Recent content by amd133mhz

Wow. I was the second comment on this thread when I was brand new to brewing. I took a break from the forums for a bit and came back to see this post STILL going! Ha that's crazy. I actually JUST did my first 1 gallon batch finally thought I would comment. Amazing this post is still alive. My...

Stout , black IPA, as long as its black and taste like hops I'll be happy :)

I went off the reservation with this one anyway might as well go full bore with the yeast! I added like 8 oz of Muntons chocolate malt to really darken it up on top of the 8oz of 80l caramel and 8oz of crushed victory.

I am brewing a black IPA and wanted to toss is white labs british ale yeast WLP005 instead of the included DRY-97 American west coast dry ale yeast. Any thoughts? Thanks (been awhile since I brewed, this will be my first brew in a year! :) )

http://beercalculus.hopvillebeta.com/recipe check out this site. It is a lot of fun to punch in your recipe and technique. Sounds good to me but I am still a bit of a rookie. I added vanilla to a porter kit.delicious. I say if it sounds to you like it would be good in that style of beer,Then i...

Yea this beer turned out to be my best ever. best flavor,best head retention best everything. Sadly its all gone. I am brewing a milk stout now,nothing special added

I have brewed a Brewers best irish stout,robust porter and Milk stout I can honestly say that they are easy and fun. I brewed the irish stout first and even though i didnt give it enough time and had a few errors it still came out beer and tasted pretty great I really enhanced the robust...

I'd drink that. Its gonna be pretty good i bet,creamy,rich,probably strong. did you pitch below 80F? if so I think thats gonna be really good. Just watch it make sure you dont blow off the airlock. run a hose to a bottle of star san or sanitizer,with all that sugar that would be my only concern...

Hello all! I was wondering if I could gather some opinions about dry hopping a milk stout. I forgot to add my aroma hops after my boil ,so it just has a 1/2 oz of bittering hops. Its already in primary bubbling away and I am thinking about leaving the beer as is,no aroma hops and just...

I made a vanilla robust porter and it is fantastic. I split open the beans scraped out the bean, chopped up the rest,tossed into some spiced rum for about an hour, ran what was in the rum through a coffe filter,took that and tossed it into my secondary and siphoned onto it. It was amazing...

I split a 2 gallon batch between two 1 gallon containers. fermented hard core first day. day 2 it looks like it just stopped. very odd,but enjoying this experiment either way it goes.Any ideas why the ferment seems to have slowed significantly in such a short time?

I would crush 4 oz, if its a 5 gallon recipe, steep it for 20 min at 150f. It might be good I am always thinking of things to make. lately I have been wanting my beer to taste like breakfast cereal. more specifically sugar coated puffed wheat. No idea how but like this idea,it all starts as a...

my total overhead was 250$ got a brew pot(5 gallon stock pot) and a brewers best kit with 2 5gallon buckets and a 5 gallon carboy amongst many accessories. Welcome to the world of home brewing, I too am new to it but once your hooked its like a addiction making beer. Mr beer seems pretty cool...

how long in primary/secondary? what kind of kit, out of curiosity? what kind of temp did you have during ferment?

Just finished up my first 2 gallon batch. Mr IPA. my lhbs designed it to be used with mr beer equip, rather than a can and sugar its the same concept as brewers best, hops dry malt grains. Tons of fun. cant wait to see how it turns out