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    time to play the "can you name this style by the pictures" game.

    Barleywine
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    All Grain Beer Tastes Watery

    Great thanks for the tips! I've certainly considered adding some Carapils as well. I'm going to try out the CaCl in the water. The water I've been using is a generic "Purified Water" so I'm assuming it was made by RO.
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    All Grain Beer Tastes Watery

    My FG's are pretty good. With the last APA I made it was a .050 OG and .010 FG. I carbonated in the bottle for 2 weeks. It seems well carbed.
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    All Grain Beer Tastes Watery

    Great thanks for the suggestions. I think the water is RO so that may be the problem there. Can I still brew with this water and just adjust by adding some brewing salts etc....?
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    All Grain Beer Tastes Watery

    So I've completed a few All-Grain beers to date and have had decent success. All of the beers had good flavors and aroma etc... There has been only one concern. The beer tastes extremely "clean" almost watery with little body or mouth feel. I'm not sure exactly what is going wrong at this point...
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    BJCP Guidelines

    Hello Folks, My buddy and I are about to enter our first homebrew contest and I've been wondering about something. Does it matter what region the ingredients are from as long as everything else meets the guidelines? So for instance if I am brewing and APA would it matter if I tossed some...
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    First All-Grain Recipe

    Hey Guys This is my first AG recipe and was hoping for some feedback. This is meant as a Winter style beer and any constructive criticism you have is appreciated. Thanks -10lbs pale 2-row -2 Lbs Carared -0.50 chocolate malt -0.25 biscuit malt -0.25 special B malt -0.50 honey malt...
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    Prolonged Fermentation Advice

    Ok thanks for the advice. I checked the gravity out of primary and it was down to 10 from a 51. I'll check it again before kegging.
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    Prolonged Fermentation Advice

    Hello All, This might be a bit of a rookie question but I'll give it a shot. I pitched a Belgian Ardennes on a 5 1/2 gallon batch of Wort. I let this sit in primary for about 5 days where is was violently fermenting. When this subsided I racked to secondary and dry hopped for 2 weeks...
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    Smoked Malts: Appropriate Amounts

    So this would absolutely have to be mashed? I won't extract any of the smoked character if i don't mash this?
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    Smoked Malts: Appropriate Amounts

    Hello, I was just hoping someone would could let me know the appropriate amount of smoked malt to use for a 5 Gallon batch of extract. This is an all extract PORTER recipe using steeping grains. The recipe includes: Smoked Malt Black Malt Chocolate Malt Caramel Malt Light Malt extract
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    Water Volume for Mash/Lauter Vessel

    Thanks for the info everyone. So it looks like I should heat my mash water toss in the grains and then add sparge water after mash is complete. This brings me to my next question. Since I'm mashing/sparging from the same vessal using direct heat does it matter what the temperature is of the...
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    Water Volume for Mash/Lauter Vessel

    Just a quick question. If I am using a single vessel for both Mashing and Sparging using direct heat can I just add the total water volume at the beginning or do I still need to start with mash water volume and then add sparge water?
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    How many gallons of homebrew in 2009?

    +10 = 30862
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    Boilmaker Mash/Boiling Pot Question

    I've been doing extract with specialty grain but have not attempted any partial mash. I will most likely be do some partial mash before I get into AG. I just want to know if the process I have mentioned here would work whenever I decide to go forward with AG.
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