So far on my road to brew a farmhouse ale "from field to glass"~
A friend and I have planted and harvested about 60 pounds of barley and needs to be malted. This took 2 years because the first year it was planted in the winter and froze. We have grown 10 pounds of red wheat as will.
we have...
SO I ask why wild yeast? the hops are home grown form purchased stock and the barey is homegrown form seeds purchased. Why is harvesting yeast at home considered different then homegrown?
My friend and I grew about 60 pounds on Conlon 2 row summer barley over the summer and I have been waiting for some time to malt. Our first time. This thread is great reading.
Do you know the time in hours it took for you to go from the beginning of wetting the grain to the start of the drying...
hope this helps as to why the lid is off during boil
http://beersmith.com/blog/2016/03/01/boiling-home-brewed-beer-with-dr-charlie-bamforth-beersmith-podcast-121/
I say this is a Good beer.
The label says 8.5% DIPA ~ Brewed with Galena, Chinook, Pacific Jade and Simcoe and has 2 large dry hoped additions
contact the brewery they may help. I called them when I was there and they made time for a tour Chris was head brewer truly a great person he has moved...
IMO you are not going to get a quality balance of malt/hop you might percive there is not hops in your first sip. Maybe go to a 75 min boil.
I just saying
sell raffel tickets to a "back yard feast". Deliver to the winner... burgers, dogs, saugage, salads, ice cream, beer, soda, a bushel of crabs or clams or lobsters.
Whatever beer Raffel
move away from kits and use grains and DME or LME.
Deside what beer you like (if you were learning about wine I would say pick a grape you like) Then look up recipes like on homebrewtalk, beersmith, beertools, byo mag., beertoad. whatever
Use the recipe as a guide and change it just a little...