Recent content by shanlmt

I did the All-grain version, brewed on 2/18/12. I cracked open the first bottle of mine 3 weeks after bottling. OMG! It was so good and the carbonation was already great! I happened to have a bottle of Dragonmead's Final Absolution, and we did a side-by-side comparison. It was sooo close...

My all-grain batch has been in the secondary for 3 weeks. I made this brew without having tasted the original Dragonmeade Final absolution. I made it because there were 32 pages of posts about the recipe, which I considered good enough. A friend from Detroit brought me a 4 pack of the the...

I made this beer back in August. We just drank the last one about a week ago. My family and friends really enjoyed it. It definitely gets better with age. I will probably make it again, but this time around I have decided to make an all-grain belgian trippel, which is in the secondary as we...

envader, I used a 6.5 gallon bucket for my primary and it worked fine. I used a blow off tube inserted in sterilizing fluid. I will be moving mine into a secondary (glass carboy) this weekend, after 2 weeks in the primary.

A little more than a day after brewing and my beer is chugging away at probably 120 bubbles/min. I've never used a blow-off tube before, but I decided to use one this time instead of an airlock , since it's such a high octane brew. It makes me so happy to see those bubbles and know my yeast...

I brewed the all grain version today. First off let me say this is my first all-grain high gravity. I made a few changes: 16lbs pilsner belgian, 1.9 oz munich malt, 8 oz carapils. It was cold outside today and I had an impossible time getting my mash temperature high enough. I started with...

Hurricane, this question is for you. I am going to brew the all-grain version tomorrow. I'm making a 1L starter today. My question is: I have 14lbs of belgian Pilsner, 1lb 9oz of munich and 1/2 lb of carapils. I bought 2lbs of light belgian candy syrup. The recipe calls for 1.6lbs of the...

First Ale I brewed.... July 2011

1st time bottling beer in July of 2011

I'm replying!!!! How exciting!

Ohhhhhh, I think I understand the question I asked about the 12.4 lbs of fermentables. Adding up all the Malt extracts, DME and candi sugar = 12.4 lbs.

I am very interested in making this recipe. The only high gravity beer I've made was a Chimay Blue clone. It turned out great, but I want to try something different. I had a question about the extract version of your recipe. When you say "12.4 total pounds of fermentables", what are the...

I transferred to the secondary after 12 days in the primary. O.G 1.065. F.G before transferring to secondary 1.015. ABV 6.5%. The Hydrometer sample tasted great!!!! I can't wait to get this beer carbonating in some bottles. The only thing I changed in the recipe was I used S-04 yeast with...

So how did this turn out? I have been looking for a thread about successes with Aventinus Dopplebock clones, but can't seem to find much out there.

oops, just realized that 1.064 is pretty much the target O.G.