Recent content by HadleyBrewer

Wow - that looks delicious. Thanks for the advice.

5 gallon batch, 4 gallon boil (as close to full as I can get given my equipment). I usually try to add most of my extract as late as possible to get better hops utilization. I like the idea of adding some crystal malt to the grain bill. I'm still pretty new at this though - any ideas on how...

Hi everyone - this is my first time trying to design my own recipe. It is a variation on the christmas beer from Brewing Classic Styles. Basically, I really wanted to make a christmas beer that had piney and maple notes. Please tell me what you think! Fermentables: 13 lbs pale ale...

Yeah - I mean, I'm definitely not throwing it out or anything. Just hoping for a little reassurance that everythings going to turn out ok. This batch cost like 70 dollars!

heres some video i took shortly after i got home from work. Look at that f*ing Krausen! Edit: Never mind - I guess I can't upload video here.

Apartment living - not many other places to put it, and this spot in this room has the most stable temperature. If it had never exploded everything would have worked out fine!

I just wish I had video of the explosion. When I got home, the krausen was expanding so fast it could watch it slowly drip over the side of the bucket. I think I might have to repaint my walls after this though...

The lid was ~10 feet away from the bucket on the other side of the living room. Anyway, here's my question. I sanitized the lid and resealed the bucket, but the krausen is still expanding. I don't have any blowoff tubing and I don't feel like running out for any until tomorrow. So I am...

So it finally happened! I was brewing my fourth batch (a high gravity irish stout) when I found this:

Okay, this is my third batch, and I'm using WLP 565, which I hear can take a long time to finish fermenting. OG of my recipe was 1.072, and the target FG is supposed to be 1.015. On day 13 of my fermentation I opened the carboy to take a gravity reading prior to racking to secondary, and I...

Here's An online book that covers the basics and then some:http://www.howtobrew.com/intro.html

I've read that in other posts about this recipe. I was thinking that I would follow it as written and "dry hop" with some more ginger to taste after fermentation is done.

Hi everyone - I'm about to start my third batch of extract brew. I recently downloaded brewtarget, and after inputting the Ginger Saison recipe from extreme brewing into the program, the estimated OG, FG, and ABV it calculated are much different from those listed in the book. I would have...