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you never know - you might have a nice light tasty beer on your hands. Only time will tell. Were you drinking while you brewed? I've made some stupid mistakes before when I drank and brewed - enough so that I don't drink and brew at the same time anymore! :cross:

Beer will not change color. It may clear due to sitting in the ferementer - over time yeast and other heavier particles will drop out (flocculate) and leave the beer clear. If you want to accelerate the clearing process, try using a fining agent. Gelatin is really simple to use and works...

Fellow HBTer's, I'm planning to brew my first double IPA soon. I put together a recipe that I think will work well but I'm unsure on the hop schedule and the yeast strain. I haven't had good luck with IPAs in the past so I'm soliciting help with this recipe. Last IPA I made tasted like hop...

true but Jamil has won the Ninkasi award twice as well as ton of BOS in different competitions. That gives creditability to his advice. Also, homebrewing is dependent upon experience and you find what works best - so having empirical evidence to justify your processes isn't really necessary.

ok where's the detailed review? It's been 3 years -- how's the top tier holding up?

I'm 6'1" man this is a pointless post -- not sure why I'm playing along.

wow that it really nice! I like it.

thanks for the advice. I've read some other threads and the consensus is that the krausen will protect the beer. We'll see -- I 'll update this thread over the next 6 weeks and let everyone know how it turns out. I'll definetly be using a blow off tube from now on!

anyone? I'm freaking out here.

So I brewed a batch of Jamil's Hazelnut Chocolate Porter on Saturday. I'm fermenting it in a 7 gallon plastic bucket. I've never needed a blow off tube before unless I was pitching on a yeast cake. I was suprised to go downstairs tonight to check on it and find that the lid had blown off the...

If your like most of us here, get ready to be engrossed in an awesome and rewarding hobby. Brewing great beer is a journey. Every time you brew, you'll improve somehow -- especially as you gain more knowledge. Good luck and welcome! :mug:

I'd do a full 1 oz of cascade in the primary.

square kettles are crazy! :tank:

Santa brought me 4 AG kits from morebeer.com! Already brewed up two of them.

+1 on the auto-siphon -- easily the handiest little tool you'll ever use in brewing. This is a necessity in my opinion. Using your mouth to siphon can result in bacterial contamination. Another thing I do in terms of sanitation is to empty my trash can, clean with bleach, then throw in a...

First thing I would do is look at your sanitation. I lost two batches due to infection earlier this year. Both batches had the sour taste you described -- not a good sour taste at all. I started using Iodine to sanitize everything, as well as a bleach solution on my kitchen surfaces and the...

This is the core reason for my post and the checklist I came up with. After listening to a lot of great brewers I've come to the conclusion that the details matter. Details in procedure, ingredients, and equipment are all important. For example, I listened to a brew cast where Jamil Z...

I will post some more soon. I've designed a few since then. :mug:

I was actually stirring because I thought it might increase efficiency by keeping the temp consistent throughout the mash tun or something like that. After researching a bit I see now that my thinking was wrong -- stirring is not necessary and I would rather have a more compacted grain bed to...

wow - I never checked this thread after I started it years and years ago. I'm glad to see a lot of people enjoyed the label. The beer came out great by the way. I ended up on a military deployment for a year and stored the beer in my parents basement. When I came back there were only a few...