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Mine was "this tastes like bud light" - which I took as a compliment even though she clearly hated the beer

Yeah, just started this year and have about 50 brews under my belt. I tend to do this with my hobbies, but luckily my wife is very supportive. It helps that she likes drinking (some of) my beers.

I started with a free one gallon kit I got from someone who never used and had always wanted to get into single gallon brewing and just never made the leap. Found a website dedicate to it here: https://www.gallonbrewing.com/ which had a link to the single gallon thread in the beginners forum...

No, I think you misunderstood the purpose and the result. It is comparing no headspace to 1.5 gal of headspace. The idea is to see if 1.5gal of headspace leaves enough oxygen in your fermenter to impact the flavor. You have 20x the amount of headspace and 20x the amount of oxygen. That is...

You did actually read that, right? 1.5gal of headspace is drastically different than 20 gallons.

For a pale ale? 10-14 days is all that’s needed, some people are grain to glass in 7 (or less), depending on the yeast and kegging. Longer is not usually a problem unless you’re doing something like an open fermentation (which you are basically doing), in which case you risk oxidation and...

I just listened to a podcast where he talked about this. He recommended steeping grains that aren't going to extract sugars for a few reasons. Mainly, mashing those grains is pointless since the mash process is only there to extract sugars and these grains don't typically have many/any. More...

I live less than an hour away from the store and haven't had anything earlier than 3 weeks for my last 3 orders. I've basically stopped using them and found this tiny little LHBS that's 5 minutes from my house. It's legit the size of my kitchen with one guy that works there. At this point the...

Just finished Rhythm of War. Can’t wait for my kickstarter books to get here next year. Bought the hardcover of those

Rereading Will Wights Cradle series before the last book is released later this year. I love this series, it’s an action packed king fu fantasy series that removes a lot of fluff. 2-300 pages a piece and now I’ve got my wife hooked. She’s on book 3, which is one of the best

I'm kegging the helles tonight, so we'll see how it goes. The Oktoberfest is nice and malty, it should be very nice by mid September.

Found this thread through Reddit and made one of these today for a used keezer I bought off Facebook marketplace. The stuff that came out of the lines was gross. PBW, let it sit for a few hours, flush with more PBW, a couple rounds of water, finished with some star san, and those babies are...

Here’s my warm fermented lager using 34/70. Just a one gallon batch, but dang if this isn’t gonna go fast. Now that I have a good comparison to Lutra, I can definitely say I prefer a warm fermented lager. Kveik makes a really clean ale, but it just doesn’t compare to this beauty. Fermentables...

When I do single gallon batches I use half for the batch and put the other half in a small sanitized jar for the next batch. Lately I've taken the yeast cake from the 1 gallon batches and pitching that into a 5 gallon batch

Yeah… tried that and my youngest just won’t let it happen (he’s almost two). Just getting the water started while they were around I had to fish a toy out of it, clean up about a gallon of water because he turned the spigot on, had grain thrown in my face as I milled it (twice), and nearly...

3 brews under my belt and I’m really liking this thing. First brew was rough, but I bottled it this weekend and first tastes are right where I’m going for. Bought a grain mill for my second brew, just because I knew I wanted a finer grain and wanted to start getting grain in bulk. Second brew...

Had a cali common that I brewed w/ 34/70 last night and while it still had that unfinished smell to it, the taste was great. Gonna give the rest some time to finish out and I'm sure it'll be a great beer. Tomorrow I bottle up some Oktoberfest I brewed with MJ California Lager yeast. I'll...

That just happened to me last weekend. Brought my carboy up to bottle it and the motion started another active round of fermentation. Put it back and will bottle it tomorrow night instead.

Again, heretic, I just dump it in the bottom before I fill it up. Figure it's no worse than the fizz drops you get from Nothern Brewer and I had a friend that just used a sugar cube per bottle.

It scales pretty linearly, but depending on the size of the batch, you may be able to skip a starter completely. I do a lot of one gallon beers and 1/2 package of either liquid or dry yeast has been plenty for what I throw at it (9-10% max is all I've really tried though). Hops also scales...