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Well the plan is to leave in the primary for 14 days and then secondary for 7 and then to bottle for 3 weeks and be ready for drinking on christmas. It isnt done fermenting just slowed way down from where it started. I guess the best thing really is just sit and wait till i go to secondary taste...

Well am going to taste it again today just to see because its getting really close to being done with fermentation working on its 6th day now. When I tasted it yesterday could tell there was alcohol and dont really remember much bitter to speak of more malty and then a touch of choclatey at the...

Well lets say that usually most IPA's are to bitter hoppy for me but like a new castle is about right.

So made a batch of a choclate brown ale...dont like a super bitter beer so was going to go fairly light on the hops put in .5 oz of my bittering hop for 60 min boil and 1 oz of my flavoring hop in for the last 15 min or so. Was checking my SG yesterday and decided to taste a small amount. It is...