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Just brewed a lovely brown ale. I was attempting to copy the surly bender.

My blood tea looked pinkish red, and almost gave the wort a slight pinkish color. Thats probably because I made a light hefe using white wheat. The finished beer looks hazy and straw colored, no sign of the oranges. Let us know how it turns out with eight oranges.

jtkratzer, As mentioned above I used 6 blood orange fruits added during a week in fermentation. The blood oranges were about billiard size and I had a batch of 5 gallons. I think its a perfect amount of citrus. Any more would be too much. I thionk this is one of the better beers I have brewed!

This bugs me. There is nothing wrong with what you did. I brew with my friends young daughter.

Just bottled this yesterday I had great citrus notes. I added the peel of four oranges to the boil, and then the fruit from six blood oranges into the fermenter when one would normally rack. I did this by boiling the fruit in a little water and then adding it to the carboy. This was a five...

Looks fine.

long primary. Ive got a hefe in the primary and am not going to rack. You want cloudiness and yeasty profile.

SWMBO came back from Wisconsin with 2 pick your own six packs full of microbrews. Doing research for our next brew... Finally got to try me some dogfish head. Loved it

Let it go some more. That seems to be high for a final gravity.

Doing it now...

Just did a Dogfish head IPA, It's bubbling away and smelling hoppy.

WOW!! Just read the whole thread. Im happy to see your progress and am inspired. Hopefully something like this is in my future. Best of luck to you.

My flight got cancelled once so I decided to brew. After a few homebrews I realized I was alone and finished the brew naked. Fortunately no injuries resulted from those actions.

Never done it, at first it seemed like a waste but then again its another excuse to brew

I have a similar story. I've converted three of my friends and working on a fourth. The fourth drinks too much beer to be interested in anything other than cheap beer.

Charlie Papazian's first edition.

I would not put moth balls near my grain even if they were bagged.

jealous.

Just brewed this baby today.

Congrats it gets more rewarding the more you learn