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To be named porter 5.5 SWMBO's Lemon WIT 5.5 2616.5 + 11 = 2627.5

Well luckily for us our LHBS also just happens to be Ballast Point. So she usually comes in with me and we do tastings before shopping! I didn't tell her this but I secretly checked her mash 10 minutes in and it was right at 153. Then just before mash out as I was supervising her reading was...

Well it has finally happened! SWMBO brewed her first batch today! :mug: So SWMBO has been bugging me to make her a Lemon WIT. So I put together a recipe for her and took her down to home brew mart yesterday and we put together a partial recipe with a 6lb grain bill and a bag of wheat extract...

I drink all my samples and they usually taste good or great to me! But then again I don't pull my first sample till the two week mark minimum. Just don't pull and sample so early! But on the other hand as most of us have done when we were new brewers. We would pull too early then think...

This is what I do with my partial batches on my apt electric stove top and it works fine. Especially if you are doing extract with steeping you dont have the DMS issue as a AG batch from what I hear. But regardless I do partials with up to 6lb of grain and have not problems with 3/4 coverage of...

+5 Kitchen Sink IPA +5 SWMBO Strawberry WIT +5 Double Chocolate Stout Total = 38551

Well surgery went ok, the doc did say it was a bad one. Then bladder decided not to work so had to go back to hospital for an ER visit in the middle of the night. Very unpleasant fix for that and i will leave it at that! Then had a reaction to pain pills started to itch and BP dropped way to...

Well less than a week ago I was able to get my latest IPA kegged and on tap, should be good to go in another week or so alongside the SWMBO WIT that just finished carbing up. So Keggerator is freshly stocked. I have 2-3 cases in bottle reserve. Now my problem, I will be going under the knife...

I just did this! I took a 1 gallon growler and racked 1 gallon of the SWMBO WIT onto 1lb of fresh strawberries and it came out awesome. This is a great way to break out a small experimental batch and still have 4+ gallons of a solid beer. The SWMBO WIT will now probably be the SWMBO Strawberry...

Finishing a pint of my new 9 hop IPA and have a bottle of Pliny the Elder waiting be opened

I see that he already dry hopped it but for mine and other future reference what about doing a concentrated HOP tea? Boil like a cup or two of water throw the hops in remove from heat and once cooled pour through strainer into keg then tie up strainer and add as well? Don't think this little...

This is where I like to break out the one gallon carboy and do some testing. I recently made my SWMBO WIT and wanted to add some fresh strawberries. She was against it since she really likes the WIT I make her, hence the name. So when I kegged it up I put a pound of fresh strawberries in a one...

Hoppy IPA Day! After work I will be heading to Ballast Point to try some of their IPA day special taps, then heading home to take a grav reading on my recent IPA. After that I will then pour me a pint of my house IPA to enjoy with dinner!

+5 SWMBO WIT +5 To be named but calling it the Kitchen Sink IPA right now 24392.5 + 10 = 24402.5

I don't trust the water in our complex and the plumbing it comes through. I wont drink it so I wont brew with it. I use bottled spring. I was already planning on heading there tomorrow(linda vista HB location) around that time. :mug: Usually there on Fridays to fill but have plans with...

One of my thoughts as well, also build up or debris in the dip tubes or top of the inside of the keg that is not easily seen or cleaned. No matter how much we run the dip tube brush through or scrub the inside top we still can not see to verify all is clear.

In for the win!

Woo hoo western finals here we come! Sharks!!!!!

12837+10=12847 5gal house IPA 5gal SWMBO Wheat