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Hot diggity damn. I got sent out of state for work and let this beer lager for 3 months, I just cracked an experimental bottle (2 weeks carbonating, 1 day in fridge) and it's totally delicious. Really looking forward to trying it with another week of conditioning!

Nottingham yeast looks weird like that.

Well, my LHBS that just opened is still trying to get on its feet. No Munich or melanoidin malt available and only 7oz of Citra on hand, though it is 14% AA. I'm getting sick of trying to make recipes out of grains they don't have on hand so I might have to put this one off.

I just upgraded from a 5g to a 10g mash tun. I finally got sick of being limited on how much grain I could mash and the $75 cost of a bigger cooler with all the hardware is nothing. I'm going to break it in with this beer. I've never had Zombie Dust so I won't have anything to compare my beer...

Founder's Black IPA

Zombie Dust clone for me this weekend, my pipeline has taken a major hit. I gave away 60 bottles at a homebrew get together this weekend and I only have an imperial stout and a Kolsch in primary right now. Kolsch won't be ready to drink for 7 weeks or so and the stout won't be ready for...

Well.... it'll be.... something...

For my second batch of this beer I had to make a couple of compromises. No vienna malt available so I just dropped it from the recipe (my new LHBS has a much finer crush so I ended up at the same OG as my first batch) and I used Amarillo flavor hops in place of Centennial. Still came out to be...

I also USED to have that glass. I broke it. I've had a bad streak of glass breakages this year :(

Congrats. I actually think it looks great cloudy. it actually looks like the skin of an apricot. Ain't nothing better than realizing the beer you make at home can be so good!

You can't patent or copyright a microorganism. Anyone could culture up some Conan yeast from dregs and sell it or give it away. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I accidentally added irish moss to my last wheat beer. Force of habit, had 15 minutes left in the boil and tossed it in like I do to all my beers. It's still fairly cloudy. I don't do anything to clear my wheat on purpose.

Caviar

When my sister found out I had gotten into wet shaving she got me 4 Edwin Jagger soap pucks for Christmas, 2x aloe, 1x sandalwood and 1x 'sea buckthorn' and it makes me laugh because I will probably be using those same pucks when I am 60 years old. Shaving soap lasts forever.

You'll love it fosaisu. You can make wet shaving as simple or as complex as you want. I like to take my time and make an occasion out of shaving maybe once a month, and do a full 3-pass shave with all the trimmings. Most days of the workweek I do a very simple low-prep one-pass shave that...

Agreed and thanks for the feedback. It was sitting solid at 64*F for 6 days before the temperature dipped (never had that happen before, my chest freezer and temp controller are really old but have always worked well). I have had success with all my beers leaving them in low-mid 60s for a week...

+3 gal Imperial Stout, +5 gal Kolsch 22606.5

Update. My OG was 1.095 plus or minus a couple of points - my hydrometer is a bit off - and the gravity is currently 1.027(ish). Unfortunately while I was away from home for 24 hours my fermentation chamber cooled the wort down to 59* ish a few days into the ferment. Fearing that I'd put the...

I only have 5 bottles of this beer left from a 5-gallon batch, I drank through it pretty quickly. I am saving them for a homebrew get-together this weekend so I will do my best to come back with some coherent notes after a day of drinking. I started drinking this beer when it was barely carbed...