Recent content by deadphish

I've done a starter with US-05, but never re hydrated. Always seems to kick off in a reasonable time.

It took me several batches to get the right amount of coffee, but no over power. Your method is a good way to get it right faster. I know also always cold brew and add at bottling to make sure i have the right combo. I usually throw some course ground coffee a little after flameout and...

I really like Kohatu and Citra. Kohatu has great aroma and flavor but its not overly powerful. However it compliments Citra perfectly and makes both pop out. For IPAs at least.

I can't say I really got any Hawaiian Punch at all. I've never used it solo, only with the Citra, but it really just accents and adds to it, with a little pine kick.

Planning on doing a very similar brew this weekend, in fact its almost identical except I'm using German Spalt hops, which is what Sam Adams uses. I'd also be interested in how it turns out. I based my recipe off of Sam Adams website. Very useful info on ingredients...

Love Kohatu. They have great flavor and aroma but not too strong so I pair them with Citra in my house IPA. Thinking about adding some Wakatu as well.

So I brewed this yesterday, things turned out decent. However I only got 62% efficiency, probably could have done better with the sparge next time. Still should be around 4% abv. It tasted pretty good, much better than any extract I've done so far. Gonna also add some vanilla bean soaked in...

Dogfish Head brews a beer with raisins called Raison D etre but not sure how much fermentables you get out of the raisins.

I've adjusted the recipe in the first post. Just curious about one more thing. I used the Brewer's Friend mash calculator and at 1.50 qt/lb I should use 5.63 qts (1.4gallons). Does that sound right? And then that should mean I'd use 2.1 gallons for sparge water?

Ahh sorry, yea thats from the phone app I'm using. Haven't calculated that, but I plan on using Death Brewers method - https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=75231 - and just scaling it down.

Awesome thanks, I appreciate the advice. I'm pretty excited for this brew.

Do you think it would work if i scaled back to ... 3lbs 2-Row .40lbs Chocolate .25lbs Coffee .10lbs Honey ?

Thanks for the suggestions and yea I might scale back the coffee malt a bit to try and get under 20% Hadnt finalized mash temp yet, but I think the recipe i was basing this off was 156. Ill try and keep my temps down, but I dont have much in the way of temp control yet, but my basement is...

Planning on giving this porter recipe a try. This is my first attempt at all grain after about 10 or so extract brews. Also going to add some vanilla beans to the fermenter for 7 days or so. Although I wont be able to pick up any other ingredients before brew day, was hoping for some...

I've done a similar brew with my old Mr. Beer kegs. I did a 5 gallon batch and split it between 2 kegs. I dry hopped each with 1oz of a different hop variety. Once i bottled the first batch I did the same thing following the same recipe. Definitely helped me out a bit with understanding the...