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I've had a few neighbors ask me questions, mostly they just seem interested in beer or bored.

An IPA with 1.5 ounces of flameout hops and no whirlpool or dryhop is going to be extremely underwhelming. A 2-3 ounce dry hop is really the minimum for an IPA these days. A lot of people are doubling that for their beers. I see "two stage" fermentation - are you transferring the beer off the...

I brewed the following: 8.25 lbs Pale 2-row 0.75 lbs White Wheat 0.33 lbs Honey Malt 0.25 lbs Torrified Wheat 0.25 lbs Acid Malt 1.25 oz Willamette @ 60 min 2.00 oz Willamette @ 5 min Single infusion, BIAB full volume. Mashed in @ 150°F, held for 60 minutes, temperature dropped to 147°F by...

IMO I would cut back on the hopshot and add in at least 0.5 ounces of Apollo at 10 or 15. I would also think about replacing 1 - 2 qounces of the Columbus whirlpool with Amarillo, Citra, and/or Mosaic

IMO that looks very much like a NEIPA whereas Sticky Hands is an unabashedly hoppy NWIPA

20 tends to be about as low as most judges will go unless there's something seriously wrong with the beer. I typically rate beers with minor fermentation flaws in the high 20s. A beer that doesn't have any major flaws but doesn't wow me usually gets mid to low 30s. Commercial quality beers...

100% Vienna malt with Amarillo and some Simcoe sounds tasty. I'm not a big fan of Amarillo by itself.

I've never heard of a homebrew competition where you served your own beer out of kegs. Sounds cool - good luck!

+5 gallons Firestone Walker 805 clone; 2421+5 = 2426

I would suggest a gift card to a site like morebeer.com or your LHBS. There's such a wide variety of setups that it's impossible to tell what your buddy would need.

Firestone Walker 805 clone will be kegged mid week.

I've been thinking about going, I'm in Corvallis about 90 minutes south of Portland. Portland around this time of year is beautiful. Obviously tons of great breweries and restaurants but try to take the time to get out and see some of the scenery. The Columbia River Gorge is amazing and only...

It's got to be a production issue at the hose supplier, most likely cheap hoses from China IMO.

If you're brewing to style an American Amber should have American or New World hop flavor and aroma as mentioned above.

$55 shipped to 97333?

It saves me a ton of time, not only is my brewday a lot faster but my equipment setup and cleanup is too.

I moved from fly sparging on a 3 vessel setup to BIAB no sparge in a single vessel.

I also use an RV carbon filter and collect water at a rate of ~0.33 gallons per minute.

This is terrible advice. 7.5 gallons is a normal volume to start a 60 minute boil. 70% is a pretty normal efficiency, I would expect 65 - 75% depending on your setup. Biscuit malt tastes great. 0.75 lbs of crystal is fine. I'm pretty sure Sierra Nevada Pale Ale uses a full lb for 5 gallons...

805 recently became available in my neck of the woods - what a great beer. Seems like one that everyone could enjoy. Thinking about trying out the clone. Any updates on this?