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I'm going to brew an IPA tomorrow, focusing on Idaho 7. However, I don't have enough to use it for dry hopping too and do not have access to the hop at my LHBS. I'm looking for suggestions as to what would compliment it well for a dry hop. Right now in my freezer, I have 4oz Azacca, 4oz...

Nope, no leaks. Got the CO2 tank on a scale to check for that. While oxygen could be a/the cause, I find it hard to believe. I could understand how it mutes the aroma, but it shouldn't change the flavor of the beer that quickly (less than 2 weeks out of primary). The yeast comment is...

Appreciate the concern, but my other beers and food and stuff all taste normal. It's just strange. Was in primary for ~2 weeks and has barely been in the keg for 2 weeks. I know some will say "give it time", but more time won't be getting that aroma back.

I brewed a beer a few weeks ago (hoppy pale ale, mix of chinook and cascade, heavier on the chinook). When I sampled after kegging, it had a night bright aroma, tasted good, but was a little thin. Whatever. After a week or so in the keg, tried some, tasted the same. Had one last night...

Give it time, it's only been 3 days so far. I leave my beers in the fermenter for two weeks before even checking FG. Time on the yeast after it's reached FG helps clean up the yeast's party anyway. And, as you will find in half the posts hear, airlock activity does not equal to fermentation...

Those descriptions/explanations/suggestions are very much appreciated! And I've been wanting to make an english bitter soon. I might have to try your recommendation up there. As to the WB-06 beer, I ended up making that a week ago. I went with Mt. Hood in there. Did a late addition but...

That's a pretty tight gap. Is that what you're guessing a corona mill puts out? Yes, I was stirring every 15 mins. Probably one source of heat loss. My guess is the efficiency drop was based on poor crush size of the wheat and the gooey mash holding more of the sugars in. I bet my next...

Yep, this was white wheat malt. Single crushed through 0.025. thinking double crushing it next time would help, or better yet, the corona mill. The mash temp started out at 150F at the start. 30 mins in it dropped to 148-149. After 60 mins it was 147-148. I hit my anticipated preboil...

Hmm, good point. I didn't think of that. Yes, I meant same mill gap. I have it set to the smallest it can go (0.025") for BIAB use. I would imagine that would be good for the wheat, but maybe a double milling should have been in order to make sure the wheat was milled appropriately.

Yep. There's definitely something else at play here, but that accounts for some of it for sure.

Both were at the same starting mash temp of 150F. The AmWheat lost more heat earlier on, and was at 148F at 30 minutes in, and ended the 90 minute mash at 146ish. Could be the lower temperature didn't help the cause. Here's the grain bills for the two beers, with the assumed PPG for the...

Yes, see below. I know there is some discrepancy between volume/SG from pre/post boil. I think that has something to do with using a refractometer (but doesn't account for the large differences I'm seeing). Also, while the volumes were measured at temperature, the ones below were adjusted to...

Two weeks ago I brewed a brown ale (5.5 gallon) and hit all my numbers dead on (within reason). Mashed for 60 minutes and calculated a mash efficiency at 82% (OG of 1.064). Great. Today I brewed a wheat beer (4.0 gallon), mashed for 90 minutes and got a mash efficiency of 72% (OG of 1.050)...

For me, I was gifted two 1-gallon all grain kits for Christmas the same year (just randomly, I ever expressed interest in the hobby before that, odd...). Gave those a try, both turned out horrible, but it was fun, and I kept at making 1-gallons, continually getting better. Not doing much...

Ha, I'll keep that in mind down the road. I might just do a bunch of SMaSH recipies with the ones I don't know much about to check out how they taste.

Cool, thanks. I've been wanting to make an Brittish style IPA. Might have to give that hop schedule a try some time!

So, I may be a sucker, or was just thinking this was fun to buy one night while having a few beers... I bought a "grab bag" of hops (make that TWO grab bags). Each came with 2 ounces each of eight types of hops. Lucky me, both bags came with the same kind of hops, so I have 4 ounces each of...

Use that for the 'set and forget' method. Find your temp on the left and the corresponding pressure.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/spare-post-o-rings-for-cheap.685708/ Check this thread for the o ring sizes, found them at Lowe's