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It is clear I have been aging my beer way too long. I just racked a dry-hopped APA to a secondary for clarifying (took fizgig advice and purged with CO2). I tasted the sample I took for gravity measurement and I was really surprised that, except for carbonating, I could drink it right now. No...

My top 5 favorites: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. This is my craft beer first love 3 Floyds Alpha King pale ale. I really like this over Zombie Dust. For me, it is more balanced. 3 Floyds has started a new pale ale style. That was evident at the local ale fest this year. With close to 100...

OK. So you are racking your almost finished beer from the fermentor to a keg with dry hops using C02 pressure. It sounds like a very conservative approach to racking. It does raise some questions: I like the idea of dry hopping it the keg, but how do you keep the hops from fouling the pickup...

I was not sure if this was the right forum to discuss this, so I will be happy to move the thread if I am in the wrong place. I have noticed lately that my hoppy brews have been losing a great deal of hop "definition" from the time primary fermentation is complete until I tap the keg. The...

Yes. The water profile is Burton on Trent and our water in the Chicago area is very soft (Lake Michigan). The water additions are calculated using Beer Smith.

I have been kegging exclusively for 2 years and still have a dozen 12 pack boxes of Sierra Nevada cleaned and de-labelled...so true, so true

When your morning trip to the porcelain throne smells disturbingly like hops.

Well, it doesn't look like you going to have problems with it being over-carbed. If you are having a problem with foam retention, check into LME that includes carapils. I know that the LME from Northern Brewer includes carapils. They have a number of convenient (fast) LME combinations...

It is amazing how many people have not had a craft beer experience. I was talking to a good friend (moved 400 miles away) and talking about brewing craft beer and he had no idea what I was talking about. I had to explain about SNPA and how it was different than Miller Lite - which is what we...

I just tapped my 5K Brewing Chincade IPA. Here's are my tasting notes: Gawwwwdammnn!!! That's good beer. I can taste pink grapefruit, oranges and mango. It is light on the tongue and exotic tasting. The 7.7% ABV is like a sledgehammer but you get no alcohol taste or burn. Wow! I am loopy...

5K Brewing Chincade IPA 5K Brewing Chincade IPA. My first taste notes: Gawwwwdammnn!!! That's good beer. I can taste pink grapefruit, oranges and mango. It is light on the tongue and exotic tasting. The 7.7% ABV is like a sledgehammer but you get no alcohol taste or burn. Wow! I am loopy...

I made this partial mash version which was very close to SNPA: Nierra Sevada - Partial Mash

I just tapped the 5K Brewing Chincade IPA (5K Brewing Chincade IPA). Here are my first taste notes: Gawwwwdammnn!!! That's good beer. I can taste pink grapefruit, oranges and mango. It is light on the tongue and exotic tasting. The 7.7% ABV is like a sledgehammer but you get no alcohol...

Forgot to put the hop filter on the outlet of my boil kettle. Quick recovery by emptying my HLT, putting the filter on its outlet and draining the BK into it. Several times I have been forcing tap water through my pumps by slipping a 1/2" silicone hose over the kitchen faucet. Then I forget...

If I counted right I have made 52 batches in 2.5 years. Of those, I count 2 batches that were duplicated once and 1 batch that was duplicated twice. That is a lot of different beers. That said, I have been trying to get more scientific about my beer recipes. I just finished a series of 10...

21,585 + 25 - 5 APA batches + 10 - 2 IPA batches Total = 21,620

Chinook / Cascade (I call it Chincade) IPA ready to drink in 2 days Chincade APA being dry-hopped. Recipes (and many more) here: http://5kbrewing.com/

Saw it and really liked it. I have seen all Brew Dogs episodes (so far as I can tell). I really enjoyed the time with UC Davis Professor Bamforth and wish there had been some time inside Sierra Nevada and Bear Republic. There were some other episodes which were really interesting. There is...

So...I'm sitting here watching the Brew Dogs in N. California and am reminded of my first craft beer. They started this adventure at UC Davis with Professor Charlie Bamforth, the "Pope of Foam". Anyhow the first thing Charlie pulls out is a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and all declare it is the...