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Wow a Grand Cru is what she had a taste for.. lol. It's almost weird what you find people start to like. I guess I project my own tastes on others too much.

Great success! That's a good brewing to convert to haha.

^ agree. You'll prolly want at least 3oz of hops somewhere throughout the boil for an IPA. 60min boil 1oz cent 30min boil 1oz cascade 10min boil 1oz cascade 5days of 1oz cascade dryhopped

Bevmo's pitfall is cuz they refrigerate all the BMC's but they leave craft on the shelves to rot. Other than that... Bevmo's a great place to find new beers.

update: I had my beer after a month now and the off flavors are much less pronounced. this actually tastes quite like BP's sculpin ipa and somewhat like manzanitas chaotic ipa. I think the sculpin actually has the same grassy after taste as this. now I don't feel so bad it has that taste. i...

Man that sux fat balls to not have peeps to drink with...

Danstar says the recommended temp is between 57F and 70F, I'd just leave it at 63F for another few days. What's the gravity at right now? Danstar says to start the fermentation at around 63F. If you plan on brewing it cold like you did, you'd have to expect it to take more like 3-4 weeks, cuz...

For the steep, I brought it up to where you just start getting little bubbles at the bottom of the kettle, flame out and steeped for 30 min, with the lid on. I definitely am going to move to kegging, I just have to justify it with the wife, maybe the fact that my $60 of ingredients for this...

it's been a week since bottling so i threw one in the fridge and am now tasting it. not sure how to describe the aroma/taste. but it's definitely off... I think I left it at 73F too long, cuz when I tasted it before it's full attenuation, it didn't have this off taste. the off taste is...

How did the Brown taste? (I always put aside a glass of it while bottling it haha)

I haven't used honey before, but from what I read, it takes a long time to fully ferment (3-5 weeks?). In other words if you only ferment your primary for a week or two, you'll only get a partial fermentation of the honey, allowing it to be used to flavor as well as slightly increasing abv. From...

I checked my gravity again last night and it was at 1.023, so I went ahead and bottled it last night. There was quite a thick layer of trub at the bottom of the bucket, I'd say about 2.5 inches high. (My first batch was prolly around 1.5 inches high) Must be all the extra hops that attributed to...

=) that's awesome. it's like feeling when u share a little known album with someone and they start to really enjoy it. my condolences for ur late wife.

I don't care for Kolch beers. It's too champagne like.

Oaked Arrogant Bastard

My step-dad has always been a light beer drinker. Keystone light and the like. He'd have a Guinness or something "stouty" once in a blue moon, but nothing out of the ordinary. A year ago, he and my mom brewed some beer together (mr beer), and he never really cared for the beers they'd make, but...

take a gravity measurement and wait a day or two and take another. if it's still dropping, just wait another few days. my beer's been in the primary since the 14th as well and it's still going.

okay just checked my gravity. it's current at 1.024. so definitely still making progress!

no it's a good question. I think that's one of the things I can execute better. I do spin it. but I'm using the little cylindrical container the hydrometer comes with, and I'm guessing that can't be a good way to do it cuz you can't prevent it from touching the sides. but I do take my time with...

I do have the complete joy of homebrewing. it's fermentation graph shows there's not much more activity after a week (at least with respect to making alcohol). I think in my instance the yeast crashed somehow. maybe 64F was too cold for it? but either way it's showing activity now after I raises...