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Live in Lexington, work in darlington.

One for the Lexington guys https://www.facebook.com/thestatenews/posts/10155262494250575

SHAIV has had pretty good luck with his hops so far considering it's a 2nd year crop. Mine not so much but I also don't have a good place for mine to grow. I need to build something for them to grow up. Problem is I live in Lexington but work in darlington mon-Friday and my wife is due with our...

Dang, almost a year since Ive posted on here. Anyways. Took a shot at staining the cabinet today. The color it came out to be is not what I had in mind, not what the sample color looked like. But I'm gonna let it dry a couple days and see what it looks like. And if I want it lighter, I'll...

Yea I agree. Before I was a home brewer I HATED IPAs, but once I started brewing and realized the difference in hops, buttering vs flavor, IBUs, Malts, and all the other flavor profiles. Then I was able to enjoy them and now IPAs are my favorite. Because I know what I like

More in Lexington than I though. Good stuff though. Means we would help sample each other's brews hahaha

If your patient enough you can get the right setup. I have a setup that I'm happy with. And so far I have less than $40 into it.... Scored a free mini fridge, just had to do some modifications that went perfectly. Traded a box of MREs (that I got for free) for 2 used kegs Got my regulator...

Wow this thread is doin good. I've missed a lot. Anyways. I'm Healey, SHAIVs buddy, we always brew together. I also live in Lexington. I'm just sitting here sippin in a chocolate milk stout that I have on tap here that we brewed. Morrey, to answer your post a few pages back about the...

Found it. Yea I got my first brew kit for Christmas 2014, been brewing since. I'm in Lexington/west Columbia

I found a wall mounted light at Goodwill for about $5, and I've hated the look Of the light that was in the closet so I figured why not. The goodwill light has never been used, still wrapped in the plastic so that's nice. It had a pull chain on it but I didn't need it and didn't like how it...

It's been a while Since I've posted on here. Mainly Cus I've been busy with life. I did end up making a ferment chamber out of a heat freezer I have in the garage. So the closet will be used a lot less for fermenting. I currently have an IPA in there now but only because it's in a plastic big...

It's been a month or so since I emptied the keg with this brew. Tonight I poured a ballast point grapefruit sculpin and took a sip, I couldn't tell a difference in the ballast point and the homebrew. Soooooo I'd say success

Well that didn't last long... Now I have an empty keg and nothing to put in it... Better get brewing

So the brew is a hit. Between a few friends and myself. The keg only has about 1/4 left in it.. And my brew turned out about 8%. So we had a good time. I will no doubt brew this again. But i think next time I will cut back a little of the grapefruit. Either only use the fresh, or only use the...

Zest from 2 fresh grapefruits, gave me 1oz of zest in weight. And I used 1 oz of the dry peel, I started off with 4oz of vodka to sanitize but it didn't quite cover the zest in the container I had it in so I added enough to cover it all. At first i thought it was too much grapefruit. But it...

Keg conditioned for a week. The difference one week makes is crazy. Last week, the grapefruit was overpowering and the aftertaste wasn't the best. Today, it is so crisp and refreshing. The in your face grapefruit is gone. Now it accents the hops nicely, but isn't overtaking the flavor. And I...

First pour after carbonating it, just to see where it was at. Still needs to sit and let everything settle so I can get the last of the crud out

I just kegged my batch. I tasted a sample when I took my gravity reading. It doesn't have as much hop flavor as I expected, and I just dry hopped for a week. I don't know if this will show up later or not. The grapefruit flavor is definitely there. Maybe a little more than I wanted. I used an oz...

Awesome thanks

Cloudy beer doesn't bother me. I just don't want a ton of sediment in any that I decide to bottle. This is an IPA and I want the flavor. So I don't care about it being cloudy. It has been dry hopped with 2 oz of hop pellets. I put it in the fridge to cold crash at about 12:15 this afternoon. I...