Recent content by alanlis

Are there people on Earth that don't like a nice Amber Ale??

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?feature=fvwrel&v=d0nERTFo-Sk

I thought people only drank those because they got "iced"...

What's your boil volume?

Getting a bayou burner. I'm tossing in homebrew with most of my gifts.

Mash tun to switch to all grain. Getting a burner for Christmas. Also, a new hydrometer...

690- dropped a screwdriver on it...

I figured it out. I changed the default 3 gallon boil pot to 5 gallons. Could someone wiser than myself explain why this is? I use a 5 gallon kettle but only boil 3 gallons. Does this lower my hop utilization? Edit: Looking at it more closely, it pretty drastically changes the yields on...

One extenuating factor I just considered is the kit uses special dark extract (90 deg) which I just plugged in as dark which is listed as 17.5 SRM, but I'm assuming it's not all roast bitterness?

Yep, I should've mentioned that. 5 gallon batch and all other estimates (OG, abv) come out correctly.

I am brewing a Brewer's Best India Black Ale kit for my fourth homebrew. I just installed Beersmith on my computer so I could switch from kits to designing my own recipes and thought I'd give it a test run by inputting the kit recipe. The kit advertises 80-85 IBUs but Beersmith is telling me it...