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So I am the latest victim of the Sorachi Ace dill-bomb. I brewed up a Belgian pale a few weeks ago and did some late additions of Sorachi Ace looking for a bit of lemony goodness. I remember being fairly pleased with the lemon aroma I was getting from the hot wort as it was cooling but I never...

Hey all, I'm a hopefull first time grower/harvester this year. I have 2 second year plants; a Hallertauer and Willamette. So far the Hallertauer is doing really well and I have some decent cones forming. My Willamette however, has suffered a set back. It started out really strong and...

So today I brewed my second all grain batch, using my cooler mash tun for the 3rd time (had one PM before my first AG). My 2 previous mashes had efficiencies of 67% and 71%. So for my third time doing a mash, I figured i would shape my grain bill around 70% efficiency. Here is my recipe...

So my second batch was a very simple American Pale Ale that tasted great after 2 weeks in the bottle. I noticed it was a bit over carbed but I figured that I had maybe just added a bit too much priming sugar (4 gallon batch, 99 grams of corn sugar). However every bottle I've opened (about 5)...

Last weekend I bottled my second batch of beer and my FG was lower than expected. I used Wyeast 1332 and had an OG of 1.051 and an FG of 1.009. According to my calculations this is 82.3% attenuation and the listed average on the Wyeast site is 67-71% for this strain. Here is my recipe...