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As for combating lack of body, you could start by not adding any additional sugar. Adding sugar will make your brew thinner.

I made mine with dark or liquid LME (not sure which). It's a lot darker looking than any cider, but I like the taste this far. You can probably skip the crystal malt, if you're using dark extract.

The above is a quote from your source I think a lot of brewers here would disagree with as most threads about T-58 on this forum are rather negative. I don't know if I would trust this guy's opinions.

It depends on the style of beer you want to brew. If you want a Belgian ale or a German wheat beer you need the appropriate liquid yeast to get the best results. I think dry yeast is just as good as liquid yeast for more standard beers, like all kind of American and English ales, for example.

Thanks for the info. I think I'm going to give it a shot anyway, but I'll probably halve the amount of powder again (I wasn't planning on using a lot). Hopefully aging/conditioning will improve the beer, if I happen to overdo it. I haven't seen any oak chips around here, sadly.

I just picked up a small packet of oak powder from the brewing section of a store. It says Oakmore and the importers have apparently added the text "Oak Chips" in Finnish. The actual consistency seems much more like a powder or "sawdust". I think it might be this or something like it. The...

Banana flavor in a German wheat beer is a must for me.

I just tried a warm bottle after just two days of priming. It's already carbonated! And good! It is also almost black, because of the dark LME I used. I must say I'm pleasantly surprised and can't wait to try some more after a couple of weeks.

And apparently: quinary, senary, septenary, octonary, nonary and denary. :D

My 2.5 gallon batch will soon be bottled! 158.5

How can anyone think this would be a bad thing? I doubt BMC will be the only choice (if they will even carry it). Starbucks might not focus on really premium beers, but I bet some of the stuff they choose to serve will get more people interested in beer culture and spread awareness. Beer...

I made a 10 liter batch of this yesterday! :mug: I used 8 liters of 100% apple juice from the store. The wort was boiled in 2 liters of water with: 120 g crystal 60 120 g carapils 530 g dark LME 8 g East Kent Goldings I cooled the wort in a water bath, mixed it with the AJ in...

How about a Hefeweizen? The recipes are simple and the beer's ready to drink in just a few weeks. :)

You don't need to mash Carapils.

I brewed this yesterday. A part from an unfortunate boil-over that left caramelized wort all over my stove top, everything went well. :) I added some Van Houten (dutch-processed) cocoa powder at 15 minutes, which added a lovely smell of hot chocolate and a bunch of cocoa fat floating on top of...