This beer is coming along quite nicely! Close to being fully carbed. Will post a pic soon. I tasted the beer a week ago, and it was really sweet, and super cloudy. Taste was to the point where I was thinking I might have to dump. What a difference a week makes. The sweetness has gone down.

I ended up with 1.020, when the dust settled, after a week in a corny at 68F. I raised to 72F for two days, and then crashed to 34F. A little on the sweet side, but not as bad as I thought. Once it's carbed up and clear, I will post a pic.

It's been 6 days in the fermenter, with no visual activity for 3 days. Took a hydrometer reading from the fermenter spigot, 1.022. Will let it sit for a few more days on the yeast cake, before racking to secondary. Still very cloudy.

Well, I brewed this puppy today. Ended up with 5 gallons instead of 5.5 in the fermenter. 1.062 OG. Definitely will not be an 8b. The challenger and east Kent hops smelled great. Taste of hydro reading wort was good. Will let you know what we're looking at in two weeks.

This beer won the gold medal in the English Pale Ale category, in the 2014 National Homebrew Competition, out of 270 entries. Can't wait to try it. I will give updates.

This weekend I plan on brewing an English Ale. I found a recipe on AHA, Dennis Collins, Full Monty British Ale. I copied it over to Brewer's Friend, and scaled it down a wee bit, from 6.5 gallons to 5.5. Dennis claims that the FG should be 1.010, but BF gives me an estimated FG of 1.014...

well, with the help of another water profile Calc, I was able to get my water sorted out. I went with a water profile that was somewhere between a brown and a full black. The brewing went great yesterday, Brewer's Friend program is great for step by step, and the log entries. I use a brew bag...

Brewing a Porter this weekend, from a recipe that my LHBS recommended. I will be brewing with RO water, and for the life of me, can't figure out what I need to do to adjust my water for mash and brew. If I use the London Porter/dark ale profile, I find it near impossible to to adjust for the...