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Yooper, do you consider FWH to be your bittering addition or do you add another once you reach boil and hot break?

I haven't tried this myself so I'm clueless here, but this surprises me. Won't all/most of the aroma from the first wort hops fly away over the course of a 60-90 minute boil? I would have expected FWH to result almost exclusively in bitterness and some flavor. It seems counterintuitive to...

Only if I have to. 99.5% of the time I use a glass. I just wanna get the hop aroma.

I'll just offer my own little anecdote here and say it's not a bad idea. My first all-grain brew I was worried about efficiency and didn't want to end up with a really weak brew. I wanted to make an IPA, so I went ahead and bought enough ingredients for a double IPA. I knew if my efficiency...

Sorry to go off-topic, guys, this is a good thread to have around and have discussion in.

Heh. Actually, I'm a man. You've made my point for me, though, by assuming that only a woman would grow tired of hearing men harp about the dangers of domineering women. Thanks for the help. I'm assuming you had a bad relationship with your mom or an ex-wife, and I'm very sorry about that...

Beersmith puts that 8oz bittering addition at about 745 IBUs. Doesn't even factor in additional bitterness from later additions. While I've never had a beer that was too bitter, and have made some 200 IBU beers that I loved, even I think that is probably too extreme or at the very least...

Ah, it wouldn't be a thread on homebrewtalk if someone's latent resentment toward women didn't come out sooner or later.

8 or 9 bottles of 10% beer? I don't think there is any mystery as to why your stomach gets upset after that. Aside from that clue, do you pour the whole bottle into the glass, sediment and all, or do you leave the dregs in the bottle with a careful pour to keep some yeast out of your glass?

Hey dug, you might have more luck in the kegging forum. No tips from me, unfortunately, but those are my batch sizes too and I'd be interested in hearing the responses.

Good point. I've seen a couple triples (Founders Devil Dancer is very nice), and I'm sure a quadruple IPA will be at my local beer store next summer. It'll be an arms race, like the way razor companies fight to fit the most blades into their disposables.

I've been told a double IPA is something like 7.5 to 8.5% and an imperial is something like 8.5+. (This is how a local brewery explained their classification to me. I'm sure it's not universal) I never worry too much about it either way, but if it's 10% I know I'll call it an imperial.

Have you tested your boil rate on your system? I have an 8 gallon pot that is fairly wide and evaporates 2 gallons of water an hour. Have you also tested how much dead space is in your mash tun? I've seen setups that will leave a half gallon of wort in the tun after draining, and the same...

Your spouse will know better than anybody, certainly more than an aunt but even more than yourself because we have built in defense mechanisms that we subconsciously protect ourselves with. If she doesn't see a problem, you are probably just fine and you have nothing to worry about. Respect her...

I'd love to try carbing in a keg before bottling, especially when I try to make a zombie killer clone soon, so if you try it again let us know if it works better the second time around and what you might have done different to make it work for you. Maybe try new gaskets?

I've had no issues with carbonation in EZ Cap bottles either. I batch prime with corn sugar as well.

Just to play devil's advocate, the National Institutes of Health says that more than 14 drinks a week puts you at risk of an alcohol use disorder. Your numbers put you between 20 and 25 a week. Does this automatically mean you will become an alcoholic or already are one? Of course not, but it's...

Part of the confusion might be coming from a trend I've noticed lately of some breweries making bigger pale ales that they call "imperial" pale ales. Another brewery might make this same beer and call it a "session" IPA. So if you see a listing for an "imperial pale ale," it's a bigger pale...

I guess I just don't see the point in drinking 1200 calories a night, so I don't get why anyone wants be able to drink 6 beers at a time. When I have a beer, I want it to be full flavored, exploding with hops, and able to help me wind down at the end of the day. A nice 7, 8, 10% IPA does that...

If you like Stone Ruination, it's not going to be too much. You might want to move a lot of those additions to between 15-0 minutes to preserve more flavor and aroma. Nothing going in for the last 15 will drive a way a lot of the aroma. Using later additions will lower bitterness but give you...