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Welcome to the hobby. The first brew is always an exciting moment. What’s your next brew?

Nice haul!

First pour HB lager. 80/20 2row/corn w sonnet hops.

Cat sitting for my mom. Charlie and Mick: Girls being problems: Edgar with an itch. It reminds me of the gnr use your illusions cover even though it’s not even close.

Low and slow on the mash. I won't mash as long as two hours, but if I want to push the FG down a few points, I'll add a good half hour to my normal mash time and make sure my mash starts at about 148. By the time I am ready to boil, the mash temp would have gotten as low as 144, which is...

I can't see the recipe, but as far as the steps you have listed, the only thing that seems odd to me is the temperatures. My C to F conversion is sketchy at best, but 69C seems warm. I would want a Czech lager to finish quite low, so I would probably mash around 148-150F, which is around 65C I...

A beer never tastes better than at 5-7am after a long overnight shift. I enjoy the hell out of that every 2 or 3 weeks.

It's something I looked into a couple years ago when I started making lagers, but was too timid to actually try. It might be time to give it a shot sometime this year though. Perhaps not on this stout, but I should be considering steps more often when I brew some lagers and hefeweizens.

Interesting. I've only ever really done single infusion mashes and most at full volume. I'd like to keep doing that as much as possible. I've probably been lucky thus far as I haven't had syrupy situations in my other rye brews, but I bet I havent crossed that line yet. Maybe I'm better off...

Based on you and @AlexKay I might have to boost that rye malt up to a higher degree. Brewing with rye always gets me excited about the next brew day, which is hopefully only a couple weeks away. Maybe I'm mixing up rye malt vs flaked rye a little bit. I agree with the spicy vs earthy. Ive...

Good info, thank you. OG I’m shooting for us about 1.063 or so. So hopefully I’d avoid that motor oil pour. Completely agree on the crystal and chocolate rye. I love both but I’m out of the chocolate until my next grain purchase and that’s at least a few months out. The crystal still came out...

BBQ chicken with the Thai-ish peanut sauce my wife has nearly perfected. With red pepper, snap peas, and pickled banana peppers. Yes.

I didnt realize this was even a thing. Sounds amazing.

So, I enjoy rye beers. I make a decent rye pale ale, and a really solid rye lager. There's not a ton of rye beers out there commercially. Found summit frost line rye IPA last spring and its outstanding. But one thing I never considered was a rye stout, until I found this: Repo Man® It's a...

Morning beer with Zelda. The tiger is stomping around behind me but this might be my first one with Zelda. She’s pretty young, don’t tell my wife.

Morning beer with Margaret.

^ That makes sense too. Didn't think of that since I've always still only boiled pilsner malt for 60m with no issues.

Perhaps you had overshot on water volume and boiled longer to get closer to target volume and OG? Substituted nugget in place of a higher AA% hop? Had a limited quantity of hops and boiled longer to gain more IBU? Got drunk during the mash and took a nap during the boil?