Recent content by Mead_guy_from_md

I have enjoyed Sam Adams for many years, but my favorite to date, is Still Hacker-Pschorr. ~Phillip

Update Gravity now at 1.025 = 8% ABV. Flavor is sweet and hoppy, with a terrific aroma and smooth finish. It is rather cloudy yet and I am sure it will take another week or two in a secondary to clarify. ~Phillip

Update Brewed this Sunday and my batch came out dead on to the recipe. Using ProMash, I hit 77% efficiency and ended up with an O.G. of 1.091, a hair over my estimate. I used a bit of cold, store packaged drinking water to speed up cooling and I brought my O.G. to 1.086, I can deal lol Here...

I just did a Honey Blonde, bottled it tonight actually. Here are the cliff notes: Blonde Ale all grain recipe, first all grain attempt. Ingredients : 5 lbs Pal Ale Malt (2 row) .5 lbs Wheat Malt .5 lbs Carapilsner 3 lbs Alfalfa Honey 1.5 oz Cascade 4% alpha, 90 minutes .5 oz Cascade 4%...

Hello everyone, this is my 2nd AG attempt. This time I am trying something that I think is rather unusual, an Imperial Honey Ale. This beer is modeled after Imperial or Double IPA’s (India Pale Ales). I am looking to achieve a flavor similar to that of beers by Dogfish and Lagunitas; they...

Hello, I am a Beer and Mead enthusiast and have just started brewing beer in the past year. I have brewed two Brewers Best kits and am not thrilled with the extract flavor, so I have gone A.G. I have concocted 5 batches of Mead over the past 3 years and each batch gets better and more...

This sounds really interesting. I just started A.G. brewing and I think this will be either next or second in my queue. How is the new batch going? ~Phillip