Brewing a Green Flash IPA clone with my brother. It’s part of his Christmas present.
10:15 – Mashed In. 152F, 5.3pH.
11:52 – On the way to boiling …
12:20 – Boiling, added the 90 minute hop addition.
That’s a lot of hops….
16:30 – Done cleaning, wort is in the fermenter coming down to pitching temp. Hit the [...]
Finally brewing again after several busy months! I’m really excited to get this beer brewed in the new fermenter system, since it picked up my house off-flavor the last few times I’ve brewed it. This time I’m also using the White Labs Kolsch yeast, WLP029, to see how it works in the beer.
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I just finished kegging the RyePA I brewed in November and I’ve got some mixed emotions. Everything was looking great, the fermenter system worked excellent this time around and racking to the kegs with co2 was really simple. I got just the right volume to fill two kegs, and the sample I took [...]
I just finished kegging the cream ale. It tastes fantastic, the hops may be a little too upfront for the style, but the citrus-y, earthy notes compliment the beer really well in my opinion. I couldn’t stop drinking the sample I pulled. It also attenuated really well, finishing at 1.006 (1.5 P). [...]
Last Saturday I added 4lbs of Turbinado sugar to the fermenting barleywine. That really woke the yeast up and got them going again for a couple of days. I just got back from The Bruery’s Black Tuesday party and checked the gravity on the barleywine. It’s currently sitting between 1.018 and 1.020. [...]
I took the day off to brew today. I’m making a big American style barleywine that I’m hoping to drink at Christmas. I know this isn’t enough time to properly age a barleywine, but as long as the alcohol isn’t too overpowering I think it will be a nice beer after only a few months. [...]
I just decided to pull a quick gravity sample from the hoppy amber and it’s tasting very nice. The finishing gravity was a little higher than I expected: 1.016, leaving about 6.7% ABV. No sign so far of the nasty off flavor that’s been plaguing me for about a year…I’ll have to write more about [...]
After two days of absolutely no signs of fermentation, I decided it was time to pitch some new yeast into the rye beer. It seems like all 4 packets of K-97 that I had were dead on arrival, so I ended up going with US-05. My main concern with doing this is that US-05 tends [...]
I didn’t get to brew on the holiday in February like I had hoped. I did keg the MBL though. My study group decided to get together on the holiday to go over some case studies we were working on. The last few weeks I’ve been neck deep in case studies and projects and I’ve [...]
My first keg of belgian oatmeal stout kicked last week and I decided to swap in a fresh keg of the same brew right before I left for class last Saturday morning. I wanted to get it cold so I could bring a growler of it to a super bowl party on Sunday. As [...]
