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I did end up using a touch of crystal malt, mashed around 149, and the beer was not too sweet. 3lbs of rye with the 2-row scaled back. The Nelson was extremely pungent coming out of fermentation, to the point that I was worried that I'd overdone it. It mellowed beautifully in the bottle...

Old thread, but I brewed this beer and it's history now. So good, it went really really fast...my mom and sister don't usually like hoppy beers, but they both loved it. I ended up using rye in the grain bill, FW hopping with Nelson instead of using Magnum, and splitting the dry hop between...

So I got my false bottom and diptube for my keggle, and I'm having some difficulty getting it installed. Here's my setup: ball valve > keg wall > rubber gasket > bargainfittings weldless bulkhead (the one with the washer and nut welded to the nipple) > 1.25" coupling > dip tube threaded thingy...

Yeah, I started with the Alpine Nelson clones out on the web and worked from there. I scratched the rye because my brew buddy doesn't want to use it, and Alpine uses Southern Cross along with the NS, and the SC is unavailable and there doesn't appear to be much in the way of substitutes for it...

Hi all, I'm going to brew an IPA featuring Nelson Sauvin and am wondering about 1) the grain bill and 2) the hop schedule. Please let me know what you think. I'm thinking of changing my mash temp to 150 or so to try to get a bet drier a beer to showcase the Nelson. Also, my thought with...

Alrighty, I'll play with it and make notes of what I do...still learning my way around the software. But in terms of my brew, going ahead with the dry hopping won't cause any issues, right?

Hey all, I've got my first AG batch, an APA, sitting in secondary right now (racked 4 days ago i believe) and had a question about dry hopping. I followed the fermentation schedule laid out by beersmith for my recipe. It said the dry hop for the weeklong period I selected after the 10-11...

That's just the thing. Why jump into something without knowing much about it beyond knowing that I love the finished product? What's wrong with buying a book to learn more history about the craft beer movement and finding myself excited to do what its pioneer homebrewers did? What's wrong...

Thanks for the tips, again, folks. Organ, I didn't want to come off preachy, but that's the downside of communicating in forums...I know you and the others saying to slow down mean no offense. Just trying to communicate that i wasn't diving in and blindly blowing a wad of cash but carefully...

Appreciate all the comments, folks...not trying to come in here as an aggressive new guy, but I've carefully thought about doing extract or partial boils vs. AG for going on half a year. I'm a tinkerer, and that's one of things about all grain that appeals to me. I cook because I like learning...

Hi all, I've been interested in home brewing for about 6 months (after reading Microbrewed Adventures, I came to the conclusion that I needed to do this and started saving). A friend started brewing a couple of months ago with extract, and I've talked to him a lot recently. I've decided to...