Recent content by Alf_Torp

If "The big three" operates in a similar way to what their possibly biggest european counterpart has, I can totally understand the hatred towards them. This brewery has bought many local breweries throughout Europe and Scandinavia, and then either shut them down or let them die a slow...

Another taste note on my "Trainwreck IPA" (Thanks, Double_D...)... Having been bottled for a couple of weeks, it now has a mildly sweet, honey like start and a nice, grape fruity finish. Still not much alcohol flavor and it is clearing up nicely, too. Some cooling haze but I can live with that...

First tasting is in. I have a rich, not overly sweet, almost strawberry jam like flavor, ending in a nice, dry bitterness. Nice head and retention. Little if any alcohol notes. I will keep you informed of its progress over the next few weeks.

Yeast is Safale 05 fermenting at 23 degrees celsius.

Indeed it was 1.065. It's just that I like my beer around 4-5% abv. Any more than that and I start picking up too much of an alcohol flavor, which I think kind of kills the beer a bit. I checked on it today, and it is down to 1.012 so I am looking at somewhere around 7% abv... Not sure about...

...with a massive miscalculation. What was supposed to be a 6 gallon. 1.054 OG IPA with a 40 IBU ended up a 7 gallon, 1.65 OG, 45 IBU something instead, because I am also learning a new beer software. Yay me! But at least I have more beer than I expected. I just hope it will be drinkable...

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... no, not really. Hello, my name is Alf and I am a home brewer based in the vicinity of Trondheim, Norway. I've been at it for 2-3 years, on and off. I've been doing various extract kits and regular extract brews mostly, as I'm a bit short on storage space for equipment etc. I'm lucky...