Recent content by BeeGeeBrew

I'd like to try to make that meeting for sure. thanks for the info.

I live up near Pace. I have been brewing on and off for a couple years now and was wondering if there are any clubs or anything around here.

Figured I would update this since the beer has now been in the keg for about a month. Now the beer has mellowed substantially. It still has a very strong grapefruit note, which from what I have read is what you are supposed to get from Centennial. I would probably skip the dry hop if I did this...

So using a calculator this beer has an IBU around 64, which appears to be about what the IBU of celebration pale ale is. This beer's bitterness is very tart to me (unlike celebration), and my buddy described it the same way. Does anyone else find a beer heavily hopped with Centennial to be a...

So with another full week in the keg the beer is now pretty delicious. The mouthfeel from the Marris Otter is great, sweet and malty forward and the bitter bite at the end. Instead of grassy the bitterness is more grapefruit to me, but I don't have the most refined pallet so I dunno......either...

I actually did it in the fementor for the last 2 days before kegging.

Here's a update, with potentially good news.....I tasted a sample today at lunch, and although the beer was still pretty cloudy there is noticeably much less grass. It's still there but not near as bad. I'm leaving town for work for a week so hopefully it's ready when I get back. On a side note...

It's a bummer. I really just don't understand what caused it. I dry hopped with more Cascade for slightly longer in my amber ale, and I had no grassy flavor whatsoever. Even straight from the fermentor.

I was so impatient with my first brew, an extract amber ale. I tried one after 4 days in the bottle......1 week, 2 weeks and then 3 weeks. I can tell you this, the beers that I've drank past 3 weeks were delicious! It was definitely drinkable at 4 days as well, but the flavors were too harsh and...

oh no no, I meant I filtered just the sample I took from the fermentor through a coffee filter to taste it. My recipe was the following: 11 lbs Marris Otter mashed with 4 gallons at 154 deg for 60 min -held temp pretty well, dropped to 153 after about 40 min, then was 152 for the last...

I just brewed a marris otter centennial smash and finally kegged a couple days ago. I dry hopped it for 2.5 days with 0.5 oz and I tasted a sample from the fermentor and it tasted like straight grass. I could see hop particles in the hydrometer tube so I figured that was it. I filtered them out...

Awesome, thanks for the input.

Oh it's that simple? Now I feel dumb. I figured the steeping grain amounts were reduced because it was an extract recipe.

So I've made 3 batches now, and my first batch was the extract kit that came with my Northern Brewer starter kit. I decided to dry hop it for 2 days with 1 oz of Cascade, and now that they have been in the bottles about 4 weeks I think they are delicious. I got so burnt out on IPA's and other...

I'm looking to make a batch of apple cider, but I want to add some nutmeg and cinnamon to it. There are so many reciepes out there I'm kind of lost. I just want to do a simple cheap hard cider with some spice influence. I plan to back sweeten with some artificial sweetner, not super sweet but a...