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HB IPA I'd written off as being flat, but after 3 months is perfect.

Shots of Beer

So in January, I brewed my third batch ever. A week after I racked it to secondary and then let it sit until Feb 26, when I bottled and primed it. March 6, for a family party, I pulled it out and discovered that it was dead flat. Tasty but flat. Fast forward to today. While cleaning up some...

I was in the basement today and checked on the bottles. All the dimples that the bottle capper put into the caps are now pimples. Given that its 3 Celsius outside my backdoor right now, all the bottle went outside for a crashing before they become bombs. Now just how to decide what to due...

So I chilled and opened a bottle this evening. And as expected the bottle went fizz when opened. So I guess I've got to chill then down and get onto to drinking. It is a sweet mead but the flavour profile is exactly what I'm looking for. Time to do another batch and let it finish out...

So for perspective, I'm a relatively newbie to mead, even to the drinking of it, so my palate is still developing. I've had two commercial example, both drunk cold. One I loved. The other I wouldn't buy again as it was too light. The flavour profile was much to my liking, but this was...

So my first batch of mead (JOAM, start 11/30/15) is aging out nicely in the fermentor, but that leaves me nothing to drink right now. I've got some beer on the go, but I like the flavour of mead as an after dinner drink. I was going to make some of Bray's One Month Mead, but even that seemed...

Not that I have a lot more experience that you (having done 3 brews), but I'd drop the Pilsner down to 420g with a full body mash and I suspect that you'd have a very nice mild/session beer.

So I bottled this yesterday after two weeks.. OG was 1.012 which got the beer down as low as I could've hoped. The hydrometer sample was tasty and the beer was a nice hazy copper. Much lighter than it looked in the fermenter. Had a really nice aroma, which based on description was the traits...

Even though I missed on the FG so my batch of this turned out at 2%, this turned into a delicious brew. First taste, warm, a week after bottling was nice but a little thin. A week later, the next taste at about 50F was very, very yummy. Definitely needed a bit of time conditioning in the...

While not an expert by any stretch (considering I've done only two brews), would not the issue come down to the Ingredients you chose in Beersmith? If you drive down to the ingredients/Grains, it will list each as having a gravity/SRM. If you're comparing your recipe to someone else's, any...

There was issues with the mill at the LHBS when I did this batch. They got a new one from another shop (setup on a box) and it wouldn't mill anything hard (both the Caramunich and the Wheat). I ended up using their other mill and it did seem to crack the wheat husk, but I likely should've done...

As a note to anyone looking at the above recipe, what is in the fermenter did not turn out red, it's brown. Daughter is still happy though as she says it looks like chocolate milk.

The fold/tape/store in fridge method is what I've done so far. But given the advice of the manufacterer, I want to try and do the best for my yeast. My range in use is based on Mr. Malty (.2 of a pack) vs Danstar which advise usage of 100g/100L so 5g/5L for my use.