Hi all, I've been a creeper on these forums for a while. I learned a lot and figured it was time to say hi. I've done 4 brews so far:
1. Ingredient kit IPA - Wasn't too good at first but surprisingly to me after about 2 months of aging its gotten decent
2. Based off of a Irish Red recipe from my LHBS but I changed and upped the hops to make a sort of red IPA (I'm actually drinking right now). Much better than my first brew and I split up the batch to see the effect of dry hopping so I had some not dry hopped at all, some with 0.3 oz/gal and some with 0.8 oz/gal and definitely think the more hops the better!
3. Pliny the Elder clone. I'm from the SF bay area so I've had it and enjoyed it but cant get it down here so I thought I'd try to brew it myself. I did an extract recipe based off of the double IPA PDF from Vinnie (I'll post my recipe if anyone is interested). The hop profile is pretty close and its the best beer I've bottled so far. I haven't been able to sample it side by side next to real thing yet but in a few weeks I should be able to and Ill post the results.
4. Deception cream stout recipe from this forum posted by NCBeernut. Just tasted a sample after 2 weeks in fermentation and its really good! I put in a bit more extract than he called for since I didn't want it just sitting around the house. I look forward to bottling and drinking this!
My next few batches I plan on doing some 1 gal SMaSH recipes and I'm setup to do BIAB so that I can learn the tastes of different malts and hops.
This post turned out longer than I planned for...but oh well!
1. Ingredient kit IPA - Wasn't too good at first but surprisingly to me after about 2 months of aging its gotten decent
2. Based off of a Irish Red recipe from my LHBS but I changed and upped the hops to make a sort of red IPA (I'm actually drinking right now). Much better than my first brew and I split up the batch to see the effect of dry hopping so I had some not dry hopped at all, some with 0.3 oz/gal and some with 0.8 oz/gal and definitely think the more hops the better!
3. Pliny the Elder clone. I'm from the SF bay area so I've had it and enjoyed it but cant get it down here so I thought I'd try to brew it myself. I did an extract recipe based off of the double IPA PDF from Vinnie (I'll post my recipe if anyone is interested). The hop profile is pretty close and its the best beer I've bottled so far. I haven't been able to sample it side by side next to real thing yet but in a few weeks I should be able to and Ill post the results.
4. Deception cream stout recipe from this forum posted by NCBeernut. Just tasted a sample after 2 weeks in fermentation and its really good! I put in a bit more extract than he called for since I didn't want it just sitting around the house. I look forward to bottling and drinking this!
My next few batches I plan on doing some 1 gal SMaSH recipes and I'm setup to do BIAB so that I can learn the tastes of different malts and hops.
This post turned out longer than I planned for...but oh well!
