Galaxy is a great hop if you're going for a juicy fruit-forward hop profile. It's comparable to Mosaic in that regard. Load up on late additions and dry hop with it and you'll get a great tropical fruit profile. I recently did a IPA with Nugget, Citra and Galaxy, the magic they made together...

Ended up brewing a 2 gallon test batch of the recipe below. I've got it sitting in fermentation at 62-63 degree range, bubbling along nicely. Brew Method: BIAB Style Name: Irish Red Ale Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 2.2 gallons (fermentor volume) Boil Size: 3.2 gallons Boil Gravity: 1.036...

Was talking to the guys at HomeBrewTalk and decided to tweak the grain bill to include Roasted Barley as this is important to the style. Heard it from two sources (thanks jmcnamara). I reduced the CaraAroma a bit as well: FERMENTABLES: 8.25 lb - United Kingdom - Pale 2-Row (82.9%) 0.6 lb -...

Ah, I see. Yeah, I see a lot of red ale recipes use roasted barley. Thought I would try and be different. 8-)

Is more color really needed? I'm already at the upped end of the SRM range of 9-18 for the style at 16.3

Trying to put together a Irish Red Ale recipe and came up with this based on research, anything I'm missing? Am I going too strong on the aroma late hop additions for the style? Planning on a BIAB no sparge method, will probably scale this down to 2 gallons to test...

Bottled the 2nd batch this weekend and tasted the sample. Not using hop socks and adding the Citra flameout addition really bumped up the hop flavor and aroma. The change to crystal 60L also improved the overall malt character. This batch tastes like a winner, but won't know for sure until its...

temp controlled beer tasted fine, was even kinda good. Carbonation was better and not too bad on flavor, might have been an off bottle earlier.

Yeah, I'm going to drink up tonight (in the name of science of course) since it's Friday. I'm trying one from room temp and one from temp control to see if there is a difference. I'm going to brew 2 gallons of this recipe again this weekend with a couple tweaks to the grain profile (removed the...

It for sure seemed a bit sour, not like the other couple bottles I drank. Wasn't rotten though, just didn't taste like a beer I could drink. I was thinking too that I flipped the bottles, may have introduced oxygen from the empty headspace I left into the beer? Not sure there was enough in there...

I tried one last night and something must have happened when I moved it inside where it is warmer, tasted disgusting, I had to dump the glass. :shock: Still have some that I left in my temp control area, going to see if those were affected tonight.

haha, no worries I like learning extra things. Maybe giving flameout/whirlpool a try on the next batch. Moved some of the bottles inside where it's warmer. Seem to be carbing up better (I used plastic bottles, so I can do a squeeze test). Giving them until Friday to try another, that would be...

The hop flavor just wasn't coming through. It wasn't noticable unless you were really looking for it. It's drinkable, but just not what I expected. I left the whole neck of the bottle empty. I was trying compensate for the fact that the coopers drops only prime 12oz a drop per the package. I...

Opened one up after two weeks in the bottle at 72 degrees. The hop flavor was there but not nearly what I expected. Also didn't carbonate very much at all, was almost flat. I think I may have left too much headspace in the botttles or had slow yeast. I used one cooper's carb drop per bottle...

My vote goes for the Mr. Beer little brown keg as well. I use one for 2 gallon batches without issue. Just make sure you check ti for leaks before you start your brew day. I got a leak in one on first use at a seam. Took a pic and they sent me a new one. I managed to seal the old one, so got two...

I have the same setup as you. I brew 2 gallon batches using the Inkbird and a mini-fridge, nothing plugged into the heating side. Works well, stays within a 2-3 degree range with a +1 variance set for the cooling range. Might have to move fridge out of garage or get a fermwrap as mentioned...

Would not squeezing my hop bags make a difference? I was thinking back to my brew day and realized I didn't squeeze out the absorbed wort from my hop bags. This was my hop schedule: 0.2 oz Simcoe 14AA Boil 40 min 25.42 IBU 0.4 oz Citra 13.9AA Boil 10 min 13.95 IBU 0.4 oz Cascade 7AA Boil 5 min...

Didn't notice the cooked corn smell. I'll have to give it a sniff before I bottle it tomorrow. Maybe the hop schedule will need to be adjusted, guess I'll find out after bottle conditioning.

Plan on bottling on 9/26/15. Got two seperate hydrometer readings of 1.013 final gravity, fermentation seems to be complete. Sample from fementer didn't seem as hoppy as the post-boil wort, almost a bit Budweisery. :? Hopefully the bottle conditioning and final cooling will make a difference in...

I got a 2 gallon tester in the fermentor on 9/12. I ended up tweaking the recipe, took out the Mosaic as I couldn't find any in enough time. Added in Cascade instead. Hop profile was pretty good in the post-boil sample I tasted. http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/r ... e-2-gallon Got a...