Recent content by BrewerBrad

It was an imperial stout recipe from my LHBS, extract + specialty grains. Part of me wanted it to turn out poorly so I could learn a bit more, but it looks like I did everything right so... cheers!:mug: My near-term goals are to acquire an IC to reduce cooling time (took about 45 minutes and...

This may sound odd but I'd suggest checking out Rock Bottom in bellevue. I know it's a chain restaurant/brewery but the local brewmaster does his own recipes and his IPA is pretty good. Also right now they have a fresh-hop ale that really surprised me. I've had and enjoyed many hoppy beers...

whew ok thanks :)

so should I add the food packet now, or will they be okay without it?

My first brew was today, and everything was going well until it came time to pitch the yeast. I gave the smack pack a decent smacking several hours ago when I started, but when I poured it into the fermenter bucket I saw an unbroken packet of dark orange/brown liquid. The yeast packet broke...

lol yeah, I thought I'd go fishing with that one, see who bit. Wasn't expecting to catch a penguin though!:mug: How's the turn out from western washington on here? I would assume pretty good since everybody I know knows somebody who homebrews it seems...

Whats up everyone! I recently decided I wanted to try my hand at homebrewing so I've been reading everything I can get my hands on for the past week or so. I'm currently speccing out my first kit and I'm excited as all hell. I gotta say, with all the tuns of info on here (pun intended) I'm...