Recent content by Camride

I'll give you one piece of advise, don't drink it all too quickly. It will continue to get better over the coming weeks and you'll be kicking yourself if you went through most of it before it got really good. I did that with my Irish Red, kept trying it to see if it was getting better. By the...

Looks good! My first batch came out good, but it took a while. I fermented too hot and it took about 6 weeks for the off flavors to go away. That's a nice clear looking beer though. :mug:

Very unlikely that you'll have any problems with that vigorous of a fermentation. It'd be hard for anything to get in there and cause an issue.

Yep, duck ponds are bad. The beer should be fine.

I dry hopped my last IPA in primary. I waited 2 weeks to make sure fermentation was done, threw the hop bag in and left it in for another week. It came out excellent.

Agreed, definitely skip Boylan. All of their beers have an "off" flavor to me, I'm not sure what it is. But they all taste very similar and regardless of style they're all ~5% ABV. It's like they're purposely trying to brew the most boring, mediocre beers possible. I've been there 3-4 times...

I use this website to correct for temps and to get my ABV at the end: http://dd26943.com/davesdreaded/tools/convert.htm

That definitely will rust. I'd use this as an opportunity to get a nice stainless steel pot to replace it. :)

The only thing I would do is re-hydrate the dry yeast before pitching it. I've read a couple articles saying that a certain percentage of yeast is killed by pitching it directly into the wort. It probably won't make any difference on a low or medium gravity beer, but on a higher gravity beer...

I made a extract Tripel (Midwest Supplies kit) and it's been in primary a month now. I took a taste and a gravity reading it seems like it's going to be good but it's got such a lite flavor that the 8% alcohol is coming through a good bit. I know you can leave beer in primary for a good...

My first batch was an Irish red and it fermented in the mid 70's (for ambient temp) and it had some strong rubbing alcohol taste that was very unpleasant. After 6 weeks in the bottle the alcohol taste went away and it was a fantastic beer. Everyone I gave it to loved it. Don't stress about...

I believe there are some calculators out there to figure out how much boil off you'll have, not sure if you need Beer Smith or if there are online calculators (I'm still doing partials). If you're doing a 60 minute boil I'm guessing you'll boil off around 1.5-2 gallons though.

2 packets will be plenty. I brewed an IPA with a 1.076 OG and used one pack of US-05 without a problem (tastes great!). From what I've read US-05 is good for up to 10% ABV, so depending on how dry your IPA finishes could be borderline with one pack. Pitching two packs would definitely have...

I've been meaning to try this, after seeing this thread I'll definitely pick it up this week. I'd really like to brew a saison this summer.

That's going to be pretty warm for an IPA to ferment at. Remember that the wort can get up to 8*F warmer than ambient temperature during vigorous fermentation. What this means is you may get some off flavors that will take some time to mellow out in the bottle. I kept my Double IPA at 60-64*F...