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with 10lbs of 2 row you have a hell of a black IPA going there for you

I'm waiting for mine to bottle condition... my test bottles (12oz) have all been flat... dead flat. i'm wondering if my corn sugar syrup didnt mix well enough. Fingers crossed that my bombers will be OK, since a majority of the batch is in bombers. I'd hate to have to dump the whole batch. I...

i think you're missing something.. because my plug-in gave me 1.067 as a target SG

Fermentation doesn't necessarily need to be airtight. Anchor brewing does shallow, open air fermentation with filtered air. Airlocks & airtight containers just reduces possibility of wild yeast and bacteria.

my LHBS sells the 15.5 gallon casks that bulk extracts come in for $10.. for $15 they give you a bung, airlock, and 5 food grade bag inserts. a garbage can isnt a half bad idea though!

I said the same thing once. I HATED hoppy beers Then i tried a fresh and unmolested home brewed American ipa WOW! I still find nearly all commercial craft hoppy beers undrinkable. It's just not fresh. My last brew was an American ipa, used 7oz of hops, and isnt even bitter. Glad you joined...

I'm going to attempt brandon O's graff recipe today, going to use US05 from a starter and cascade. I'm going to get a locally sourced unpasteurized fresh cider, no preservatives. Should I use campden tablets first before adding the wort and pitching? Or just screw it, brew the wort and pitch...

You are rinsing residual sugars and flavors out of the grains. My boils are about a gallon loss per hour of boil. My all grain batches are set up to shoot for about 6.1 gallons of pre boil wort. After a 60 minute boil if I have done everything right I should hit my target gravity and have just...

nothing. its pretty rare a commercial brew makes me go WOW THATS AWESOME. i had a belgian ale yesterday from Weyermacher that was knock your socks off good. but i didnt buy it.

is it bottled or kegged? i'm assuming bottled. next question: are the bottles warm enough?\ have you turned the bottles over in a desperate attempt to rouse the yeast?

looks like a krausen that hasnt fallen

I made a similar APA/AIPA using a similar grain bill with simcoe, cascade and citra, dry hopping with cascades. It was VERY citrus forward and not bitter at all, but after a month in the bottle it faded quickly. it's still a delicious beer but not as citrus as it was when young. I'd recommend...

dammit. i followed the original recipe typo of 1/2oz at 1min... o well. it'll be close. i bottled today. the beer is VERY alcohol hot...im sure aging will help. the honey notes were gone (or hidden by the alcohol heat), but i'm sure i'll enjoy it. I'm going to give this one a full 3 week...

Mine is getting bottled today...when I racked it to secondary it was delicious and still had honey notes in it, despite me boiling the honey as per the recipe (and using cheap SAMs club clover honey)... Tasting in about 2 weeks.

+1 for honey being sterile Honey is shelf stable, unpasteuruzed. Honey found in Egyptian tombs from 3000 years ago was edible and safe.

3481 + 5 = 3486 brewed last night, completely vanilla no changes or tinkering other than fermenting with US-05. hit my numbers square on the head.

stopped by my LHBS .. saw a sign for the whitehouse beer kits. Oddly enough- the kit was the EXACT kit that I built 2 weeks ago, and told them what I was doing. There were substitutions because of their limited stock of yeasts, etc.

Maybe those bottles need time to mellow. Set them aside and brew some more perhaps, ferment in a swamp cooler (i use an old tshirt and fill a rubbermaid tub up halfway, it brings my 74F ambient down to 68F consistant temp, with no fan or ice), and try again. Also try using yeast starters to...

i have a decent clone of their Pale Ale (not boston pale ale, just pale ale) that is pretty awesome. I like the BL but their pale ale is REALLY good.

my question is relatively unrelated, but what the heck is wrong with your tap water? i have an inline charcoal filter to scrub any rogue chlorine, but otherwise most tap water makes awesome beer. did you burn the extracts on the bottom of the keg? Or squeeze the steeping bag and that released...