ryepa in secondary, 1st inki brown

Racked rypea to secondary so i can boil the home recipe brown ale tomorrow morning or late tonight. should bottle ryepa in 2 weeksish (8/12). gravity was about 1.015. so far the most behaving brew

brewing my version of big river brown with amber DME instead of the LME. had to measure grains by volume since no scale (6T hopefully equals 2oz). munton's cheap yeast, used DME in starter for first time, hopefuly good.

midwest ryepa, brown ale first taste

yikes! waited a long time to do ryepa. followed midwest recipe pretty closely. 1.045 before yeast. Will bottle on 8/12 maybe. gonna do the primary-only for 3 weeks. i added whirlfloc at 10 minutes, we'll see whether that make a difference.

brown ale turned out good. tried a bottle after 8 days, just fine.

brown ale bottling day

bottled the brown ale after 3 weeks in primary. gravity was still just below 02. we'll see how it turns out. sample tasted good, but i could taste the priming sugar. next boil soon.

brown ale continues, first taste of red

brown ale is at 1.015-02, forgot to get the og, probably was 1.04. i'm on the fence about secondary for this one, so i'm going to take another gravity 2 days in a row and move it to secondary if it seems done. crap, i'm tempted to just rack it anyway so i can get the ryepa in the fermenter! might try irish moss on the ryepa.

red ale that was bottled on 6/15, first taste: very carbonated! not super flavorful. yeasty smell when the bottle was opened. fair bitter dry aftertaste. not syrupy like i was afraid it would be. had a bit of the chill haze. gave a sip to joe, who said "good", as he does to anything that doesn't suck.

bottling day #1

bottled the irish red. tastes like flat beer, so i guess we're good! the brown ale is bubbling slower now, if it's anything like the red, it will be ready for secondary around the 20th, right before wv.

big river brown - first time

i boiled the big river brown ale. bubbled nicely within first day. used the yeast that came with it. followed the instructions pretty exactly this time

red ale - yeast harvest experiment

consolidated harvest jars into one pint jar on 6/2. jar looks good, with a 1/4 inch of yeast at the bottom. waiting for 2 more kits this week. will try to start another batch this weekend if possible