Recent content by northparker

What's true in a professional context isn't always true in a homebrewing context. Brulosophy has a great experiment on the effect of large amounts of trub in the fermentation vessel - in the end, both beers were similar and preference was split about 50/50 either way. Similar results for dry...

Good point. Most of my brews so far have been more in the 1.050 - 1.060 range, I don't really know much about how OG affects perceived bitterness. I'm going to plug the recipe into Beersmith and play around with adding a little DME and a Simcoe/Mosaic hop schedule. Maybe target 40 IBU to...

Yeah, I bought this kit with the idea that I would experiment with it. I do have some extra Cascade, that could definitely work. I've been thinking I'd like to try some Simcoe or Mosaic but I wasn't sure how they would interact with the Hallertauer and Fuggles. I did get the Fuggles IPA kit...

I have Midwest's Autumn Amber Ale kit in the garage, I'm probably going to brew it in the next week or so. I got it as part of their "buy 3 for $19 each" sale, it wouldn't have been my first pick but I wanted to try something new. It's a pretty low IBU kit (looks like around 15 IBU) with 1oz...