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Turned out well. Good creamy mouth feel. I would just suggest that you go as nuts as you can with the hopping.

This is what I had from my Oatmeal IPA

I've tried this a few different ways. Belgian Abbey II from Wyeast also works really well... as does switching out the Simcoe for all Citra.

Vizio would be skroooooooooooooooooood then. That's their whole business model. Anyway, I was having a discussion last night with someone about yeast strains and the "rights" to them. Unless you're in a Monsanto type situation, where they genetically engineer something and have a patent on it -...

I used RVA's "Hoptopper" in this: https://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/single-hop-rakau-ipa-test-2 I haven't tried culturing from Heady Topper cans or the GigaYeast variant, but I'm hoping for good things. Will let you know in two weeks how it turned out.

I too decided to do an Oatmeal IPA based on what I had around the house. 74% 2-Row 9% Bob's Red Mill oatmeal 8% Panela brown sugar 7% C-60 Heady Topper Yeast (RVA Labs "Hoptopper") And a generous dose of Calypso hops. The nose on this thing is incredible. Started off at 19.2 brix and...

I made a cider out of S-33, and it had almost undrinkable levels of sulfur that never went away.

A dude I know that's into cider making, who is dating a friend of mine, back sweetens with stevia, since it's not fermentable. I've never tried it, but I suppose it could be worth testing out.

I did 6gal of local UV-pasturized cider and put that together with 1lb of raw honey from a local farm, .5lb of Mexican brown sugar, and a packet of Danstar 11G Nottingham. Bubbling away, as we speak. I use a lot of Wyeast blends typically, when I homebrew - so going to a dry yeast is a bit...

I was there over the weekend. Came away with 2x 3gal buckets of the "cider-makers blend", and put that together with 1lb of raw honey from Burnside Farms in Haymarket VA, .5lb of Mexican brown sugar, and a packet of Nottingham. I really liked the place. The people we super friendly, and the...

Until it's done, really - or until I need the whiskey for something.

Oh wow... okay. Thanks. If 1/5th of a bean will service one 750ML, I'm going to need to figure out what to do with the other 15 beans, LOL. I got a pretty decent deal online, where I found 16 Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla beans for $13. I guess I could always buy some White Oak from Bruery and...

I have a batch of stout that I recently brewed and bottled in 750's. I was thinking about popping the top on a couple, and putting a vanilla bean (or two?) in, that I'd had soaking in whiskey for about a week. Thoughts?

That's pretty sexy.

So I was planning on brewing a lambic with raspberries, and I was wondering how most people dealt with the seeds.