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Yes it was very dark for sure! So dark that I couldn't see the 5 gallon sharpie mark on the carboy after I covered it up... so not really the color of gingerbread!

This is my first time formulating a recipe, I combined and tweaked elements from some recipes here and elsewhere on the internet. I just brewed this up yesterday, so I will update as I go. It is a PM 5 gallon recipe. Extract: 4 lbs Amber DME Grains: 12 oz caramel/crystal 60 12 oz German...

5 gallons gingerbread stout yesterday. 32,073.5+5= 32,078.5

Hi Jon! We're in SE, moved here from NYC two years ago... great beer community here! Welcome to the forum and enjoy watching the fermenter and the goodness that will come afterwards :)

We have made a couple ciders so far (also started as beer brewers), and my first time I used this recipe: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f81/apple-blackberry-cider-449656/ We just let this ferment out all the way and then bottled with enough sugar to carbonate but not to sweeten, it was...

Yes, that was definitely the facepalm part of all of that, that he realized later! :mug:

Our first time brewing, we feared the foam and rinsed out the carboy with tap water in a moment of panic before transferring the wort. Everything turned out fine but we sure felt like idiots about half an hour later when we looked it up on here. Beer turned out fine and we learned to relax...

5 gal - saison 5 gal - strawberry blonde 5 gal - pumpkin ale = 25,632.5 gallons

Onipar's Moon Hill Pumpkin Ale (PM version) with a few minor adjustments... wort was delicious!:)

Hi Ong! We're in SE too (Sellwood). We have an awesome homebrew supply store in our neighborhood called the U-Brew, ever been there?

Hello all! We are a married couple in Portland who have been brewing together since 2012, we have about 6 partial mashes under our belt and 2 ciders. We just started kegging and eventually hope to move to all grain. We have learned so much and gotten some wonderful recipes from this forum so...