Recent content by ipabrewer23

Hello HBT, I was supprised to wake up this morning to the beautiful sight of krausen on top of my beer always a good sight to see. Normally it looks disgusting and black brownish,but this one was without a doubt the sexiest krausen ever. I know its just random but I wonder if it has anything to...

Hello, today I racked from primary to keg. I wanted to try my beer so I chilled the keg and then force carbed @25 psi for 5 mins (rolling around so co2 absorbs faster). The beer tasted great but it definitely needs more time there was no off flavors or a yeasty taste. But tasted kind of bland...

Just a update on how its going useing both liquid and dry yeast. I woke up this morning and my blow off is going crazy nonstop all day sounds like a machine gun going off in my closet with about 1 1/2 krausen. By far the most intense blow off I have ever had maybe becuase of the 1lb hard rock...

Thanks for insight max.jekeane I already have popcorn and videotape. Looks like bruce lee vs chuck norris is my carboy. Should be a good fight xd

Muntons active brewers yeast. I probably used less than half of a pack with white labs monestary ale yeast. (Wouldent normaly do that but I maybe had too much homebrew in me when pitching.) Probably no harm done hopefully they dont start battleing eachother haha

Also its a 5 gallon batch

White labs monestary ale yeast is what I used. Also some brewers dry yeast. I pitched the white labs and spilled some and I didnt have anyother liquid vial so I pitched half a packet of dry yeast just to make up for what I spilled. I dont think I did any harm was just curious. I dont have a vial...

Today I brewed a monks in a barrel abbey ale and the gravity was a little too high for one white labs yeast vial .so I added a half pack of dry brewers yeast, Im not necessarily worried just curious on the effect of mixing the two. If it will effect my beer

I do not rember the name but it was just one type of grain but they where very light. After I steeped them it just looked like cloudy water

Here is a pic of the color the one next to it is a double ipa and was the same blackish color a couple days ago. The dirty lookin stuff is yeast energizer (had a few in me and spilled some haha).

Hello guys! First time poster here although this website has been my go to place to answer my questions. Yesterday I had a perfect brewday I made a beachin blonde ale by monsterbrew it was alot of fun and went very well. The only thing is that its black? I was hopeing for a clear yellow. I have...