Recent content by Worts_Up

I just visited the Bruery a couple weekends ago for the first time, and it was great. The tour there is very homebrewer friendly too. More of a "walk around the brewery and ask questions" kind of tour than a step-by-step explanation of the brewing process (like Anheiser Busch). They also pour...

APA has bottle conditioned for a week, so I put a bottle in the fridge for 4 hours to carbonate and cracked it yesterday.. Little sweet for an APA (didn't aerate enough and the yeast attenuated a little poorly), but I'm looking forward to sharing it in a swap!

Tasted the uncarbed APA after taking a hydrometer reading at 11 days into fermentation. Tasted far from toxic farts, so that's good. Unfortunately it's sitting at 1.019FG where the beer math puts it closer to 1.012, which means about 66% attenuation. Planning to bottle this weekend if it's still...

Dave, what city was that water out of? And was that extract or AG?

Brewing a Christmas Ale this weekend.. thinking 100% RO water from a store machine since I have no idea on what my West LA water does to beer (still fermenting first batch). Thoughts?

Checking in from West LA.. Homebrewing career started right when CCHB closed for renovations, and don't wanna make a trek up to Eagle Rock or over to the valley, so I've been buying only online. I'm in on a brew swap once I get my first batch conditioned.. which should be in ~3 weeks

Hello! Been lurking around here for about a month in order to get my first home brew (an APA) started, and I bottle this weekend. I'll also be putting my fermenter back to use on a Christmas ale that MAY finish in time for Christmas. Just wanted to say hello from LA! Hopefully I'll be getting...