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I'm using sugar to dry out the beer. I have a suspicion the amber DME I'm using isn't as fermentable as I want it to be. :/ I don't want these ones to end up 7 points away from the est. FG, like my 1st brew. Alas, I can't get my hands on any honey malt in time, and I haven't really found any...

Any beer over 4,7% ABV is so effing expensive in Norway, it's hard not to save money in the long run.. We're talking 8-10 dollars for a bottle of Brooklyn Lager (5,2%?).. Even a Sam Adams Boston Lager (4,7%) is 6 dollars here. The way I see it, I'm making an investment when I'm buying kettles...

I'm brewing a "regular" IPA and a double IPA this weekend as my 2nd and 3rd brews. As I'm pretty darn new at this, I hoped some of ye olde brewers would have a look at my recipes and comment on anything that might be "off" with them. :) NB! Everything is listed in metrics Green Bastard...

Seems plausible. :) Thanks! I'll dry hop this batch later today then, and we'll see in a few weeks how it turns out. :)

Alrighty. It's a given that I'm not very experienced with Beersmith yet, but what is that program on about when it states est. FG to be 1.011? :)

Forgot to add that my OG was 1.059 (est .054). All readings have been temp.corrected. :)

Classic question here.. My APA is stuck at 1.023 after 10 days in the primary (measured after 7 days and after 10 days). Estimated FG in Beersmith is 1.012. I used 2,6kg Amber DME and 0,5kg CaraMalt 25l in an 18 litre batch. After cooling the wort, I pitched 2 packs of rehydrated US-05...

Switch to metric... ;)

Great! I had a feeling (and probably read it somewhere) that full boils were best when it came to extracts too. I boiled off 6 litres (!) during the 30 min steep and 60 min boil, so yeah.. Need to increase the amount of water I start with, I guess. Thanks, people! :)

I'm a noob in all aspects when it comes to brewing beer. I've read quite a bit about it before I set into this, but for some reason I boiled the entire 20 (actually 24) litres of water I used for the boil. First warmed it to 70 deg.cel. to steep the cara malt, then boiled it all for 60 mins with...

Thanks for good answers! I think we'll steer away from my "version" of first wort.. :) And that chilling-idea was something I hoped was possible!

Thanks for the reply! Palmer explains first wort hopping here: http://howtobrew.com/section1/chapter5-1.html I don't know if I should do it though, since we do an extract brew, and the wort isn't slowly coming from a lauter tun.

Me and a pal recently (3 weeks ago) brewed a 5gal batch of Cooper's IPA. Foolish as we were, we followed the recipe on the can. In addition, we did a bunch of other rookie mistakes. It's still in the bottle, so we haven't had the chance to try it yet, but I suspect it's less than perfect... :P...