Recent content by travishall1987

Realized I didn't include the amount right after I posted. Each hop addition was one ounce of pellet hops from hopunion. Not exactly sure about the AAs of the cascades and centennials, but I would venture to guess its somewhere between 4 and 6.

I've got my first batch of all grain (a west coast amber) in the fermenter now. It's been in there for three days and is pretty much completely done bubbling. I took a hydrometer sample today and I've already hit my target gravity, but when I tasted it I noticed an overly intense hop bitterness...

Thank you for all the responses! I think it's unlikely that the yeast i pitched was infected as i cracked the cap away from the wort and pitched only that which was left in the vial. There has been some activity in the starter. It bubbled up to the top of the of the erlinmeyer and i was left...

Last night I was making my starter, and when I went to open my vial of White Labs San Diego Super yeast it fizzed out quite a bit. I quickly closed the cap, but I would say I lost at least half of the vial's contents if not more. I went ahead and pitched the remaining yeast into my 2L starter...

I made an all grain starter yesterday because I couldn't find a place around here that sells DME. It went well to the best of my knowledge, and when I was done I had a starer wort with an OG of 1.030. The problem is, I pitched the yeast today around 9am, shook it vigorously then left it for...

My name is Travis. I'm a Hoosier that recently relocated to the beautiful South Carolina coast. I'm a novice brewer with one batch (a chocolate milk stout that turned out pretty good) under my belt. I am here because I am hooked on this brewing thing and want to learn anything and everything I...