Recent content by bgkast

Here is my first label for my second brew. Kinda amaturish compaired to some of the other ones you guys have made. :o Text reads "What happens when you spend all brew-day working on swapping out hoses on your turbocharger? You spend all night trying not to fall asleep over the brew pot and...

Here is the final recipe based on your sugestions. Thanks! Next time I may back off a bit on the bittering hops. I will post back how it turns out. Black Hole Cascadian Dark Ale American IPA Type: Partial Mash Date: 2/11/2012 Batch Size (fermenter): 5.00 gal Brewer: bgkast Boil Size: 4.00...

Thanks for the help. I collected 4 gal of wort from my partial mash that I used for the boil. I used light DME, the amber in the recipe was a typo. I'm cooling it down now...smells great! I ended up adding 2 oz Chinook and 1 oz N. brewer at 60 minutes, 1 oz cascade at 10 minutes, 1 oz...

Thanks. It's on the stove now, and I went with the 3 oz at 60 min. I will use some of my cascade in the last few minutes of the boil and use less for the dry hopping. I got 4 gal of 1.033 wort from my partial mash giving me a calculated efficency of 77%, which seems high to me.

Hello. First time poster, long time lurker. For my third brew I would like to try a Cascadian Dark Ale/Black IPA. This will be my first partial mash brew, and is my first time modifying a recipe using beer smith. It is based on This recipe with some changes to the hops, mostly to use up some...