After being away from brewing for the birth of my daughter, I wanted to start using the mash tun, it was time to go past the steeping tea bag style. I had my friend comeover and help me out since it was the first attempt on my tun and I felt better having backup in case I needed it. I decided I wanted to make something porter-like. What I ended up with was a dark Brown Ale. ![]() The only part of this brew that frustrated me was that I looked at the White Labs label for the temperature to ferment. Seeing it says 70°-75° for the yeast, not realizing that was just to start fermentation. On the second day of fermentation, I had to add a blowoff tube as the yeast was going crazy. Then I realized my mistake and lowered the temperature to 66°. Never again am I going to look at that label. I was concerned I screwed it up and was going to get some off flavors. Luckily, because of it being a malty beer, there was nothing noticeable and the beer tasted really good and want I wanted. ![]() After a few beers of it I decided to I served it along with the next beer I brewed at my daughter's baptism party. So I couldn't drink too much as I had it in a 3 gallon keg, the rest were in bottles. |
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