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Well I wish I could say that the beer lived up to the name, but alas, nothing ever does.
The IPA is all hops and no malt flavor. It’s kind of sad, even my wife commented on how light it was.
The good news is that I know what went wrong. Remember, this predates my understanding of [...]
I moved my Joe Cool IPA from the fermenter into the keg. It’s a little earlier than I wanted too, but I was drinking Molsons Canadian for the last week and I JUST COULDN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!
Anyway, this beer was surprisingly light in color and pretty smooth to drink. So far (and yes [...]
you can now access my brew blog from either cnybrewblog.blogspot.com or just www.cnybrew.com. Hope all is well and it is killing me waiting on my brews!
Cheers to not having to screw around on annoying tech crap anymore.
For anyone that is using blogger and has seen that you can create a personalized URL for your .blogspot site, I have to put out a little warning. Now I have been using GoDaddy for my domain registration for a while now and have not been pleased. However, the war that I have [...]
I am always looking for a way to get things done that makes sense and saves money. I have to say that as of late I have been a little obsessed with this whole concept of efficiency and it led me to create a little adjustment sheet so that I could make changes to my [...]
So I am now 3 batches into my new all brew system and I figured I would try to come up with my efficiency. I found this explanation of efficiency on the HBD Efficiency web page. These are listed in opposite the order that they were brewed, so the Yeti was the first [...]
This is an IPA that I made some changes too for my recipe. I am waiting on my Schlitz to lager for a month so I decided I would brew up an IPA for the Super Bowl. This should be a fine one:
5 Gallons
8lb. Durst Pilsner (3628 g)2lb. Briess 2-row (907 g)1lb. Durst [...]
I saw this recipe in BYO.com and since I had never tried a lager, I decided this was a good place to start. This is my version of the recipe The Schizlitz from BYO:
90 min at 150F (65C)4.0 lbs (1,800g) 2 row pale malt2lbs 10oz (1,200 g) 6 row pale malt2lbs (907g) flaked maze
.55oz [...]
As an FYI for anyone interested; I am going to be brewing this weekend. I have an American Pilsner recipe I found in BYO called the Shizlitz and I made a couple of changes to it for a slight variation on the 70’s style American Pilsner.
I am going to get some photos and [...]
