Recent content by brianmc27

Not sure about how the grain bill or the hop schedule meshes Recipe Type: Partial Mash Yeast: San Diego Super Yeast Yeast Starter: Yes Batch Size (Gallons): 5.50 Original Gravity: 1.067 Final Gravity: 1.014 IBU: 69.1 ABV: 7.1% Boiling Time (Minutes): 90 Color: 9.5 Primary...

I've brewed several batches (>10) all with a varying amount of grains and ALL of them with extract. I aspire to move to all grain once I get the equipment. I'm trying to use more and more grain as I start to make my own recipes. My method is this - I use a brew sock with 3-4 lbs of grains...

Excellent! Thanks. I subbed 1.5 lbs of Vienna for the biscuit and Carafoam. Does the hop schedule look ok?

After reflection my concern is the Carafoam, would something like Vienna be a better fit here?

I've brewed about 10-15 beers in the last few years, mostly kits and modifications of existing recipes. I just built a fermentation chamber this last week to deal with the atrocious Sacramento summer heat and I'm ready to create my own custom recipe. I went on the brew tour at Anchor Brewery...

I did a slightly modified version of Yoopers Dead Guy Clone and got an OG of 1.066. I checked the gravity after a week and it was at 1.024, a bit high. I checked it again a week later (by now it's been fermenting for 2 weeks) and it was at 1.022. I used WLP060, the American Ale Yeast blend...

Yeah, I figured it'd be different, I just wanted to make sure that the wheat extract wouldn't make a funky tasting beer. I'm also using White Labs American Ale yeast blend. I'm pretty excited, this will be my first non-kit batch.

It's a 5 gallon recipe calling for- 4 lbs of Pale LME 4 lbs of Light DME The DME was unavailable so I'm going to use all LME. What would happen if I used 6 lbs of pale LME with 3 lbs of wheat LME?