Recent content by wkawk2416

yeah, thanks for the input dcp27 but after aging those beer almost 4 months, i dont taste any off-flavor. in fact, it is quite drinkable and i like it.. however, i was just wondering if its possible that beer can be tasted like ipa if hop utilization is increase significantly where i intended...

to dcp27. What i do is I put water in big bucket with some cold ice too keep temperature of fermentation bucket around 68-72. In this case, isn't it more like wort temperature?

to mongrel yes i did use starsan to sanitize.. First, i thought my beer was infected when i first tasted because it tasted like nail polisher. and that was solely judging by tasting the beer. When fermenting, it did not have any signs of infection and that is why i decided to age the beer and...

newbie here and just wanted to ask a quick question. about 6 months ago, i bought a 5 gallon kettle to brew beer. For better hop utilization, I put 1 oz of cascades in the boiling 5 gallon water. i didn't put any malt or anything so it was just hops and boiling water. and that went about...

any one recommend best tasting extract kit or coopers??

looks great!. i am new to brewing so let me ask you a question. If i want to do 2 gallon boil or 3 gallon boil for extract , should i add more hops to compensate hop utilization? if then could any1 calculate hop usages? thanks.