Recent content by jakeasaur

Just keged 10 gal of this. Taste great out of the bucket. Does 1.018 sound like a decent FG for this? OG was 1.060

I brewed this in 12 days last year .. turned out great ... 6 days at 64 then ramp it up to 70-72 for 4 days then cold crash for 2 days ... make the tea with about a pint of the finished beer and keg on day 12

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My fresh hop pale ale. Week or so in the keg. Tasting good. I have not tried to dry them .. you can buy them dry in the USA at a reasonable price... I love making a fresh wet hop ale every year

About to tap my homegrown pale ale. Cascade and Chinook from my yard and Cascade, Chinook and Willamette from the neighbors yard. We do 15 gallon batches and split it 3 ways. I use them wet. 2 years ago the beer was awesome. 1 oz magnum @ 60 min. 7lbs wet continuously added in the last 10 min...

Thanks... I get 90% of my seeds from Baker Creek

I have tried Cherokee purple 2016 and 2017. They didn't grow to well for me. The ones iv found that I like and they grow well here in northern Kentucky are Solar Flare and Pink tye dye from wild boar. German Red, Barns Mountain Yellow, Brandy wine ( I grow a few different types of them) and...

What are your thoughts on the Atomic grape tomatoes? I love the Pink tye dye and Solar Flair tomatoes from wild boar farms. I tried the atomic grape tomatoes this year and I'm not impressed. Only got one out of 5 plants to even grow. They are hard to tell when ripe. Flavor is ok nothing special...

As far as hop and LME schedule I would use half LME at the start and half at flame out... I would also add all of your hops at flame out

If you want a light golden IPA I'd cut the crystal to 8 oz maybe even down to 4 oz

I have always done white and yes just mash with the rest of your grains

I made this in early June using Centennial and cascade .... turned out quite nice

I'm leaning towards squirls... setting up one of my brother in-laws hunting cameras tonight

Gone for the weekend and came home to this. Anyone have any thoughts on the culprit? Chimpmunk?

This week's harvest