6thGoal
Stephen
While I should have paid closer attention and bought the extract kit from Bell's I failed and went with the local More Beer shop, I Heart IPA. It wasn't until I was brewing that I realized Bell's sold their own kit and took notice the ingredients were quite different.
Brew day went fine, but I toyed with the idea off adding more hops as it was 1 oz Centennial at 60 minutes, 30 minutes, 5 minutes and 1 minute with 1 oz for dry hopping.
The beer was fermented for 2 weeks, as the airlock and temperature indicated fermentation was over. The beer was bottled on December 12 and I cracked open a bottle last night to give it a taste about 4 days short of 2 weeks being bottle conditioned.
I was somewhat displeased with the BIG caramel sweetness this beer carried. The aroma from the bottle in the in the glass was pleasing, a citrus with grapefruit and a hint of pine with a mild sweetness. However that first sip was anything but fruity, not that Two Hearted has a big fruit component to it. What was very noticeable was the sweetness of the beer, sort of an overpowering caramel near the end of the swallow. It did have a small pine bite.
So I look back on the notes from brewing day and again compare ingredients from the kit from Bell's. Where could I have gone wrong? This is probably the last extract kit I do, as I am piecing together a mash tun to build next month. Is there something else I could or should have done?
It's got a great color and nice head with a good aroma.
Brew day went fine, but I toyed with the idea off adding more hops as it was 1 oz Centennial at 60 minutes, 30 minutes, 5 minutes and 1 minute with 1 oz for dry hopping.
The beer was fermented for 2 weeks, as the airlock and temperature indicated fermentation was over. The beer was bottled on December 12 and I cracked open a bottle last night to give it a taste about 4 days short of 2 weeks being bottle conditioned.
I was somewhat displeased with the BIG caramel sweetness this beer carried. The aroma from the bottle in the in the glass was pleasing, a citrus with grapefruit and a hint of pine with a mild sweetness. However that first sip was anything but fruity, not that Two Hearted has a big fruit component to it. What was very noticeable was the sweetness of the beer, sort of an overpowering caramel near the end of the swallow. It did have a small pine bite.
So I look back on the notes from brewing day and again compare ingredients from the kit from Bell's. Where could I have gone wrong? This is probably the last extract kit I do, as I am piecing together a mash tun to build next month. Is there something else I could or should have done?
It's got a great color and nice head with a good aroma.