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I dumped a batch a few days ago. No fun to do, but I could not stomach drinking it, it was horrible. My own fault, I burned the absolute CRAP out of the liquid extract, and the beer had a horrible taste to it becuase of that. I also didn't mix the priming sugars into the beer very well when I...

I'm not exactly brewing, but I plan on starting up a batch of Apfelwein this weekend.

1) Carboy Caps to initiate syphons 2) Extra carboy so I can make more beer. 3) 3-Gal Mash Tun so I can do Partial Mash beer (so much better than before) LEAST BENEFICIAL "Upgrades" 1) Bottle washing wand that screws onto a hose. I can't get hot water out of any compatible faucet, I can...

man, nothing starts a weekend off like cracking open a 22 of Stone IPA on a friday night after getting home from work. We JUST recently got stone pale up here, which was nice to see, I enjoyed that as well, and smaller bottles of Stone ruination, I think 12oz of that is all I need anyway :-p

bottled it tonight. Tasted fine, nothing weird. couldn't find anything in the hop bag to explain it. Not going to worry about it, my most productive brew yet!

So I dryhopped my IPA last weekend with an ounce of cascade pellets. I put them in a little mueslin bag and put two smooth (sanitized) stones in the bag with the hops and put them through the neck of the carboy where they sunk to the bottom. There they stayed until last night. I got home...

Get a bottling wand and you can always have a perfect fill of each bottle.

I like the concept, have you tried putting Van instead of Pale for Eddie Van Ale'n?

I try to go 10 days in the primary if I can, but I just racked to 2ndary at 8 becuase I need my primary to bottle my IPA with. You're very close to your target, I say let it go a few more days, take a hydrometer sample and rack away

Brew what you love man. I plan on trying to put my own twist on a number of different styles, and perfecting them as best as I can, mainly becuase after I brew an IPA, its 6 weeks until I can drink it, so I've got to brew a few things in between so I can figure out what I want to do...

I use little mueslin bags on hops if I put in large quantities, but for a couple ounces or less I usually just keep my wort stirring spoon handy and I scrape out my strainer as the hops clog it up. Its worked out really well, scrape it out every 10 seconds or so, no clogs.

becareful about stirring too much after fermentation has started. gentle stirring is all you want to do, anything vigorous will introduce oxygen into the wort/beer and can oxidize it. other thn that, 7 days down to 1.024 is pretty good, but high gravity beers take a long time to ferment...

One thing you might try is chilled/bottled spring water, thats what I used for my first batch, and it worked fine. I ended up making my wort TOO cold though. I now do full boils with a wort chiller, I get down to pitching temp in about 7 minutes.

I add at the last 15 minutes of the boil.... but I don't mess with my hop additions becuase I like hoppy beers :)

a word of warning to southernskies. Don't be disappointed if your first beer isn't very good. There are a lot of things you can do to a good recipe to make it not so good. I ruined EdWort's Haus Ale, so I speak from experience, and it was my 3rd beer. You'll get your technique down and your...

I had the same problem, 185k BTU burner and liquid extract that scorched. I ended up doing late additions. I don't turn off the heat, but I do add it with only about 15 minutes left in the boil. Seems to work out pretty well that way.

I agree with the OP greatly. I enjoy beer when that is all that is on my palate. I find that food especially detracts from my palate and I enjoy the beer less. I perfer a tall glass of milk with most dinners (ESPECIALLY spicy foods) and a tall frosty IPA afterwards for dessert.

I've never had a cigarette between my lips, and I love hoppy beers. love love love. :)

I'm wondering if I should get an aeration system. I do full boils but I have never aerated my wort afterwards. I use a bottling bucket as a primary, and I hold a sanitized strainer over my bucket and open up the valve on the brew kettle. I get a HUGE foamy head on the wort as it goes in. My LHBS...

Amount Item Type % or IBU 4.00 lb Light Dry Extract (8.0 SRM) Dry Extract 53.3 % 2.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 26.7 % 1.00 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 13.3 % 0.50 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 6.7 % 0.50 oz Magnum [14.00%] (60 min) Hops 25.3...