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+5 Double IPA = 6797

The Grape and Granary in Akron is probably about a 45 minute drive for you, but worth it if your looking for something specific. They carry just about everything.

+5 American Pale Ale +5 Creme Brûlée Stout = 6059

+5 dortmunder 4025

+5 gallons southern tier pumking clone 3200

This is the recipe I'm going to try out - https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/southern-tier-pumking-clone-191381/index8.html#post2370516 Hopefully I'll brew this weekend if I can find all the stuff.

I'm trying to convert an all-grain recipe I found for pumking ale that calls for 14lbs. of 2-row. I haven't been able to find anything about a close replacement. Can anyone offer any suggestions?

The recipe I'm using (http://www.vthomebrewguru.com/tag/dortmunder/) has it lagering for 3-4 in the secondary, bottling and carbonating, then cold conditioning for another 4-5 weeks. I'm in northeast Ohio, so it'll be cold enough to lager outside for at least another 2 months.

Thanks, that's kind of what I was thinking, but didn't want to wait 3 weeks to find out that something went wrong. Thanks for the nearly instant reply :)

I racked my 2 week old dortmunder into a carboy a few days ago and haven't seen any activity in the airlock since. I checked the gravity and it's reached FG. Right now it's sitting in the garage at about 35 degrees, but I'm worried that there's no activity. This is my first lager, so, is...