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I'm working with a pretty small sample size, but the beers that I have made thus far in my brewing career have been more bitter than I have expected with very little of the great hop flavors and aroma. Really the only time that I have noticed the flavor and aroma have been by using a flameout...

Great, thanks for the info. Cheers Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

This is all really great stuff. Progmac, what are some of the other data points that you keep track of? Are you looking at mostly temp readings, pH recordings and things of that nature, or are you also concerned with observations like grain crush and how smoothly the day went? Just looking...

Well, you were right to say that it's not coming from the bottom. I took another look and it appears that I have a slow leak from the flo-valve. The way it was situated, everything was pooling up around the base. I took care of that so I'm off and running again. also, at almost the 24 hour...

Oh God, I need help. I brewed up a brown ale yesterday and transferred it to my 5 gallon better bottle carboy. When I went to check to see if fermentation had started about 12 hours later, I saw no activity. What I did see was a ring of wort surrounding the bottom of the bottle. I was...

Whoops. My bad, definitely let us know how it turns out.

Zoe is an amazing beer. They are doing some pretty excellent stuff up there. Probably my favorite beers in the Northeast. So, it's 2 years after you last post...how did this turn out?

great, thanks!

I actually didn't know that the dry yeast packets came with the optimum nutrients. That being said, should I avoid yeast starters with them all together? What if I have a dry yeast and want to ferment a high gravity brew...should I just add a second packet or just go for a liquid yeast and...

It's definitely not Citra, although I thought the same thing. Citra wasn't introduced until 2007, Heady Topper has been around for quite some time longer. I'm lucky enough to have a co-worker who makes weekly trips up to Vermont. He brings me back a couple 4 packs every so often.

I couldn't agree more. I did have it in the bottle, it's just too much.

What about making a smaller batch (2.5 gal) of a higher gravity beer? I know that for anything over 1.063+/- of a 5 gal batch, you should make a starter. My thinking was that the cell count of a dry yeast packet in a half batch of a high gravity would suffice....is that thinking correct? Btw...