Recent content by danbrellis

Figured I'd update anyone who might still be curious. I kegged the beer as it was, but life got away from me and I ended up just letting it sit in the basement for about a year. I tasted it the other day- still an unpleasant flavor, though drinkable (you don't spit it out). At this point I...

Thanks everyone for your thoughts and input. I'm feeling a lot better that I can salvage this batch one way or another. I guess my plan is to let it finish fermenting, then give it a taste and make a decision whether to 1) continue with a Fuggle dry hop and keep the English Pale approach or 2)...

I had 2.5 gals in my mash (partial mash), then sparged with 5 gal of the treated water in question to collect ~7 gals which went into the boil along with 3 lbs DME. The 2.5 gals for the mash were correctly adjusted (only added .2mL of lactic acid). FWIW I reached out to my homebrew club about...

Appreciate your insights. It's only 24 hours into a very vigorous fermentation. I took a pH test strip and it looks to be just above 4.0, maybe like 4.2 if I had to guess. It doesn't taste particularly sour but there is some unexpected flavor that is hard to describe, I guess that is the lactic...

Just finished my first batch of beer where I attempted to adjust water chemistry... and I messed up. I was using the Bru'n Water spreadsheet, and just now noticed that I put way too much lactic acid (88%) in my sparge water. I added 35mL to 5 gals of sparge water (forgot to adjust it to 88%, so...

Thanks for posting the response from the brewery and your recipe. My wife and I are interested in brewing a Harvest Ale this weekend and are interested in using an extract (with specialty grains) version of your recipe. How did it taste/turn out? Any tips or suggestions you have would be...