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funny it took me five years to notice that you guys answered to my original post! At the end did the recipe work out for anybody?

Hi madcowbrewing! I agree with you, I will try my best at participating in all possible competitions that come my way. And yes, they will brew the winning beer so I suppose it is all good, plus the feedback would be great! So recipe it is :) Good luck on your brewery!

Hello McGarnigle, you are right.. As I mentioned to jdauria, this is my first competition and it is outside the US and have no idea what their motive is. So I will lighten up especially in spirit of a nice competition. And you are right, my recipe started 8 years ago as a clone and then started...

Hello Jdauria, thanks for your reply! Yes the rules definitely state that the recipe is required. The competition is not carried out in the US and I was just wondering if it is normal practice to ask for recipes and so on. And yes you are right, the winning recipe gets to get brewed on a...

Thank you GaBrewZoo, Yooper and TreacherousTexan for your input. I thought I might of been a bit paranoid.. Its just that this competition is not in the US where homebrewing is super-active and advanced so it made me wonder a bit on what the level of expertise is here. In any case, you are...

Hello everybody, So, here I am thinking of enrolling my brew in a beer competition - my first competition so far!. The thing is that the organisers require that we state the complete recipe with all the details of the brew. I am a bit hesitant because I am intending in the near future to...

Hello everybody, So, here I am thinking of enrolling my brew in a beer competition - my first competition so far!. The thing is that the organisers require that we state the complete recipe with all the details of the brew. I am a bit hesitant because I am intending in the near future to...

brewed this beer up back in november and every reading was on the dot. the only difference is that I pitched in the irish yeast 1048 because i couldn't find american or london ale yeasts. rumors say this irish yeast doesn't ferment well for high gravity ales and gets tired quite easily.. the...

brewed this beer up back in november and everything reading was on the dot. the only difference is that I pitched in the irish yeast 1048 because i couldn't find american or london ale yeasts. rumors say this irish yeast doesn't ferment well for high gravity ales and gets tired quite easily...

Hello everyone.. i made this imperial porter last weekend with an OG at 1.092.. super tasty wort prior to fermentation. so i used the irish 1084 and used 2L of wort as a starter and pitched it in the next day. Fermentation took off the following day (that is airlock bubbling) and after 7 days...

i'm wondering if the whisky-bourbon addition to the beer before bottling will kill off the yeast cells because of its high alcohol content and hence destroy any chance of the bottled beer to carb correctly.. or is the concentration to low in comparison with the volume of the rest of the beer? hmmm

What do you think about a month in primary and a second month in secondary with toasted oak cubes (soaked in whiskey) for a wood barrel hint to the overall profile of this beer? i'm thinking of re-brewing this this weekend, but not confident with decoction.. will single mash fusion at 154F...

thanks yooper and dinnerstick for your replies! @ yooper: I did it waaaaay over your recommendation. I made 3.5 gallons (still soaking the blueberries in and will pitch in a couple of days) and I put 0.75 to 0.9 Tablespoon !!!! Did I royally screw things up?? Will this create off-flavours...

Hello everyone! first time im making fruitwine.. so today crushed 4.7kg fresh-frozen blueberries in 10L of water. Water in which I put half a Tbsp of Sodium Metabisulfate to: 1) 'sanitize' the water and 2) to kill of wild yeast, etc. that may be in the mix of water-blueberry Is this...

okay, convinced not to put Naphthalene or anything near the grains..thnx for advice.