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Group C today, best of luck to everyone on the special versions!

See above, be sure to email your home brewing friends as well! Edit: well it really was above when I started writing. Anyway, see Gothic/Ghoti post and this link: http://www.illinoishomebrew.org/

I would divide the idea of "secondary" and "aging" The term secondary tends to be used for non-carbonated beer in a non-serving vessel. A lot can be said on the topic but the gist is that pitching starters, quality sanitation, and good fermentation control reduce the stress on the yeast...

Hooray, more grains. Thanks Bill for arranging this again. Aren't fuggle and centennial sold out this year per the catalog? there are splits up for them.

A great article on the topic from those west coasters: http://www.maltosefalcons.com/tech/formulating-and-brewing-winning-chocolate-porter

I second the spice extract method. A lot of spices have insoluble oils so it makes sense that you would have irregular flavoring if you bottled with cinnamon. Plus it might negatively effect your head retention. I use mid-grade vodka as my solvent going for a neutral flavor. If you keg you can...

1) The coffee will die down with time, that is a beer that needs at least 6 weeks or more in a bottle to reach its prime. 2) Between all the roasted malts and the lactose that's a pretty reasonable gravity, a milk stout finishes out at 1.020-1.022 usually.

I agree with the sentiment that people are putting forth here. Tweaking a recipe with purpose requires that you have the tasting skills to understand where the flavor you want to change is and where you want to go with it. From there you need the brewing and ingredient knowledge to know how to...

Hey pol, you mentioned that you had some experience with a ZD clone? I'm planning on brewing one up once my 2012 citra preorder comes in. I based it off the recipe on HBT but I didn't do the first wort hop and just frontloaded the whole thing. Any pointers?

Here bill, you around?

I'll be there Saturday AM. Thanks again Bill. Also, if anyone is looking for ball lock kegs I bought some good used kegs from a guy in the NW burbs off craigslist for $40 with new rings. He has 3,000 of them.

Plenty of beer character is produced in a boil. Not only do you need a rolling boil to drive off DMS and oxygen, you are also creating the melanoidins which are present in some configuration/character in every beer. Skipping out on the boil is essentially skipping out on a step that adds...

This has been a work in progress for a while but I finally got the last kettle in recently! Sorry there aren't many mid-construction shots but I was busy constructing. Thank you to the authors of the many build threads I looked at for inspiration! Also, thanks to Derrin from Brewer's...

I'm up for a pound of the NS. I assume this is gonna be the last bulk buy until the spring right?

I do something similar to what you do running a Chillius Maximus with TC fittings soldered on and have very good results on 10 gallon batches. The arguments for the IC are the mass cooling and the sanitation issues already discussed. I feel that mass cooling is accomplished well by...