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Wheat IPA just went into the keg and it is pretty tasty... Nice cascade nose, crisp bitterness over the sweet wheat backbone. Nice! DJ

There is nothing wrong with having a "gateway" beer. I used to think Fat Tire was awesome when I was just getting into beers beyond Bud Light. I started getting into microbrews as a result. After a year of sampling, they finally released it in my state and I was amazed at how bad it was...

Good advice so far. In addition- Your local homebrew shop should have some basic brewing classes. Check one of those out. Usually they will take a brewday from start to finish and they will probably have some samples to try as well. :thumbs: Also, if you have a homebrewing club in your...

Hey thanks! I've found that simplicity is the key to great tasting beer. It seems like a lot of people (especially on homebrewing message boards) want to put 10 different specialty malts in a recipe to "add complexity" but I like to keep the malt bill simple and get complexity from the hop...

Hoppy Noodle Wheat PA 4.5 lbs 2 row 4.5 lbs White Wheat Malt 1 lb Crystal 10L Mash at 150 for 60 min. Batch sparge 5 gallons. Hop Schedule: FWH 1 oz Williamette 45 min - .5 oz Summit 10 min - 1 oz Cascade 2 oz Cascade Dry Hop (So you can smell it from 2 counties over) I used S-05 for the...

Well, I just moved my experimental Wheat IPA to the secondary after 6 weeks in primary and put in 2 oz of cascades for dry hopping. The Hydro sample tasted awesome! It tastes a little like Gumballhead, but with Cascade hops instead of Amarillo. If it is this good flat and warm, I can only...

Had a Schafly Coffee Stout and working on a Three Floyd's Gumballhead... going down smooth after a tough week.

Great job J! The only thing that matters is taste and if it's good then drink it up! Cheers- DJ

This song is another appropriate one for this thread. DJ

You gotta love it when the hydrometer samples taste great! A couple of weeks to carb up in the bottle and those stouts will be awesome! Pair those babies up with a nice strong cigar for sure. I think I'm gonna have to do a stout next. Brewed an American Wheat IPA this weekend and hit all my...

Austin Homebrew sells really good minimash kits. I used them for a couple of mini mash kits as a transition to all grain. Maybe try one of those before trying to "create" a mini mash recipe. Generally, the first time you use a new brewing method, you want to remove variables. That way if it...

The best part about homebrewing is experimenting, so go for it and see what you get. If you like it, then it is good beer. If not, change something and brew it again. I was suggesting to try moving that 2 min to a 15 or 20 min. You will get a smoother, more refined bitterness without adding...

I like that recipe Bastage- your IBUs and SRM is right in the range for an American Amber. I would suggest adding a 20 min hop addition to balance the bitterness/aroma. With 1 60 min and a 2 min, you are going to get a lot of bitterness but it will be unbalanced. While you are looking for a...

That is amazing... I am a private pilot and to execute that type of a water landing in a large jet full of people requires so much precision it is not even funny. If you don't have it perfectly level, that plane ends up cartwheeling down the river and the outcome is much different. I love the...

That blueberry with bananas sounds pretty darn good! I have an ESB in the keg that is about ready to drink and I am brewing an experimental American wheat IPA this weekend with summit and cascades for the hops. It is a combo of my two favorite styles so we'll see how it turns out! DJ