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My wife bought a sixer of this for me, knowing I'm an IPA guy. After about 2 sips off the first bottle, I dumped it. Tried another one when I hadn't been having my palate wrecked by some other high IBU brews. Poured that out too. Just plain nasty.

So... Has anyone brewed this up yet?

Planning on doing just that this weekend. Have a yeast cake that's been in the sealed fermenter under a couple inches of beer for almost 2 weeks now. I also planning on doing a pretty big beer (1.096), so the pitch rate should be good. Maybe a little overkill, but not underpitched. Blowoff tube...

When I brew, 90% of the time it's in the evenings, with the bulk of it after i put the kids to bed. I try to weigh and mill grains the day before, as well as weigh out hops, then number the zip locks i put the hops into according to their hop addition. I can do all that in the living room with...

I totally skip that aisle altogether for that reason.... The guys at Midwest must think I'm insane...

I brewed this up this past weekend, used S-04. I'll definitely report back on it. Had some interesting things pop up while trying to brew. Basically, Mashed in at 150, but couldn't do much until about 4 hours later. So, it sat for 4 hours, and ended at about 142 when I went to sparge. First time...

No Magnum? I like to bitter with Magnum or Columbus, then late addition some Centennial, Citra, Amarillo, something like that. dry hop with same.

Package from farmhouse... Pounds of citra and centennials. I'm well stocked now... 8 lbs of hops in the freezer...

Well, I've got enough to make 2 batches, so maybe I'll use the S04 this time, then the WLP002 next time to compare... now I just need to find some time somewhere.

True, but my problem is with doing a starter before hand, since it seems every time brew day comes around, someone's sick or something else pops up. I guess technically I could put the starter in the fridge until I can brew, but then I have no idea when the next day I can brew is. :( Hence the...

I've got all the ingredients for this on hand, been waiting to brew it for the last month, but something always comes up when I want to brew (kids sick, wife sick, me sick, negative degree weather, that sort of crap). #RunningFarmer... you used S04 and it came out tasty. I'm debating using...

Roofies?

Lagunitas Sucks... My first one this year. Omg is it good!

I took a taster of mine tonight... Aroma was a little melon, and a little fruity. Taste was mild, but not bad. Would be good in a cream ale vs IPA, unless you throw in some galaxy or citra too. The Columbus, in retrospect, wasn't a great idea, but not a terrible beer by any means. I'll use it...

I just kegged a belma IPA tonight. I used 2-row and c-15 for a base, 1.5 oz Columbus fwh, and 4 additions of 1.5 oz of belma at 20, 15, 10, and 5. Dry hopped with about 3 oz belma for 6 days. It smelled melony, almost like Granny Smith apples too, for whatever reason. Put it on 30psi gas until...

Already did that a couple times today ;-)

Think of it as breaking in your equipment... We've all been there. It's one of the benefits of brewing in the garage-- easier to clean up than the stove top, around the stove, etc.

I've done this the past couple times I've brewed, but only when I'm putting water into the mash tun. Still sucks, but not as much as if it were wort :-)

Cool. I'll try the blend of rye malt and C60. I've got C60 on hand. The recipe calls for 1.66 lb rye malt and .5 lb cararye, so I'm thinking 1.66 lb rye malt and a blend of .25 lb rye malt and .25 C60. Sound right?

Looking at brewing skeezer's Wooky Jack clone. My LHBS doesn't have cararye, though... Is there any substitute for this that people have used and found o be acceptable?