Try Try Again

Having found a number of likely causes of the weird flavors in my previous batches of beer, and with the recent success of my most recent one, I have decided to brew another this weekend to make sure my system is alright before moving onto the bigger beers I'm looking at doing soon. I'm looking to make a batch that is fairly light on cost, so it will need to be lower in gravity and lower in hops, but I'm looking for another winter style. That leads me to a style I've never tried making before: Brown Porter. It just sounds like an interesting style to try if I'm going to stay light on the gravity while aiming to have a good amount of flavor. I'll try my hand at constructing a recipe tonight or tomorrow and post it.

Amber Update

The amber took about 5 days to get the fermentation started. That's what I get for using yeast that was months old and not using a starter. Oh well. I also boiled up 2 pounds of light dry malt extract and poured it (after cooling) into the fermenter to boost the gravity. Adding that volume and DME leaves me with 5.75 gallons of beer with a starting gravity of 1.056. That's close enough to what I was looking for.