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Patience grasshopper. Let it age. Soon you'll come back in this thread and say, WOW, I tried another one (weeks from now) and it's FANTASTIC. ;)

It's REALLY bitter at this point. I tried one about two weeks after bottling, and it's hoppy, no question. I'm anxious to try another and see if another week or two has mellowed it a bit. :)

Agreed. I'd stick with all Marris Otter. This was my hop sked for my IIPA : 2 ounces Summit @ 60 mins 1.5 ounces Simcoe @ 45 mins 1.5 ounces Centennial @ 30 mins 1.5 ounces Cascade @ 2 mins 1 ounces cascade dry hop for 14 days 1 ounces centennial dry hop for 10 days Might be a...

hmm... that's strange. but again, if you're that worried, let me know ... ;) you'll be fine :D

Continental Divide Brewing? Mountain Air Brewing? any mountain passes nearby? geographic features? local landmarks?

You'd better let me take that batch off your hands. It very well could be ruined, and I'll be happy to make sure it's disposed of properly ;) RDWHAHB. You'll probably be fine. How did you do it though? Did you put the hop bag over the end of the siphon that was in the carboy, or over the end...

Going out of town this weekend, so no brewing for us. Next weekend we'll bottle our Bells Brown clone, and rack our Dragon's Milk clone to the secondary where it will sit for a month. When the brown is bottled, we'll have eight cases of beer bottled, another two in the secondary, and we...

well, no, not exactly. After you've mashed, you vorlauf the runoff to clear it of any husks, etc. When you're doing that, you want to gently pour the runnings into the tun so as not to disturb the grain bed and stir up the husks you're trying to strain out. After that, you pour in your sparge...

Batch sparge = easier ;)

I might be wrong, but I thought grain bed depth was only an issue if you're fly sparging. We batch sparge, so it's not an issue for us. We got ours at Dick's Sporting Goods. Try Gander Mountain?

We've got a 36 quart Coleman Xtreme and we maxed it out this past weekend with a 20 pound grain bill. FWIW

I used the parts listed, with a few alterations here and there, to convert our Coleman 36 quart Xtreme rectangular cooler. You might have to alter the fittings (the alteration I do remember is using a longer nipple ~giggle~ because of the width of the cooler wall) but in general it should work...

I don't have my notes with me, but our OG was around 1.056 if I remember ... Beersmith put it at around 1.070, but like I said, our efficiency still needs improvement. Regardless ... it's going to be a good beer.

Brewed! Here's the recipe, altered on brew day of course : 14 pounds marris otter 2 pounds cara-pils 2 pounds crystal 80L 1 pound roasted barley .5 pounds crystal 120L .75 pounds chocolate malt 2 ounces East Kent Goldings - 90 mins 1.5 ounces East Kent Goldings - 30 mins 2 ounces...

we have! :D we've got an AG Bells Best Brown clone ready to rack this weekend and we're making a huge leap this weekend and taking on our own version of New Holland's Dragon Milk. That should be interesting.

Well, like all things brewing, the recipe seems to change the day before, or the day of brewing, no? The final recipe was this : 2 pounds extra light DME 6.6 pounds pale LME 2 pounds Crystal 20L 1 pound munich malt 2 ounces Summit @ 60 mins 1.5 ounces Simcoe @ 45 mins 1.5 ounces Centennial @...

I thought that pack was where the yeast reside as well, but the guys at my LHBS told me other wise, and I believe them. :) good luck! :D

I purchased a Wyeast Flying Dog Ale yeast smack pack from our LHBS. It was "inflated" too... but the guys at the LHBS said Wyeast told them they'd apparently closed the packs before they had cooled complete, which is why it looked swollen. We used it in our Bells clone with no problem. Just...

We're going for it this weekend. Here's the recipe : 14 pounds marris otter 2 pounds cara-pils 2 pounds crystal 80L 1 pound roasted barley .5 pounds crystal 120L .25 pounds chocolate malt 3 ounces East Kent Goldings - 90 mins 2 ounces East Kent Goldings - 30 mins 2 ounces East Kent Goldings...

So far this year we've done four batches... and have plans to do another batch this weekend, and at least one more in the coming weeks. So that'll be 30 gallons, in about four or five months.