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Drinking red hook IPA at Lanikai- a beach I used to frequent in Hawaii- new acquaintance tells me I'm "supposed to drink those on cold winter days". No I will not.

Racked to secondary last night. Smells incredible. Gravity steady at 1.036. Now I have the secondary sitting in my "cold room" (it stays around 58 degrees F) in the dark. Now to wait. A long time.

From the reading I took last night, I let the cylinder sit in the fridge overnight to drop everything to the bottom so I could taste it. Surprisingly good- chocolatey, roasty, full flavor- but unsurprisingly astringent. I think a long time in the bottle is going to make this a great beer, though.

Thanks I appreciate that. The gravity is at 1.036 right now and it seems to have stopped. Going to give it two more weeks in primary, move to secondary for a month, then bottle until Christmas.

Barley tea.

Lol next brew I will lower the roast, raise the yeast, raise the hops, and I think add some caramel grains.

I'm sorry- I only have a tentative grasp of what any of those things mean- I just know what they relate to. I'll adjust for bitterness and roast as I do this beer over and over.

Thanks- I went and asked the local expert who runs the store and he said the same. Also said that 200 billion will be plenty. But yeah there is a ton of roast- I like a lot but if I don't like this one, I'll be modifying as I go. I think next time I'll be cutting back on roast and upping the...

This is one I'm working on- I want this to be my best beer, so the recipe is gonna change a few times. This is the only one I plan on doing until I nail it.

I had them started for a while- 200 billion cells even without the starter, so it should be good- I plan on adding a third after a couple days, just to make sure, tho.

I think it'll be a great beer. Should be a good one to condition. Not big in that myself, but with the ABV on this one, I think I'll try it.

Brewed last night, bubbling away right now. O.G. 1.106 Ingredients: 6 gallons distiller water 15mL (1tbs) calcium hypochlorite 1 oz whirlfloc tablet 12lbs light liquid malt extract 1lb Briess dry malt extract, dark 2oz Columbus hops 2oz chinook hops 2 1056 (American Ale) wyeast packs 2lbs...

Thank you.

It must have been the sugar- I just pulled another sample and got 1.054 so I'm good. I knew something was wrong.

Just finished up the brew day, third beer I'll have done- partial mash honey cream ale with vanilla and pecan. The sample is incredibly cloudy with particulate matter which I'm sure is to be expected. I'm wondering, though- could this particulate matter be throwing off my OG reading? It...

+ 5 gallons vanilla pecan cream ale. 41725

Ahh ok I see what I did wrong. I'm gonna use that calculator now- this table I have is difficult for me to understand. Sidenote- apparently three beers at ~7% is all it takes for me to suck at math.

OK **** idk what is going on with this app but it keeps telling me that my post cannot be posted, I try again later, then I end up looking like an ******* lol. I'm gonna try to restart the app I guess.

Original gravity was 1.075. Final was 1.020. Maybe my math is off but three bottles is all I can tolerate.