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If it still tastes good, chill it down and drink it quickly! Unless you like sour beers you probably won't enjoy it after another week or so.

Hm, two great ideas. Thanks guys! I've done one great Mild before, but decided to let it age a bit after bottling and lost all the great flavor. Maybe I'll use the Mild to grow a nice yeast pitch for a great big English Brown.

I haven't brewed in about a month and just emptied my last fermenter on Friday. Time to refill the pipeline but none of the recipes I've seen recently really excite me. Most of my beers this year have been moderately hoppy blonde ales and I'm looking for something different. I'd like to find...

I had some similar issues, and came to a similar conclusion. Also, when replacing my bucket I specifically got one without a hole drilled in the lid then kept it sealed and half full of StarSan when not in use. Every few days or whenever I walked by I would shake it really well. Then I...

What exactly was the effect - increase or decrease in efficiency? And what's your typical water/grain ratio? I've been fiddling with my mash thickness for a while now and am having some trouble getting the sparge volume right.

I've been using a 10 gallon Polarware with false bottom as an upgrade from the 5 gallon water cooler with reasonable success. My typical beer doesn't involve step-mashing but I do use the burner for a mash-out step. Constant stirring for 10 minutes isn't that difficult but I have had concerns...

Try a little keg lube or other food-grade lubricant around the gasket next time - it might help create the seal you're missing. Just a guess...

Brewed my first Belgian today, a simple pale ale intended to be a session beer for SWMBO's birthday party. Unfortunately I missed my OG badly, falling 8 points short, but decided to try making up the gravity by adding some sugar to the primary. As a ballpark I figured 1.5lb light brown sugar...

I guess we've reached that point in our lives, because SWMBO keeps bringing it up... She's ready to get pregnant and has a hard time accepting that I still feel a little leery of the prospect. I had never fully considered the idea of raising a child before, and now that I do it feels really...

They throw dry ice into the kettle so it "boils", but without all that pesky heat or hop utilization.

Wow... the way I mix 'em that would take a lot of rum! I don't see any reason you couldn't pour a bunch of 2 liters into the keg, add a few handles of rum, then carbonate. Just be careful filling the keg so you don't get too much foaming.

Actually I had the same problem with a Scottish 80/- and eventually the banana flavor pretty much disappeared. I think it took many months of aging at room temp but eventually it was a pretty good beer. I don't remember the specific timeframes, this was one of my early beers and it prompted me...

I prefer American IPAs and other hoppy styles as young as possible, while the fruity yeast esters will still complement the flavor hops. 2 weeks sounds perfect for a low gravity IPA or highly hopped pale ale.

Looks like a hybrid IPA, with the extremes of both American and British versions of the style. I like it!

+1 for the blonde ale - light, fruity and drinkable. If your fermentation temp control isn't dead on you might try a Belgian pale but make sure it finishes dry.

If you're worried about the gravity drop from using some LME, just add a few ounces of table sugar at the end of the boil. Depending on the style it might be great. But I'm sure it will be great without it too. :)

So you're basically replacing some of the flavor and aroma hops with the orange peel. Makes sense, but you couldn't hurt it by adding more flavor hops. With a mash temp at 155 you shouldn't need extra body. Have you calibrated your thermometer? Those mash temps may not be what you think...

I don't think I could wait 3 months to drink this one! Your hop flavor and aroma additions will fade significantly in that time. Maybe that was 2 weeks primary and 1 week keg conditioning? Yeast can strip the aromatics from hops, so you're better off moving to a secondary or keg before...

Sounds like time to invite a few of the guys over to drink it all!

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