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Just wanted to chime in and say I brewed this recipe about two months ago. I've been drinking it for the past week or so and it's one of my favorite beers I've ever made. It was a hit with my family and neighbors as well! I followed the recipe as written here except that I had to substitute...

Hey guys- I picked up a Brewer's Best Belgian Caramel Wit kit to brew this week (it came highly recommended at my LHBS). I haven't brewed this or any other Wit before, and I was wondering if it might benefit from the addition of any spices like coriander or orange peel. Does anyone have any...

Hm well I put about a gallon of water on the bottom of my fermenter, poured my wort on top, and added the rest of the water, and stirred it before taking my hydro sample out with a baster. I hope you're right though, I guess I'll just wait and see how it comes out.

Soo... I brewed this recipe last weekend and follow the recipe in the link pretty much exactly. I took your advice and bumped the steeping time up to 60 min @ 154ish in hopes of getting more fermentables out. BUT for some reason my OG was only 1.040 instead of 1.050 I'm pretty bummed out...

Thanks for the feedback! I've never had Wookey Jack, but it's good to know that there is such a thing as a Black Rye IPA - sounds great. I found this thread on making a clone, but unfortunately I can't do all grain right now...

Planning on brewing tomorrow for the first time in a while. I found a recipe for a Rye IPA I want to try: 5 gallons/19 L, extract with grains; OG = 1.050 FG = 1.013; IBU = 58 SRM = 10 ABV = 4.9% Ingredients: • 3.3 lbs. (1.5 kg) Light liquid malt extract • 2.0 lbs. (0.9 kg) Light dried...

I think I would use these one at a time - maybe the oxyclean first to remove any crud and then a good bleach soak to sanitize. I'm sure someone who knows more about chemistry than me can speak to whether mixing the two products is a good idea or not, but I tend to err on the side of caution...

Well I went ahead and brewed this on Sunday. I steeped all the grains I listed above and used 6.6lbs of Breiss pale LME for a 3 gallon partial boil (I'm limited to the stovetop in my 7th floor apartment). Boiled the Magnum for 60m and added Willamette at flameout. I also threw in 2.5 oz...

Strambo, thanks for running the stats on it - sounds promising! I'm still a noob so this is my first time freestyling. I'm going to go for it on Sunday and see how its turns out. I've never heard of the IBU/SG ratio before though - how does that work? By the way, the carastan malt is...

Thanks for the advice! I'm leaning toward the first option. This will only be my fifth batch but my instincts are telling me it could be decent. What type of extract do you think would be best - just plain old light?

I'm trying to figure out what to brew this weekend, and I want to use up my leftovers from my last couple brew days. Here's what I have on hand: Safale US-05 Dry Yeast .6 oz Magnum Hops @ 14.7% AA .66 oz Willamette Hops @ 4.7% AA .5 lb Breiss 60L Caramel Malt .25 lb Breiss Chocolate...

Update - This has been in the bottles for a couple weeks now, and is tasting great. I followed the directions here but the color came out on the light side for a porter. Any thoughts on why that might be?

I ran across this online and thought it would be fun to share: http://www.sporcle.com/games/druhutch/bunchabeers See how many beers you can identify by the bottle! How did everyone do? I got 63 - embarrassing, but some of those are really hard to see!

Could this be due to adding the extract early in the boil?

You might be right actually - after looking through all of them, it seems like you're just paying a premium for their tried and true recipes. They repackage the ingredients and don't give out the ingredient list or the recipe itself. Not that you probably couldn't reverse engineer it...