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So I didn't put this in there but man did this beer have a fruity, floral nose in the bottling bucket. My wife asked me if it was bottling flowers, lol! It does smell great and I am pretty excited to try this. Going to pop one in the fridge on wednesday and sample it sunday. I've got an...

D'Oh! what happened? Does flickr not work here?

This is good..was gonna age half, gonna go buy another 4 pack and put that down in the basement till the winter.

Subscribed...no time this year, but next summer I'd like to try my hand a hops... If you have any notes or pictures from construction to share that would be awesome!!

Bottling Sunday, out of town at my brother in laws wedding...dropped about 1 or 2 points since I added dry hops so 1.016...hops are all a bit muddled right now..excited to get it carbed and start drinking it in 3-4 weeks

I'd let it warm back up to 70 ish and give it a two or three days and then check your gravity, if you haven't had a change in gravity then pitch new yeast... I was also thinking that you don't have to worry too much about oxygen right now. Your yeast still has a bit of work to do and the...

No, unfortunately standard 12/22 oz bottles will not handle the pressure of the yeast finishing off that beer, which means potential bottle bombs. You can either stick it in the fridge or put it somewhere cold (below 60F) and that will pretty much put the yeast to sleep and stop...

So I would like to convert my house pale grain bill into a rye pale ale. I'm thinking about 20% of the bill should be Rye. Here is the grain bill for my house pale 8# 2 row 1.5# Vienna .5 # 60L .5# Carapils Should I just drop the 2 row 2# and replace it with Rye, should I replace the...

Checked gravity today 1.017 so about 74%, hoping to get another point or two. Added dry hops and used a hop bag for the first time with a dry hop, so we'll see how that goes, not sure how I feel about it. Tasted pretty good, not a ton of hop presence right now and the roastiness is pretty...

I think primary has winded down...it was pretty vigourous for a while there..I was out of town with the family last weekend so I haven't check gravity yet...hope to tomorrow and get my dry hop in there by sunday..will update when I do...has smelled pretty good the few times I check on it last week

Woohoo, 5.33g of 1.067 wort tucked away and put to bed. Overall pretty smooth, I wound up with more wort then could fit into my kettle so I wound up having to boil for about 2 hours. Pitched my slurry at 64f, nice and easy brew day.

Tried this today, it's been on oak for about 8 weeks, going to give it 2 more weeks and then pull the oak. its got a nice presence but is not over powering by any means. There is a nice subtle sweetness and still has a bit of warmth, its 10.63%. Gravity has dropped 2 pts since I added the...

Brewing tomorrow!! made some slight adjustments to the hop schedule. My CTZ is 17.1% so I am First Wort Hoping with it and rounded a bit to make the additions even: 1 oz CTZ FWH 1 oz CTZ/Cascade at 12 1 oz all at 0 1 oz all Dry Hop 7 days 73 IBU Planning to mash at 154/155; the washed yeast...

Stopped by the LHBS today. I forgot to write down the exact weights when I left the house at 6am so I went with: 11 # 2 row 2 # Dark Munich (German) .5# Victory .5# Carapils Mill set to .4 (went with Double Crush) 1 # Carafa 3 Crushed seperate (single crush) Also picked up the...

So I am just getting color from the Carafa, does it add too much harshness if you mash it? Just sparging extracts enough color? Do I get any fermentables or should I just remove the Carafa when calculating expected OG?

Another question - I've never used Gypsum, is it strictly necessary? If so when do you add it? I add campden tablet to my strike water, add Gypsum then? Thanks - Chris

Hey this recipe looks pretty awesome, and I just happen to have a # each of Stryrian, Cascade and Columbus burning a hole in my freezer. Also, planning on using 1056 since I have some washed in the fridge. Will I be losing much going with American Ale 1? Pretty excited!!

my Citra Wheat with 3944...needs another week I think, my wifes American Citra Wheat is delicious and well carbed..thats probably next

It's malted. If it's unmalted it will say specifically. I use the wiki chart here https://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/Malts_Chart it's very helpful.

BierMunchers Litehaus Wheat with Belgian Wit yeast and coriander and a Barleywine I just added 1 oz of Oak cubes soaked in Whiskey to.