Recent content by edco76

So, I've been wanting to whoop up a good Rye Brown Ale. Two of my local breweries have one and they are both fantastic. Trim Tab Pillar to Post is my favorite but they are a small local brewery (Birmingham,AL) so I couldnt find a clone...

Sorry, I havent been around much. My batch turned out fantastic. It tasted almost identical to Truck Stop Honey but was a shade darker in color. It was really good about 8 weeks in the bottle. I actually had one this weekend and it is still pretty damned good.

I have a pack of Brewer's Best Grapefruit Peel I plan on doing a cascade/centennial/citra/mosaic Gonna add these to the dry hop. I have no idea what will happen

So, since it seems I never get to brew when I plan on it, Ive been keeping my hops in the freezer. I already keep my opened ones there so I just started tossing them all in. Somehow when I looked in the bag today, it had a package of Safale 05 in it. So its been in there about a week. Will...

Terrapin Liquid Bliss is the best Chocolate PB beer I have found. They call it a porter but I have seen them be very responsive to homebrewers before. may be worth a shot to send them an email. Here is what info is on their site

It actually looks to me like you under primed.... I just brewed a Honey Brown Ale that I primed with honey. I think I added 4.5oz of honey for a 2.3 Co2 volume for a 5g batch @ 68F The source I just googled says 3TBS of honey should weigh about 2.4oz What yeast did you use? I used S-05...

Can't really help but good luck. Lagunita's Nighttime is a really yummy dark IPA also. I would like to brew one soon so I'll keep an eye on ideas.

sounds good. They are generally bittering hops right? So just through in @ 60?

So far I have seen 2 different methods of getting the steep in on extract brews. I have been hitting 150f, then steeping the grains for 30min, while watching the thermometer and keeping it 150-160 This has worked out well so far but lately I have also seen some recipes that just call for...

Ok, got this in Beersmith ATM 6lb Golden DME (3lb 60min boil, 3lb 15minutes) .75lb Caramel 40 (steep for 30 @ 150-160F) .5lb Corn Sugar (15 minutes) .5oz Cascade 60min 1oz Centennial 10min 1oz Mosaic 5min .5oz Cascade 5min 1oz Mosaic FO .5oz Cascade FO Dry hop x 7 days 1oz Centennial 1oz...

Brown IPA sounds interesting. May save that one for later though. How about 6lb DME .75 Caramel 40 (Steeped) .5 Cascade 60 1oz Centennial 10 1oz Mosaic 5 1oz Mosaic flameout Dry hop 1oz centennial, 1oz mosaic Maybe an ounce of cascade at dry hop as well? Just for fun?

So I had a recipe I wanted to try but when I hit up my LHBS, they were out of citra hops. I still want to brew an IPA Friday. This is what I have on hand: Golden Light DME 6# Caramel 40 .75# Plenty of corn and table sugar Got some Chocolate wheat and some Caramunich in the freezer to...

Well, I just put my last 6 in the fridge and I'm drinking one now! IT absolutely got better and I would say it is peaked about right now. I'll definitely be brewing the recipe again and don't really know how I would go about improving it any.

BTW, 8oz of nibs soaks up a lot of vodka lol. I ended up with an ABV of 6.8 which is a pretty big over shoot for the Moo-Hoo. Dunno if it was vodka, or a mistep in the recipe. I'm totally ok with having a big, yummy, chocolate stout though

Well, mine has only been in the bottle about 2 weeks. As a chocolate stout, it is REALLY damned good! Even this new and I'm sure it will be better. As a Moo-Hoo though, I dunno. I'm going to track some down and do a comparison after a couple more weeks but I agree. It doesnt quite seem to have...