Journal of Brewing

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Color - 4
Nose - 2
Body - 4
Flavor - 4

Tasting Notes: Definitely a beer for the warmer weather. The head tends to stick around longer than I thought it would. The color reminds me of an english [...]

Looking inside the fermenter (or spackle bucket as Pete likes to call it) there was the typical layer of gunk around the top. All foaming had settled but there was quite a good amount of flocculation on the bottom that I observed after siphoning. I took a gravity reading and it stood at [...]

Recipe Source: Northern Brewer
As the winter finally began to show signs of relenting I decided that the darker beers could take a back seat. It was time to bring in those lighter color beers that remind me of spring and summer. With that in mind I decided to try out the Irish Draught [...]

Recipe Source: Keystone Homebrew
This entry was written many months after the actual brewing and consumption of the Oatmeal Stout. As such, it will not be very detailed and will mostly be what I remembered. This was my first in home brewing experience.
So after reading, studying and watching the Good Eats episode entited Amber [...]

The first thing I noticed about this recipe from others was that it used a lot less malt extract syrup than I had used before. They also picked a nice selection of specialty grains that I steeped in the water first. In place of another 3.3lbs of malt extract syrup, there was 1lb [...]