DIY IPA - peteinsuffolk's first home brew attempt

Man, I miss beer...and, from what I hear, beer misses me too.

How long until you have a finished product?

Now the hard part: Waiting.

probably about 6 weeks.. That's a long time to wait to see if I screwed it up, but should be fun either way.

I have a few weeks to start working on my kegerator project. Hopefully I can have it done in the next few weeks so I don't have to bottle it... that sounds like a pain in the @ass.

Keep us posted!!

Yeah IPAs are supposed to have a long shelf life, so you really need to let it condition for a long time. I am working on getting my set up together. I want to start off with a small batch of mead.

boke said:

Yeah IPAs are supposed to have a long shelf life, so you really need to let it condition for a long time. I am working on getting my set up together. I want to start off with a small batch of mead.

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I've got a friend who has been making mead for a while....some real kick ass stuff! & pretty easy too!

He sent me a link for an easy do-it-yourself I'll try to find it.

(Sorry didn't mean to HJ)

Yeah mead is basically water honey and yeast. When we going to have a LIF homebrew party?

just had my first boil-over.. thankfully it wasn't too bad.  clean up is almost done.  Thankfully I could switch burners and keep it going w/o baking the other crap on to the range

From what I have been told, you are not really brewing until you've had a boilover, heheheh. ;-)

Seriously, it sounds like we need to get an LIF Homebrew Club going...

free2scour said:

From what I have been told, you are not really brewing until you've had a boilover, heheheh. ;-)

Seriously, it sounds like we need to get an LIF Homebrew Club going...

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it's funny I have probably brewed well over 100 different batches and never once had a boil over! An LIF team homebrew would be great....maybe we can buddy up with Zen's wing contest and make sure the guns are locked away!

boke said:

Yeah mead is basically water honey and yeast. When we going to have a LIF homebrew party?

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You left out the bittering agent, which I always thought was cool: Spruce! Needles or essence in place of the beer counterpart hops!

PaulyFu223 said:

You left out the bittering agent, which I always thought was cool: Spruce! Needles or essence in place of the beer counterpart hops!

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hmm a lot of recipies I have seen seem to leave that out

never had mead.. any good?

I'd be down for a LIF homebrew bottle trade one night. my preference is hoppy beers but I'm always open to new flavors.

PaulyFu223 said:

You left out the bittering agent, which I always thought was cool: Spruce! Needles or essence in place of the beer counterpart hops!

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Efreem and I tried that once. We let the bottles sit just in case it needed aging, but all went down the kitchen sink. Hops are fantastic though, I grow Cascades like weeds, and I'm trying to get the Williamettes to actually produce.

So.. about sixteen hours in and no airlock bubbling yet.  I know it may be early and possibly might not ever see bubbling.. but it would be nice to see.

What's the temperature where you are fermenting?  If your "bucket" is on a concrete basement floor, it may be too cool.....just checkin'

it fluctuates between 65-70 in my kitchen where it is living right now.  That being said.. the floor where it is sitting can get very cold (not insulated properly) so I stacked it on another bucket so only the air temp affects it

peteinsuffolk said:

doing my first brew. Decided to keep it simple and do an extract brew. Also, I figured I'd only use one type of hop so I can learn it's characteristics. I wound up going with a $60 kit from Karps for the equipment.

Recipe is attached

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IPA make me Hoppy! :beer

CH

CharlieHotel said:

IPA make me Hoppy! :beer

CH

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verry punny