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what's it like with crystal? i've quite honestly never been the hugest crystal fan and i felt the german hops in this recipe were part of its charm.

making my second batch of this today. first batch was simply excellent! only small difference is I dry hopped with 30g perle three days before bottling. very popular with my lager drinking friends.

i also went through a low efficiency stage; no matter what i tried. then i discovered no sparge brewing and my efficiency improved dramatically. look into it.

i'm not a regular poster here although i have lurked for a long time. a few years ago a stumbled upon this recipe and thought to myself, i should try this sometime. i bookmarked the page and quite honestly, completely forgot about it. last week, i was going through my bookmarks and found this...

ALWAYS keep the airlock in.

I brewed this a few weeks ago before: after:

I was having a few crappy, commercial beers with my brother-in-law one Sunday afternoon. I never really drank much beer because I considered beer to be tasteless and generally, quite bad. We somehow got into talking about why we were drinking this piss and why all beer tasted the same. My...

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Outside of brewing, I'm pretty uninteresting really.

It's too early to toss it now; keep it and drink it when it's ready. If it tastes crap after that, then pm me and I'll give you my address. Send them my way; I'll drink them! :-) Welcome to the world of homebrewing. You're gonna have a whole lot of fun!

Lol, I'm watching that as we speak! :mug:

Turned out very nice, I must admit. Had quite a few bottles already. Three of my favorite hops I usually use in IPA's.

So I eventually managed to get all the ingredients together and brewed this this past Wednesday. Everything went perfect; probably one of my most stress free and best brews to date. The OG was somewaht higher than the recipe, 1.062. On Thursday morning I checked on it but no bubbling from...

No point in adding more yeast. Measure the gravity; that will give you a good idea as to how fermentation's progressing. It's more than likely probable that the majority of the fermentables have fermented out already. Just put the beer in a cool, dark place and leave it there for 10 - 14 days...

I used about 8.5 lbs 2 row pale malt, 2.5 lbs carapils and 1 lbs caramunich. Cascade and Williamette @ 60 mins and Chinook @ 0 mins. So far, it seems to have turned out brilliantly although I've not really had much yet; just bottled it yesterday.

If I can't take my time on a brew day, I don't brew. There's nothing worse, imo, than rushing a brew. I usually get up quite early and make myself a good breakfast to get the energy levels up. I then go through to my brew area (garage), fire up my computer and put on some music. From there I put...

^ I was light-heartedly recalling how I started out trying to brew this recipe but due to an odd turn of events out of my control, I ended up brewing something completely different. Such is the beauty of brewing; no matter what, good beer is good beer.

After almost reading through this entire thread, I decided I would brew this. Went to the supply store and they never had vienna or crystal. I got carapils and caramunich instead. Then they didn't have any cascade either so I used williamette and chinook I had left over from a previous batch. In...

I love brewing. I don't want to make my time shorter. If anything, I'd like to prolong the time I have brewing. Brewing time is the only time I in my life that I feel like I'm accomplishing something.

I happened to have some extra malt and hops lying about so I decided to give this beer a try. Followed the recipe almost to a T except I didn't have any Vienna so I used Cara Pils instead. I'm a little disappointed that I only got an OG of 1.042 instead of 1.052 but it'll still be beer at the...