First brew results!

So I learned a very valuable lesson, don't pop open a beer too early and if you do don't worry about any rough around the edges stuff, time will cure it.

My brown ale has been in bottles aging for 4 full weeks now. I've been popping one open every week. Today's taste test was very good, I think it's ready. I had another brewer try it out for me, he liked it also.

I hope the oak aged oatmeal stout I just finished bottling today turns out equally as good.

The newcastle clone I used was:

NutCastle Brown Ale

3.3lbs of Coopers light malt extract
4lbs of Alexander's sun country pale malt extract
2oz Carafa I chocolate malt
2oz British Crystal 30-37L
1oz Black Malt
Willamette Hop Pellets 4 HBU, 16 IBU
Kent Goldings Hop Pellets 2.2 HBU, 3 IBU
1tsp Irish Moss
1 Packet coopers ale yeast
3/4cup Priming Sugar
6 gallons of Ozarka water because I don't like the taste of the local tap water.

Glad to hear it is going well! I usually call 4 weeks what is needed to know what your beer really is going to taste like. Well, what my beers are going to taste like, I am not drinking yours, but you know what I am talking about. I am not drinking your beers. I don't know where those few beers of yours went....