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I wound up using this recipe: 3 gallon batch 3lbs Pale Malt Extract 6oz Old Mill Pecan Pancake Syrup 8oz Crystal 120L 2oz Chocolate Malt 1oz Black Malt .5oz Tettnang 60 min .5oz Fuggle 60 min House Yeast It came out GREAT. It's definitely in my top 5 favorite brews ever.

From 2oz to 1.25lbs?! That's quite an increase lol. I use a "house yeast". Basically, I blended Nottingham, Wyeast Irish Ale Yeast and S-04 together and used it for several batches. Now it has mutated to the point where it doesn't really resemble any of the yeasts I started out with. It has a...

Hey y'all, I have been wanting to make a brown ale for a while and I happen to have .5oz Fuggles and .5oz Tettnang laying around that I need to get rid of. I'm thinking of making the following recipe: 6 gallons 7.5lbs Pale LME 1.5lbs Sugar 2oz Crystal 60L 2oz Chocolate Malt 1oz Black...

My fastest was a 1.080 American Ale brewed with Nottingham Ale Yeast. From pitch to belly in 9 days.

There are a lot of factors that could change the flavor. His hops might not actually be Cascade, they could have been cross pollinated or the conditions in which they were grown/soil composition could be different than the ones you are accustomed to.

You don't need to use a kit. Buying the ingredients alone will help you understand what you're putting into your brews better and will give you the opportunity to start developing your own recipes! Here's a simple IPA recipe I developed that would be good to start with: 8.5lbs Pale Liquid...

Stout Traditional Dry Cider Arrogant Bastard Clone

Black Porter Pumpkin Ale Simple Cider

I just toss the pellets straight into the brew for dry hopping. They'll break down and sink to the bottom with the rest of the sediment in a couple of days. Then I just siphon the clear beer off of the top and into my bottling bucket when it's done.

2 batches of pumpkin ale. One with Nottingham and the other with S-04

Pretty much anything brewed with Nottingham can go in a bottle after a week IMO. My favorite extract ale recipe is consistently carbed up and ready to drink 10 days after pitching.

I would imagine it's about the same

I find your comment humorously uninformed, my friend. When you come to visit, you must be in a bit of a bubble. The things that I stated aren't stereotypes, they're just observations that I've gathered seeing as I'm originally from Mississippi (Clinton, a small town 30 minutes from Jackson and I...

If you don't like slim pickins move to Mississippi. Every girl you meet is a total slut, some of them are pretty hot too.... until you get hitched and then they turn into giant balls of lard. There are a bunch of dry/moist counties just like in Alaska though... Now that I think about it, maybe...

Honestly, I'd befriend the police in town, find out if they drink, and if they do, I'd butter them up with some homebrewed beers every once in a while. The authorities there are obviously corrupt based on what you said. So, if there's something in it for them then I'm sure they wouldn't have a...