As others have said, your beer is just fine. To save yourself time on future brews: You don't need to hydrate dry yeast before using. Nor do you need to oxygenate the wort when using dry yeast. Neither hurts the yeast, but they don't help the yeast either. If you are using liquid yeast (or...

As my daughter is fond of saying "There is a reason women live longer than men!" She's not wrong. :D

Yeah, unfortunately that's why that candy, and others, will have to remain a childhood memory :(

I pasted the url into chrome and it played --> I agree he is really good!

If your LHBS is close by, this is what I'd do. If it's a pain, and even if it isn't, I think going with what you got will be just fine too.

If that picture didn't make me want to taste/brew that beer, resurrecting the childhood memory certainly did!

Great looking beer and I love the name!

Couldn't edit my earlier post so, correcting it here.

I was thinking the same thing!

Happy New Year to everyone!

On the call we decided we had to delay the draw because it would be official without our Official Name Drawer Sophie!

I think a Dark Mild or a Cascadian Dark will be my next brew. Just have to find the time.

How long do you drain the wort for before putting the grain in a kettle for decoction? The few times I've done a decoction you could still see some liquid. How long, and how hot, do you cook the decoction before returning it to the mash? I ask because I didn't really notice a difference when...

Fascinating idea. I've never thought of that. Most home brewers lucky enough to live near farms can give their spent grain directly to the farmer right after brew day is done. Like you say getting the moisture content down to 10% would be the only challenge in order pelletize your spent...

Right. You can either buy a $50 widget with free shipping or you can buy this $40 widget with $10 shipping. I think the payoff for businesses is that they get people to buy more stuff just to get free shipping. Also, a shipping company's (FedEx, UPS, USPS, etc.) labor costs are the reason...

You are one lucky man Ben!

I don't know if a 1/2 gallon of Wheat Wine would be a good thing! It would definitely be a one-and-done...well, it should be a one-and-done. o_O

I'm glad the better team won! :p

I was only able to brew 7 times this year with one more planned before the end of the year. I'm kegging now so my batches have been limited to 5 gallon into kegs but a couple (Josh's "Smidicks") have been 7.5 gallon batches that I split amongst 2 kegs.