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Does anyone know where to get beer bottle foils. Similar to what you find on modelo bottles? Can’t seem to find them anywhere. Only found champagne foils which wouldn’t work.

Late reply. Turned out awesome. I served it at a cookout and got excellent reviews!

Hi All, I'm attempting to clone El Segundo's clear AF IPA and any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is what I know: Hops: Nelson, Citra, Mosaic, and El Dorado. coming in at 63 IBUs and I am at a loss for a hop schedule. Grain: ? 6.9% abv The beer is pretty light in color so I'm...

I think i'll cut this in half and use 1.5oz oak and 6oz. bourbon and taste along the way.

So do you think 3oz is good and just taste as it goes? Would the beer get too oaky if i leave it sit on oak for 10mo or so? or would it mellow out? 12oz of bourbon too much? or taste test it?

I should also mention that i have 3oz of oak cubes soaking in bourbon. Should I add all of this oak?

I just brewed the below recipe and wanted to add some oak cubes and bourbon to secondary. I currently have american medium toast oak cubes soaking in 12oz of Old Forester bourbon. Any experience using oak cubes and adding bourbon? How long to age on the oak? How much bourbon to add? I want...

This is my first time brewing a big stout like this and was using a base recipe. Wasn’t sure how much missing the cpils would affect the end result.

Yep, 5.5 gal batch

I thought the same about the color as well. Off the top of my head I had 1.5lb of roasted barley, 1lb of special b, and .5lb of chocolate. After putting it through brewers friend I saw that I could dial back the darker grains.

Haven’t made this before. I put the numbers in brewers friend and got 38srm. Wanted to keep it in bjcp style guidelines in case i want to enter it into comp. just took a hydrometer reading and looks pretty good.

That's a relief...I was planning on bulk aging this and would hate to not have it turn out right after waiting that long...Thanks for the input!

Picked up a bunch of grain to make 2 different beers and my carapils got missed when I was putting my grain together for an imperial stout. Think this will make much of a difference? below is my recipe: 17lb pale malt .75lb roasted barley .75lb special b .25lb chocolate malt

LOL, I like your style :mug:

I have a competition coming up this weekend and will have a stand set up serving beer. There will be a best design award for best stand set up. Just wanted to get some pointers on making it competition worthy. We will be provided with a 6' table and that's it. I already have a jockey box...