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• Posted in thread: Barley wine: Bulk aging vs aging in the bottle on 12-20-2009 at 01:58 PM
  How about a 4th? Oak right away then bulk age. Then two weeks before bottleing add the hops.
  That way the oak had time to age and the hops are nice and fresh."Option 4" seems like this
  might impart to...

• Posted in thread: Barley wine: Bulk aging vs aging in the bottle on 12-19-2009 at 04:07 AM
  Anyone have any thoughts/opinions?

• Posted in thread: Barley wine: Bulk aging vs aging in the bottle on 12-19-2009 at 02:33 AM
  I'm brewing my first barley wine this weekend - I'll be dry hopping as well as adding some oak
  chips to the secondary. I plan on leaving it on the oak for around 4 weeks and the dry hop for
  the last t...

• Posted in thread: Making a starter tonight - need help. on 12-09-2009 at 12:24 AM
  I'm brewing up an IPA in the next couple of days and I have a couple of questions. I've made a
  few small starters in the past just to get the yeast active and ready to ferment. Today I went
  onto the c...

• Posted in thread: Wort Chiller Build on 11-25-2009 at 05:49 PM
  Anyone have an opinion between an IC and a CFC with recirculated ice water? Which would cool
  the wort more quickly? Seems like CFC would be the way to go...

• Posted in thread: Wort Chiller Build on 11-25-2009 at 05:23 PM
  Anyone have an opinion between an IC and a CFC with recirculated ice water? Which would cool
  the wort more quickly? Seems like CFC would be the way to go...

• Posted in thread: Wort Chiller Build on 11-25-2009 at 04:59 PM
  You're probably right - a cheap submersible pump is probably the way to go with a bucket of ice
  water. How fast can chill a 5 gallon batch with your method, Greg? How many gallons/minute do I
  want to ...

• Posted in thread: Wort Chiller Build on 11-25-2009 at 03:27 PM
  So I'm headed out to the in-laws for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and my father-in-law and
  I are going to build a wort chiller. I've been weighing my options - and all seem to have their
  pros and ...

• Posted in thread: First Wort Hop - Extract Brewer Question.... on 11-13-2009 at 12:36 AM
  Thanks for the help - I was thinking #1 looked best as well. How long would you recommend a
  "hop rest"?I'm not doing full boils - how will this affect things?Anyone else have an opinion?

• Posted in thread: First Wort Hop - Extract Brewer Question.... on 11-11-2009 at 07:33 PM
  Just opened my first IPA recipe and I'm really liking it. There are a couple of things I'd like
  to fine tune for my next crack at this recipe. I've been reading about FWH - the problem is,
  all the inf...