White House Honey Ale

[BansheeRider]

I just brewed the porter last night. I used columbus hops for bittering and willamette for aroma rather than the hops used in the recipe. My OG was 1.060 and the yeast is going to town now. It took about 12 hours for fermentation to begin. I hope this turns out good.

 

[carguy13]

did you buy the kit, or did you put it together at the brew shop?

 

[bolus14]

Cracked open my first bottle tonight, expecting the carbonation to be low and still have some of the strong alcohol in the smell.

To my surprise this was carbed to the point that I would say its ready, I used 5.5oz of priming sugar. I read somewhere else that they thought the alcohol came through too much and to carb a little more to cut through it, I think it worked. The alcohol has calmed down. The taste, well you can tell it still needs to blend a little bit. Not bad by any means, I could easily sit and drink 2 or 3 and be happy.

Depending on the final turn out this may be a regular for me, at this point in would say it will be in my fall and early spring rotation

 

[carguy13]

nice dude.

 

[BansheeRider]

did you buy the kit, or did you put it together at the brew shop?

I pieced it together at my LHBS because the kit comes with priming sugar that I don't need since I keg. Also I wanted to use the left over hops I had in the freezer.

 

[wyoast]

Mine looks like this... First brew ever... Got some knowledge and learned where I messed up... Ready for 5 gallon brew!!!

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Messed up? looks good to me!

 

[biggdaddymatt]

That is how mine looked too. I brewed it 1/3 and bottled 2 weeks later and opened 1 every other week since. I have 1 left and it will sit a bit. Its good but needs more time to mellow

 

[wyoast]

I brewed a 1 gallon kit of this I picked up at my hbs..just an experiment I guess, well I jacked up my numbers and ended up doubling the hop additions on accident so I am going to end up with white house honey IPA..lol. I'll let y'all know how it tastes.

I bottled this today.. finished out really quick at 1.012 the bit I tasted going into bottles is fantastic! I'm not an IPA fan but this is somewhere in between, I get the hop flavor but not overpowering by any means.. I'm thinking this will be a very quaffable session brew...:rockin:

 

[carguy13]

I totally changed up my recipe, but it still went well.

 

[bolus14]

I'm not an IPA fan, except for a couple that I've found to be ok. With that said doubling the hops in this might not be a bad thing. I had mine in the primary for 3 weeks and as of this past Sunday it was bottled for 2 weeks. It still needs some time to mellow and for the flavors to mesh. One sip you get some booziness, the next you get some of the honey, the next you get some maltiness.

I was hoping this would be another brew and drink, in 5 - 6 weeks, since my Irish Red is almost gone, but I think for this one to be a good smooth beer it's going to need another few weeks or longer. I've still got 46 bottles so I'll keep sampling every week or so until I'm happy with it.

 

[wyoast]

Cracked one open today, I'm thinking its going to take a bit of aging before this beer really hits its stride. It's pretty tasty but has a bit of a tequilla taste to it this young. I'm guessing the heavy hop additions plus the honey

 

[BansheeRider]

Cracked one open today, I'm thinking its going to take a bit of aging before this beer really hits its stride. It's pretty tasty but has a bit of a tequilla taste to it this young. I'm guessing the heavy hop additions plus the honey

I brewed the porter and I'm thinking the same thing. It's been in primary for two weeks and I can't decide whether to keg or age in secondary for a while longer.