Recent content by hoboscratch

I've brewed this beer probably 5 times since you've posted it. It's my house wheat, no questions asked. Thanks again for sharing the recipe.

Just legged my first attempt at this. All I can say is wow. Samples have tasted great the entire way. I never knew Irish reds could be so delicious.

My original plan was to enter it into the APA category for those reasons. Figured stronger was better than weak, and that it might stand out more being on the "big" side. In my opinion its not much of an ipa, because of the session quality, but is a great APA. Ah, how modern hop bomb DIPAs have...

Yeah, its very hop foward with a lot of late addition galaxy and simcoe. I wanted a very hoppy session beer, and its turned into a pretty tasty beverage. There's not much malt profile at the moment, its all being covered by the hops. I've done this one before and when the hops start to drop out...

I have a beer that I want to enter in a comp and not sure what category it should go in. Any advice would be cool. 3 of the 4 categories in Beersmith work for both APA and IPA. Here's the specs, let me know what you think. OG: 1.052 IBU: 56 SRM: 6.8 ABV: 5.5 So it kind of overlaps into...

I just tasted a 2 week sample. I used .9oz Chinook 11.8% AA, @ 85, 45, 15, 0 and its definitely not bitter enough. I am not sure where I got those numbers from. I read probably a hundred posts and for some reason those numbers stuck in my head as being close. I would disagree. At a 1.074 OG...

I brewed this last April and it is finally in the bottle and carbed. One thing I did which I would change, is I soaked my oak spirals in port wine like the recipe calls for, but I put in half of the port that I had the oak soaking in, which amounted to probably 1/3 or more of a bottle. The port...

I just stocked up on some simcoe from northern brewer. 1oz bags but still, they had some. Bought enough to keep me in good shape until harvest...I hope. I am anxious to hear how this recipe turns out, please keep us posted.

I agree that this just got better as time went on. This is my new house Am Wheat recipe. Thanks again!

I just dry hopped 2 oz of Galaxy in my Galaxy APA. I used about .5oz of Warrior for my 60 min, then added lots of Galaxy late. A sample I took last night was outstanding. Same with me on the grain bill and yeast, kept it nice and clean. Just from what I've experienced so far, Galaxy is going to...

I am about a week removed from brewing this recipe. I'm very anxious to see how it will taste. It already smells awesome, and my pre-fermentation sample gave me a very positive outlook. Thanks for the recipe.

I'm very interested in how this will turn out, so please post results. I live in Iowa, but go to Chicago a couple times a year and always make a stop in Goose Island. A bit off topic, but their belgian IPA, Mynx, inspired me to make my own bipa which turned out great. Back to topic, I have been...

huh, so maybe my fat fingering was right after all...

I've never done a belgian before but if I recall low 70's are ideal, correct? I'll do some research on it but maintaining that temperature should not be a problem.

Sorry for the confusion. The recipe was just what I had done last time. So that's not necessarily what I was going to be doing again. I took out the 001 yeast, because that was just adding to the confusion. But it seems like the consensus is to completely change the grain bill instead of just...