Recent content by Pyro

Will do. I made a Chocolate Stout last year for Festivus and it had a great chocolate flavor...and I only used 6 oz in that batch. It already smells great in the primary...can't wait.

Extract w/ grain recipe .5 lb Cara-Pils .25 lb Special B 1.5 lbs Wheat DME @ 60 min. 1 lb honey 4.5 lbs Wheat DME @ 20 min. .5 oz Sterling & 4 oz cocoa powder @ 60 min. .5 oz Sterling & 4 oz cocoa powder @ 20 min. 1 t Irish Moss @ 15 min. .5 t yeast nutrient @ 10 min. 4...

SewerRanger's recipe inspired me to try something like this yesterday, but I changed quite a few things. Should be done & kegged by Festivus. I'll let everyone know how my version turned out.

The blueberries weren't too bad cost wise, maybe 10-12 bucks, but I just feel like the past year was such a waste as I am one that likes to let my cider go for at least a year or two. I've made pilot batches before(1 gallon), but I new from the start this recipe would be killer, so I went with a...

Sooooo dissapointed. I loved everything about this recipe, the flavor, the color, a perfect amount of residual sweetness, etherything...until I popped one open about 6 months after bottling. Musty, musty, musty! It tasted PHENOMINAL going into the bottle!! Sanitized everything w/ StarSan & used...

Thanks for all the info. Ended up using 6lbs of Briess malt along with my 2.5 lbs PM grains and I don't know what my efficiency turned out to be, but I wound up w/ a OG of 1.063. I liked the price of the Briess compared to the Muntons, so pending that I like the flavor of the final product, I'll...

Just a quick question about different brands of DME....specifecly, M&F and Briess. My LHBS tells me there is a difference between the two. They say M&F has more fermentable sugars than Briess. Is this correct? If so, How much? I would think 3 lbs of DME should equal 3 lbs of DME. I have a choice...

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I made my pseudo AB clone a few weeks ago, all Chinook (6 oz!), and it tasted wonderful racking into the secondary. I basically took someone's AB clone recipe found here and hopped it up w/ more Chinook. Recipe as follows: Hoppy Bastard 2 lbs Pale Malt (2-row US) .5 lb Special-B 147L...

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