Recent content by BrianP728

You could use Citra as a bittering hop. It usually has a high alpha so it would be good. Should come through nicely.

I was reading past pasts in this thread and it seems that your sparge temp is too hot. At max it should be 170 not over, any hotter and tannins can be released. Also allowing enough time for the yeast to clear it's self like talked about before will help as well. My father kept rushing the...

Yay free stuff! Im in.

Sorry, mash temp was all over the place. 68°F is the ferm temp. I had to do my pale malt as DME light and then all other grains were BIAB in the pot. the middle of the grains i have no idea what the temp was, surrounding water was in the 152 range, so I assume the middle of the grains was much...

71% is what I calculated as well. 1) What yeast did you use? If liquid, did you make a starter or pitch 2 vials? If dry, did you rehydrate first?I used whitelabs American Ale blend yeast. I pitched two vials in the wort. 2) Did you oxygenate the wort prior to pitching? yes oxygenated the...

Just brewed this a few weeks ago and bottled today. Had an og of 1084 and fg of 1024. This gives me the same abv as the recipe but I feel like it should have fermented atad bit more. Anyone have any thought?