Posted: 8/9/2016 5:09:17 PM EDT
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Gonna make my first beer this weekend. Friend gave me a Brooklyn brewshop everyday IPA kit for a gallon batch. He has had it in his basement for "maybe a year" says best by April 2013.
Was planning on getting new yeast. You reckon the hops are ok? Looks pelletized. |
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I'd get new hops.
Edit: I'd get a new kit. I'm assuming it's an extract kit and it's likely too old for decent results. Edit again: I just read the instructions and it's all-grain. I don't know what the shelf life of grain is. I think I would keep the gear from the kit, look up a 1 gallon recipe online, get those ingredients, and make it. |
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I'd get new hops. Edit: I'd get a new kit. I'm assuming it's an extract kit and it's likely too old for decent results. Edit again: I just read the instructions and it's all-grain. I don't know what the shelf life of grain is. I think I would keep the gear from the kit, look up a 1 gallon recipe online, get those ingredients, and make it. Ok. thanks for the input. |
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Hell, brew it up. If itsucks, all you've wasted is time. I bet it is drinkable, though it is an IPA, which I don't like. Edit: it's an IPA, can't taste any worse than a normal ale. So I ended up getting a whole new recipe for a 1 gallon IPA 2.75 lb 2row barley 2/3lb crystal malt .6 oz warrior 1 oz citra half in boil half in 10 days. And then some yeast the guy recommended So I doubled the hops and used them on the old one. I also opened the old hops and the smelled nice. So I used them too on the one batch. It came with about 1/8oz Columbus for bittering and about 1/4 oz cascade for flavor. So I have 2 batches going. I'll rack it and dry hop it Monday. Also it didn't have any priming sugar. Any recommendations? |
| Awesome! You can use granulated sugar in the place of dextrose. Here's a priming sugar calculator: http://www.brewersfriend.com/beer-priming-calculator/ |
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Awesome! You can use granulated sugar in the place of dextrose. Here's a priming sugar calculator: http://www.brewersfriend.com/beer-priming-calculator/ That is very helpful. Thank you. |