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Hey, I'm bottling my batch of Port O' Palmer this weekend!

I had my first taste of this brew last night (bottled on 9/27) and it had carbed up nicely though it had a bit of chill haze since I had only popped the one test bottle in the fridge just the night before. Came out really tasty! Far better than I had hoped for. (A friend and SWMBO thought so...

I have a bottle of the Bruery's Autumn Maple sitting at the house. I'm looking forward to trying it though I may save it for Thanksgiving.

Pumking is good especially if you like vanilla flavoring. I actually like the Weyerbacher better though for an Imperial pumpkin. My favorite standard commercial pumpkin beer though is Smuttynose Pumpkin. Very good pumpkin flavor without overdoing the spices (especially cloves like Brooklyn's...

I agree, the same thing happened to me when I got into knifemaking and bladesmithing, incredibly obsessed. Couldn't stop thinking about equipment, heat treating temperatures, alloy constituents, carbon migration, blade geometry, quenching oils, etc. etc. etc.. It all eventually reaches a natural...

Another vote for The Thief here, incredibly easy to use.

Well it appears I may have posted this in the wrong forum (lol). Any takers? Am I calculating hop additions correctly by plugging in only the LME and steeping grain bill for my boil?

Just wanted to make sure I'm doing this correctly (on for example beercalculus). So I'm brewing a five gallon batch of IPA with an original gravity of 1.070 but I'm only boiling three gallons AND I'm doing a late addition of half of my extract (which makes my boil gravity much lower)...

Honestly I have no idea why I drank that entire Pumking by myself. I may never want another Imperial Pumpkin again! :drunk: Sierra Nevada Porter is one of my favorites and I have five gallons of Palmer's Port O'Palmer Porter from "How to Brew" needing to be bottled this coming weekend (it's...

I drank the Dogfish Head Punkin mixed with a Sierra Nevada Porter other than the mix is delicious (and then drank the second half of each mixed again just so...)... (on a side note, any pumpkin and porter on hand mixed so is better by far than the sum of the two) Don't ask me why I then drank...

Well I can definitely see how it would be good to develop the habit of taking beginning gravity readings. People, being people, often find it hard to break either good or bad habits. The process is becoming much more familiar now even after only two batches so adding a hydrometer reading on brew...

Cool, I do take final gravity readings so I will have the practice for when I go all grain (or even partial grain for that matter). I've only used it once but the Thief worked like a champ for taking the sample. Star San however nearly made i impossible to read the hydrometer.

Well I'm afraid you have me there, I was buying the ingredients for an IPA on the fly at my LHBS and wanted a full ounce of Chinook but they didn't have the plugs I wanted to use so I picked up a full ounce of Columbus instead. I haven't calculated the final recipe/amounts yet but if the only...

Is there any particular reason to take a original/beginning gravity reading of an extract beer? Even the specialty grains are easily calculable based on the amount used.

I need a full ounce of bittering hops for an IPA recipe. I have half an ounce of Chinook already, think it would be ok to add half an ounce of Columbus (Tomahawk) I also have to make up the full ounce?

I was probably thinking of something a little closer to 13-14. From your experience it sounds like a full pound of 60 might just do it.

Well I just bottled my first batch this Monday and I forgot to tip out the little accumulation of liquid Star San solution on at least half the bottles. I was wondering the same thing so in a few weeks I'll be keeping an eye out for bottles that might taste differently from each other. I'm no...

I'll be happy to add the picture to the bottling thread (not sure how much wisdom however!) :D Actually I had bought a racking cane for just this use and I was about to transfer the beer from the fermenter to the bucket when I remembered I had forgotten to cut the thing and fit it up so it...

LOL, my family does not like the look of the hops, especially in the strainer in the kitchen sink. They say they look like bug wings or something! I couldn't resist using hop plugs instead of pellets and I was so ready to have the beer in the fermenter that I just poured it all in, hops and...

I will be working on an extract with steeping grains American style IPA recipe soon. I like IPAs with a lot of amber color rather than paler versions, should I target a deeper color only with specialty grains (i.e. one pound of crystal 60 rather than a half pound)? Add a bit of a deeper colored...