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This beer turned out really nice. The bitterness reduced a little bit. I thought I had finished this a couple weeks back, then found another small stash which was a bonus.

The 24 hr yeast starter...

Tasting this one. I've had one previous. It had strong butterscotch flavour at about 10 days. Diacetyl Very bitter. No hop flavours or aromas. Now it is cleaner. No butterscotch. Still no hops to...

Just bottled this one. Some number of bottles. I think more than 60 x 330ml/11oz. A bit of a mix of bottles. Moving away from the brown screw off crown bottles I've been using. Replacing with the...

Racked this one today.

40gms Amarillo
40gms Cascade

We will let that one sit for 5 days or so. Very very dry. I didn't think much on the hop flavour intensity.

Also noticed that the tap was...

Thanks. I know what you mean. I think the Amarillo is a bit drier than Cascade. To me it comes across like bitter. Even though it's only dry hoppage.

I think I will stick to the original plan on...

This one is sitting at 1.010. Nicely done. Tastes very good. Great hop flavours. It is bitter though. I am tossing up dry hopping or not. I think I will dry hop with Cascade only. IMO more Amarillo...

I wanted to boil some hops into this beer as well as dry hopping later on. I boiled about 37gms of both Cascade and Amarillo for 10 minutes in 1Kg of DME and 3.5L of water. I had another 1.5L boiled...