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Thank you very much for your reply! I learned my lesson today.

I had an issue today where I had pitched my yeast and had sealed the lid on the 6.5 gallon container. When putting the air lock, the rubber gasket on the bucket dislodged and fell in. I had already pitched my yeast. In an attempt to recover the air lock gasket, I re strained the worth through...

This helps a lot, I like beers that have a strong grapefruit character and seems like this is the way I should go. Now following you on hopville also, great site!

Thank you very much for pointing that out. I may just cut it out all together as it seems like it might not be complimentary to the desired taste of the Pale Ale.

I believe instead of playing around with fruit I'd rather go with dry hopping as you suggest. Would the Citra hops be adequate for this at a rate of 1oz for seven days?

Thanks Amingo! I know I have some serious work to do on getting these hop schedules down and like the idea of pushing the hops later. Going to try dialing in the hop schedules a bit more.

Daybis, I may have been putting the cart before the horse in playing with the melon idea instead of just getting the basics down first. Thanks for the reply.

I actually hadn't planned on going with a yeast starter however I will definitely take your dry yeast suggestion into consideration as I toy with this a little bit more. Thanks!

I definitely see that now, the information on here is endless! Thank you.

I'm sorry if this is not the place but I'll get used to navigating my around over the next few days. So I have been playing with different recipes and would like to brew a simple pale ale this weekend using extracts. I have used Beersmith to get the presentation down and would appreciate any...

So I decided to get started with home brewing after becoming enamored with craft beer and everything that surrounds it. While at first I felt that my impatience would limit my enjoyment from brewing, I finished up my first kit and am now hooked. I never realized just how simple yet intricate...