Recent content by TheCatman

4494 gallons + 5 gallons Northern English Oatmeal Brown Ale + 5 gallons Cream Ale = 4504 gallons

Man, too bad I don't live in Loveland anymore. I'll keep an eye on your progress and hopefully be able to swing when I visit family!

It was a typo, good catch. I was targeting 152F, but the mash tun was stored in a shed outside which I've never done before, so my preheating process was off and it ended up at 150F.

This was an attempt at a nice and light - but warm and toasty - Northern English Brown. It was the first brew at our new house so the setup and the water were uncertain, but everything turned out quite well! Ended up with 72% overall efficiency, so it's sitting at 4.9% ABV instead of the...

The next two planned brews are for my wedding this summer. First is a German Pils. Brewday should be in two weekends. About two months from now we'll do a quick second batch of something fresh and hoppy. The wedding is on the beach at the Oregon coast in June, so we want nice refreshing beers...

I built a short hose out of vinyl tubing (same as I use for siphoning) with a faucet fitting and a clamp. It's just a few feet long and can connect to any outdoor faucet or the kitchen sink if I swap the aerator with a threaded fitting.

I did a monster RIS with blackberry puree in secondary. Turned out great! It just needed a few months of age in bottles for the flavors to come together.

I've been really enjoying Mosaic lately. Also +1 on Belma!

Well all of those oils from 5.5 ounces of non-boil hops would be pretty slippery...err greasy.

This greasy bastard is done carbing so here are some quick observations and tasting notes. Pours pale and cloudy, almost like a good Hefeweizen but with a faint green-ish tint instead of orange-ish. The head is nice and full, bright white. The nose is very, very tropical, dominated by...

FERMENTATION UPDATE: This batch has been in primary for 11 days now so I just added the hops for secondary. I decided to give the single-vessel dry hopping technique a try. The hops will be in for 9 days (until Sunday the 15th when I get back from vacation). Gravity measured at 1.012, which...

This recipe was brewed on Sunday! A few minor changes had to be made and I've edited the OP to reflect these (addition of dextrine malt, Galaxy instead of Motueka). The mash converted better than I had expected, 75% instead of 65% brewhouse efficiency (both previous brews since moving here...

Cheers, bud! I'm planning on brewing this one by the end of the month, I'll post results and the final recipe then :mug:

Ahh, cool. I might roll with 152F-154F.

It did indeed! Hmmm that's an interesting point. Right now in Beersmith, I have mash at 149F. I definitely want this to be well balanced (as much as can be with this amount of hops), so maybe I'll have to raise it up a bit. When you say "too low", what temps were you at?