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If we want to try this recipe again, should we cut the hops dramatically? I feel like we wasted hops because we could barely taste them. I am guessing this is because the alcohol overwhelms the hop flavor.

Since this didn't turn out to be an American Pale Ale, what style of beer would this be?

Thanks for the responses. We initially thought it tasted like a high gravity beer but we werent sure b/c of the OG.

We actually started off with 5 gallons, but obviously some burned off. At the end, I believe that we added about 1 - 1.5 gallons of water, so that makes sense about the low OG. I forgot to add that we added 1 oz of Amarillo @ 60 for bittering hops. Would it help to add another package of...

A few weeks ago I brewed 5 gallons and put in a total of 9 lbs of DEM. The following occurred before and after the brew: 1. No hot break. We continuously stirred in the DME and kept it boiling but there was no hot break. 2. Initial gravity: 1.036 3. After 2 weeks of fermentation, final...

Well, I always tell my partners to never dump out a batch of beer because of what I have read on these boards. They outnumbered me so we dumped it. A DAMN SHAME.

I feel like our hot break took much longer because we added 50% more DME. If we were to added the DME in intervals like the example listed above, will we have 3 different hot breaks to deal with?

So is there no need to add more water since I am adding more DME? Should we try adding 1 or 2 pounds instead of 3? Does anyone have a good resource for moving to full boil?

We brew outside in a 10 gallon pot. So we put TOO much extra DME in there? I guess we were getting too ambitious with our desired alcohol level.

We initially put 3 gallons of water in the pot. After the grains were steeped for 30 minutes, we removed the grains and brought the water to a boil. Once we achieved the boil, we killed the heat and beging stirring in the 9 lbs. of DME (instead of the 6 lbs. we usually use). However, after all...

Hello all, My friends and I recently decided to try to increase the alcohol level of our beer, so we added three extra pounds of pilsen light DME to our pale ale recipe, without changing any other ingredients. After taking over an hour to achieve the hot break, we began to notice that the...

These were my thoughts exactly in my original post. When my pale ale went into the primary, it looked exactly how a pale ale should look. But now it looks like a porter, and I have never seen or heard of a very dark pale ale like that.

Thank you! That makes me feel so much better for I thought my beer was ruined!

The ingredients were: hopped light LME Muntons light DME - 2# Crushed crystal malt - 6 oz UK First Gold - 1 oz WYeast 1056 American smack pack Thanks!

After two weeks of fermenation of my TrueBrew pale ale all malt kit, I noticed that the color changed rapidly from a nice rich caramel color to a dark coffee black color. Does anyone have any idea what would cause this to happen? The temperature has been very cold and I noticed that it was...