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5 gallons Hefe 5 gallons IPA 5 gallons ESB 5 gallons Scottish Heavy 5 gallons Scottish Heavy II 5 gallons Pumpkin Ale 5 gallons English IPA 5 gallons Pale Ale 5 gallons Chocolate PB oatmeal stout 45 gallons + 25,957.5 = 26002.5

i would go: 1.00 oz Centennial [10.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min 1.00 oz Centennial [10.00 %] - Boil 20.0 min 1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 10.0 min 1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 5.0 min 1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Boil 1.0 min 1.00 oz Mosaic [12.00 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days 1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] -...

congrats bluelimbo! its great feeling for you & your friends to share the fruits of your labor......

i talked to my buddies at the LHBS and they seem to think its the same issue with stirring.... i am ultra conservative when i comes to sanitation & i never think of mixing when i add sugar solution because of risk of infection, instead i place the racking tube next to the run off from the...

cool, thanks for the response

some of my batches i have been cold crashing & some i haven't.... but it seems that a few brews came out flat that i cold crashed & then bottled. i am pretty sure i had the priming sugar in solution right. my question is: does cold crashing take too many yeasts out of the beer before...

+5 american stout 27748 + 5 = 27753

my nut brown ale as i a brew a stout....

27,560 + 5 gallons of IPA = 27,565 total

Alpine Duet Alpine Nelson Alpine True Hoppiness Firestone Black Rye IPA Ballast Point Durado IPA Green Flash Imperial Red Rye Alesmith ESB that is my current goto list....

26,201.75 + 5 gallons of Ballast Point Homework Series Hoppy Red Ale = 26,206.75 total

i had the same question when i was putting together a nut brown ale recipe at a LHBS & the owner told me to taste both of the grains.... from my understanding they both are very similar, so it might just come down to personal preference? would be interested to hear what others say...

3.5 gallons of Imperial Rye Oatmeal Stout 3.5 + 24,220 = 24,223.5

awesome! thank you

i reassessed my hops & decided to go with 1oz of EKG & 1oz of cascade at the beginning of the boil. felt it might pair better with the stout..... that puts me at 42 IBU's & .401 IBU/SG ratio