I just finished up brewing an APA and for once everything clicked. Always there's something that goes wrong - from forgetting to add the whirlfloc to the hose falling out of the fermenter and getting wort all over the basement floor.
Been brewing for 5 years, on a Kal clone for the last 2...
Brewed this exactly again for the first time in ages. Finished at 1.009 in 4 days. Sample is still quite cloudy but it has that great centennial blonde taste :) Looking forward to crashing and kegging early next week.
I'll be finishing up my Kal clone brewery and making my first brew with it - the same one that got me into homebrewing : BierMuncher's Centennial Blonde!
I've finally been able to track down some information on the water coming to my house. It has some helpful information such as calcium, chloride, sulphate and sodium but I seem to be missing some information for the water calculators - magnesium and bicarbonate etc.
I was hoping since I'm...
I'll add 0.25/0.75 chinook / centennial for the dry hop. Getting excited about this brew. Should be tasty. I guess it's the only way I'll ever understand building a hop profile is to try it and adjust on future batches.
Thanks for the excellent input. Here is the new recipe. Hoping to make this Boxing Day.
1.057 og / 56.3 ibu / 7.5 srm / 6% abv
8.5# Marris otter
1.5# dark Munich 9 srm
0.5# caramunich
.5# wheat malt for head retention
1.5 oz centennial @ 60
0.5 / 0.5 oz centennial and cascade @ 15
1 oz...
I may have used the word session a bit too liberally. I don't mind sitting and having 3-4 pints of 5.5-6% IPA around the table with friends (they don't mind either hah)
I'm in Canada and what I've really enjoyed lately are muskoka brewery mad Tom IPA and mill street tankhouse. Both deep amber...
I've been brewing all grain for about a year or more and always used recipes I've found on here. Lately I'm wanting to come up with my own designs but would really appreciate some input to see if I'm on the right track.
I'm wanting to make a good moderately hoppy IPA that can be enjoyed all...