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Thanks for the info. You might find this gravit/hops ratio chart useful to nail down your IBU's. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f66/centennial-blonde-simple-4-all-grain-5-10-gall-42841/

Your recipe sounds like a good start. Look at this https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f62/cream-three-crops-cream-ale-66503/ for inspiration. I've brewed it several times and its turned out great. Maybe you can just scale it up a bit. Also, unless you like the sasion taste, you might want to stick...

nice! its only 7:30am here but i kind of what to have a beer to celebrate.

No need to let it warm up. It shouldn't really matter either way. Its a little plastic bag that holds the nutrients. You'll see it. I probably wouldn't leave it in the fermentor but if it touches your wort it's not going to hurt anything. RDWHAHB

2 thoughts on that: 1 - do replace it with dextrose to make it dryer. or 2 - don't and learn what a 1.017 beer tastes like. it certainly won't be bad. I'd tend towards 2. Keep it simple at first and see if you actually need to adjust anything.

Congrats incog! I'm impressed this is only your 3rd beer. You already seem to have a pretty good idea of what's going on. Happy brewing!

Congrats! It seems like things went well. Nothing sounds out of the ordinary. For a typical beer, if you can be patient, I'd suggest letting the beer sit in the primary for about 3 weeks. This will give the yest plenty of time to eat up all the sugar, clean its self up, and settle to the...

I've soured a full batch using this method and I was very happy with the results. The beer had a good sour pucker kick to it. I'll definitely do it again. Just do it!

Take 2: Hops to use: 4 oz chinook, 2 oz williamette, lots of nugget OG: 1.080 Schedule: 1.00 oz Nugget [13.00 %] (90 min) (First Wort Hop) 45 min 1.00 oz Nugget [13.00 %] (45 min) Hops 30 min 1.00 oz Nugget [13.00 %] (30 min) Hops 10 min 1.00 oz Nugget [13.00 %] (10 min) Hops 0 min 1.00 oz...

Hey all, I'm brewing an Imperial IPA. I have some home grown hops that I'm going to use. 2 oz williamette and 4 oz Chinook. If needed I could by more hops for bittering and use all 6 oz home grown hops for flavor/aroma. How do the hops look? Suggestions? OG: 1.080 Hop Schedule...

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Here are some pictures of my outlet port at the bottom in case anyone is curious (NuclearRich). Cheers! Jeff