Made a beer on the weekend, everything looks lovely up until I taste the wort.
Forgot that Millennium is around 14.5%AA, and overdid it a little bit. 51 IBU is a bit more than I wanted, I was looking for somewhere above 20. This'll teach me to dream up recipes on the fly in the LHBS.
I was pretty down at first, the beer is undrinkable to me. However, through the moping, I had an AHA! moment. I'm figuring I can whip up another 23 litres with little or no hops (will have to be an extract job) and blend the two together, for 46 litres of beer rather than 23 litres of tears.
I ask this question assuming that my plan will in fact work and I actually have averted the crisis :
When have you snatched victory from the jaws of defeat? What nifty tricks have you pulled to avoid wasting all your hard brewing work?
Forgot that Millennium is around 14.5%AA, and overdid it a little bit. 51 IBU is a bit more than I wanted, I was looking for somewhere above 20. This'll teach me to dream up recipes on the fly in the LHBS.
I was pretty down at first, the beer is undrinkable to me. However, through the moping, I had an AHA! moment. I'm figuring I can whip up another 23 litres with little or no hops (will have to be an extract job) and blend the two together, for 46 litres of beer rather than 23 litres of tears.
I ask this question assuming that my plan will in fact work and I actually have averted the crisis :
When have you snatched victory from the jaws of defeat? What nifty tricks have you pulled to avoid wasting all your hard brewing work?