Recent content by Phil Shields

Their IPA was my go to beer for years, until I moved away from the area. Very surprising!

Thank you for your help! About how much sugar should I add when I dry hop? And I assume corn sugar would be best? I have never had krausen left at dry hop time before.

Been in fermenter for 2 weeks. I used a liquid yeast for the 1st time . Don't have a stir plate yet so swirled it a lot for 2.5 days. Lots of activity in air lock within 24 hours, activities took about 9 days to slow down. I was going to transfer to secondary to dry hop and open up primary for...

I use a ice bath for my brew kettle and the copper head chiller takes maybe 30 min to get to pitching temp. for a 5 gallon batch.

I did top it off. Pretty sure it was thou Ty. I will try that next time!

I will try spatula next time. Lme was in cans that I warmed in hot water.

The target was 1.051. 6.6 lbs of lme. And 1 lb of kara red.

I am brewing an American Pale Ale from an extract kit. The kit is supposed to make 5 gallons. I hit my target gravity at about 4 gallons though. Any thoughts on why?

I am also very new to brewing. I started with a very basic kit. I have added a wart chiller and secondary fermenter, also a few testing and stirring tools. Next will be an outdoor propane burner and large kettle.