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What's the difference between jam and marmalade? You can't marmalade your cock up a girls ass.... ^thats a good ice breaker joke for the in laws or something.

*at what temp

At eggs temp should I get it into the carboy? And what temp should I pitch the yeast at?

Yeah I just drank some more after I typed that. Tastes so much like a kind of hoppy hard cider. I feel like less of a man for drinking it. I need to drink a gnarly IPA and this isn't doing it.

Well I tried the rogue IPA I bottled a week ago. The bottles have been sitting in my house which is probly 60* (it's like 30* outside). There was some carbonation but not enough I think. Anyways it had a sweet taste to it. And smells a lot like an apple cider. I like a crisp hoppy IPA. And this...

Thanks unionrdr I will do that next batch. As for the citrus IPA I measured the gravity and it's at 1.020 after 9 days. Started at 1.055. The taste was good. Not as sweet as the last batches. I haven't seen a bubble for a long time out of the airlock though. And I just added the drying hops...

Ok so I will look up how to restart stuck fermentation and try that if the gravity isn't changing much. So my next batch I should pitch the yeast at a lower temp? I use a coil to cool the wert and it seems hard to get below 80. Maybe if I wait it out it will get lower. Pitching it at 70* would...

How vigorously should I shake it? Just a bit to see some bubbles or a head form? Should be easy. I can throw the plug on and shake the carboy.

My original for the citrus was about 1.055 I think. I have to check. I don't know what my target fg is. The directions don't say. I was just gonna leave it for around 3 weeks and check gravity near the end to see if it stays steady. I will have to check the gravity tomorrow to see where it's at...

So I'm on my third batch right now. Started with an extract blonde ale and it turned out ok but I feel like I could taste the extract sweetness in the beer. I just bottled my next batch, a rogue i2pa and I tasted it before bottling and it was good but I still taste that distinct extract flavor...

Thanks for the help. I think I might throw them in in a week or so when there's not much of a risk of it clogging the air lock. I love extremely hoppy gnarly IPA's. I don't know how much these hops affects the flavor but I will experiment. Also we were pretty buzzed when we brewed and we have an...

Hey guys I just brewed a malt extract kit of Rogue I2PA yesterday. Brew day went great! Only my second and i felt it went a lot smoother this time. I only got a gravity of 1.070 but I think that's because I used a little too much water (6 gallons) and it had 12 lbs of extract. But it is already...

Nice. A lot of locals on here. Looks like a pretty cool community. Been reading and every one seems pretty cool and helpful. Seems like a lot of home brewers in northern Cali. My old shop foreman at Toyota had a home brew called Bare River Brewing co and had one of the best fruit infused beers...

Hey everyone! Just got a home brew kit from morebeer.com. Came with the blonde ale which is on day 3 of fermentation right now! Brew day went great. Was a lot of fun to do with a few good friends. I have been a mechanic since I was 16. 26 now and I rebuild transmissions for a living. Took...