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Hey all, I have a punkin ale getting ready to bottle, I'd like to increase the spice accents. I have heard of making a "spice tea" -- how do you do that? Thanks and HAPPY FALL!!

Beer!!!!!

Thanks. Zeg your assumptions are correct. And the 7.8 % is not my math, it was beersmith using actual OG and FG. Actually after a day or two what I'm worried about more now is flavor and did I screw it up???

I brewed a punkin ale, used the puree, and like many here have said, holy trub loss!! I lost close to 1 gallon when I racked to 2dy (normally I don't but I do find a 2dy gets a little clearer beer and this one needed some serious clearing). Anyway, I was worried about toom much head space and...

Bad guess -- no filter into the primary LOL

I like that idea -- how do you do it? Like just supermarket gelatin? How much? Anything else I need to know?

3 weeks in primary it's done believe me. FG 1.012 (from SG 1.073). It's murkey because I had 30 oz of pureed pumpkin in the mash and 30 oz in the boil.

I have a pumpkin in the primary I want to rack to 2dy to clear it up a bit, my hydro sample shows one murky brew. I heard panty hose with a couple marbles over the racking cane will help filter, but how do you keep the panty hose from coming off? Do you just use long ones and hang on? Thanks

Thanks -- I only hav e the bread yeast. It's an experimental thing I've heard from a LHBS for alot of folks root beer isnt root beer unless it has a bread taste, so I figure try making somehting different for the kids. If it sucks, the batch was like $8. LOL

Promised kids to make root beer tonight, we're doing a 2 1/2 gallon batch, carbing with bread yeast but....... HOW MUCH DO I USE? Like 1 packet? Some measured amount? THANKS

I promised kids making root beer tonight, I am going to use bread yeast to carb -- for a 2 1/2 gallon batch, how much do I use?????? Thanks

Can I just cut this recipe in half to scale it? And I'm using bread yeast to carb -- how much?

Dang this is timely. I just got back from Jackson Hole yesterday and I lived on Pako's there, it was dynamite. Funny though the cans (it comes in cans) have it 7.2% abv. Anyway, my wife loved the stuff, she could have sworn she tasted cilantro in it, any thoughts on that (i.e like an...

If you are not force carbing but doing it in bottles using yeast, arent you the getting fermentation? Is it so insignificant it wont matter (i.e. I will brew this for my kids) or is it just simpler to do tablets in the bottles? Also, 5 gallons is a LOT of root beer, if I wanted to scale it to...