Recent content by joe91620

I found this recipe a few months back and decided to try it out. I sampled the first bottle over the weekend, and I have to completely agree with wyzazz. This beer is great! I also completely agree with the use of a blowoff tube. I must have missed that when reading through the original...

Thanks, Kahless. I'll have to keep that advice in mind from here on out. I have my third batch in the fermenter now (an Irish Red) and I just pitched that one dry, too. In the future I'll make sure to rehydrate.

Thanks for the quick replies! I will definitely take that advice to practice, menerdari, but for lagers, isn't the secondary "lagering" stage required? For a little more background information, at first I followed the kit directions and pitched the included yeast at 60 F (using an ice bath...

Hello All, First, some background! I just recently started homebrewing, and so far it's been great. I picked up a standard two bucket kit from my LHBS, as well as a Better Bottle and two beer kits (Brewer's Best brands). The first beer I brewed was an Irish Stout, which wildly exceeded my...