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Thanks for the suggestion (yes I just followed the kit recipe blindly, but looking back it certainly is alot of bittering hops). I'll take another sample before bottling to see how the balance is and if a correction is needed, but how long would you dry-hop in the secondary fermenter, a week or two?

Yes I'm glad you mentioned that, because I just realized I had taken that sample 4 days after moving to secondary, so the yeast and trub moved over might have still been in suspension

You know...I think I took the sample 4 days after racking to a secondary fermenter, so the yeast and some trub could have been floating around and hadn't yet settled down again after being moved, which might make sense as to why it tasted less bitter when I took another sample a few days later...

Recipe was 9.9 LBS Light LME, 1 LB corn sugar, 80z caramel 30L, 4oz Carapils, 3 Packs of 1 oz Chinook hops, 1 0z pack of Columbus hops, 1 oz pack of Cascade hops Brew day notes: Put 6 gallons of Spring water into boil pot, heated water until 165 F and began to steep the caramel and carapils...

Hello all, In the process of fermenting my second batch of beer - which is a double IPA extract that used some specialty grains pre-boil. My wife and I did a hydrometer reading and tasted a sample yesterday (been fermenting 3 weeks now), and the beer has a sharp/harsh bitter finish to it. I...

Thanks for the reply! Honestly, it’s only my second batch and the white spots in the first picture looked like some pictures I’ve seen of the beginning of some infections, so I just wanted to get some opinions if it looks like normal progress from the yeast making moves or something I should be...

Hello all! New home brewer here, and I have a question for those with more experience…I’m brewing a double IPA extract (yeast: LD Carlson Apex Cultures San Diego), and in the morning of day 2 in the fermenter, my beer was forming some white spots that looked similar to other pictures I’ve seen...