I wanted perfectly, mashed for one hour...

A fellow employee of mine is going to show me the all-grain ropes, and he and I are going to have a brew day at the brewery (nothing like 200 degree water, nearly unlimited grain and hops, a yeast lab, and hose-able floors for brewing!). He is going to do an imperial stout with Belgian yeast...

I can tell I'm going to like my job. I start Monday. Of course, the whole living on my own thing is kind of terrifying. Good thing Harrisburg is cheap to live in, because breweries don't pay much! Also, kinda depressed that I spent $100K on a Music Recording Technology degree...and then...

...and the Eagles made the playoffs. I'm as big a fan as any, but I don't think they'll get very far, unless they play like they did tonight. Discuss.

Ok, so I made a hybrid APA/Irish Red, here's my recipe: -5 gallon batch, 2 gallon boil -Steeped 8 oz. Crystal 80 and 2 oz. roasted barley for ~30 minutes while water heated, removed once temp. went over 160* -Added 2 lbs. light DME, boiled, added .5 oz Centennial -At 15 minutes left, added...

The first stout I've ever tried and liked. I therefore recommend it to everyone. That is all.

Extract: 3 lbs. light DME 2 lbs amber DME .5 lb Crystal 80L .25 lb roasted barley Hops: .75 oz Centennial pellet, 10.5AA -While bringing 2 gallons of water to a boil, steep crystal 80 and roasted barley in a muslin bag -Remove the bag when boiling, remove from heat, add 2 lbs light DME, return...

Extract: 4 lbs. light DME .25 lbs. chocolate malt .25 lbs. black patent malt Hops: .5 oz UK Fuggle pellet, 5.1AA .25 oz Amarillo leaf, 7.0AA -While bringing 2 gallons of water to a boil, steep choc. and black patent malts in a muslin bag -Remove the bag once water is boiling, remove...

...live without a wort chiller? Amazing. I didn't even buy a counterflow one or even a double coil one, just a standard single coil jobber. Took 2 gallons of wort from 212*F to 80*F in about five minutes. Freaking crazy. That is all. Carry on.

So I finished college (only took me 5.5 years...I transferred schools), and my parents got me a gift certificate to the LHBS, Keystone Homebrew. I need some opinions on what to buy, because there's so much I could buy with it. Opinions?

So my roommates and I made some standard, straight-up honey mead. 13 lbs. of honey, yeast nutrient, some Irish moss, topped off with bottled water, and Lavlin champagne yeast. OG was 1.110, we racked to secondary at 1.004 in the middle of September, and it was .998 earlier today when we racked...