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Imperial Stout This is made with pretty much everything I have on hand. I don't really want to order anything else. Tell me why I shouldn't brew this. 3 gallon batch OG: 1.090 FG: 1.023 IBU: 81 ABV: 8.6% SRM: 33 Grains 8# two-row .2# roasted barley .2# Crystal 40L .2# Crystal...

Looking for your thoughts on an oatmeal brown ale. I know this won't be close to Surly Bender, but that beer inspired me. What do you think? 3 gallon batch OG: 1.053 IBU: 32 SRM: 17 4# two row .5# munich .3# Crystal 40 .1#Crystal 60 .2# Chocolate malt .4# Rolled oats .3 oz...

Here's what seems like a convoluted question. My last few beers have attenuated more than I had in mind. I have heard that a smaller grist ratio, like 1.25 pounds per quart, give more body and less of a dry beer. When I lowered my grist ratio, I seem to have a harder time maintaining mash...

I'm trying to use what I have on hand to make a decent best bitter. I want a good beer, but I'm not overly concerned about keeping true to style. I want to save my fuggles or EKG for flavor/aroma, so I'm bittering with Magnum. I don't have Marris Otter, so I'm hoping Munich and Vienna will at...

So a friend of mine stumbled on an old recipe in his grandmother's recipe book. It's for bootleg beer from the 1920s. He'd like to try to make it. Here's what the recipe says: 1 can of Blatz malt 1 compressed yeast 1 cup sugar 5 gal. water Warm 1 gal. water and dissolve malt. Stir into...

I'm looking for some more experience brewers to critique my pale ale. I make 3-gallon, brew-in-the-bag batches. 6# two row .25# Crystal 40 .25# Munich .33oz. centennial 60 min .33oz. centennial 30 min .33oz. centennial 1 min Nottingham yeast. OG ~ 1.055 IBU~40 I know...

So I pitched a barley wine onto a US-05 yeast cake. It was only a 2-gallon batch, and the cake was from a 3-gallon batch of an American amber. The airlock pretty much stopped after 72 hours. I took a hydrometer reading, and the 1.096 OG barley wine is down to 1.018. Should I be concerned with...

I'm looking for a critique on my barleywine recipe. 2 gallon batch OG: 1.105 FG: 1.026 ABV: 10.2 IBU: 104 6.5 lbs Pale two row .5 lbs Crystal 60L .5 lbs Cane sugar .7 oz. Columbus (60 min) .8 oz. Cascade (25 min) 1 oz. Cascade (Dry hop) Mash for 90 minutes at 150. Pitching onto US-05 yeast...

I'm just looking for an ESB critique. I haven't used fuggles in a long time and want to try them again. Batch size: 3 gallons OG: 1.058 IBU: 48 SRM: 12 5.5 lbs Maris Otter .3 lbs Vienna .3 lbs Aromatic .3 lbs Biscuit 1 oz. Black patent (for color) 1.2 oz. fuggles (60 min.) .5...

I'm looking for someone to critique my first pale ale recipe. It's a 3 gallon batch. 5 lbs 2-row .5 lbs Munich .5 lbs Crystal 60L .3 lbs CaraPils .3 oz Chinook (60 minutes) .2 oz Chinook (30 minutes) .2 oz Amarillo (30 minutes) .3 oz Amarillo (5 minutes) Estimated OG: 1.057 Estimated FG...

So my local home brew supply shop didn't have the fuggles my recipe called for. The guy replaced them with sterling. I know they were out of willamette. Does this seem reasonable? Here's the hop schedule. 17g Horizon 13%AA @60 14g Fuggle 4.75%AA @30 14g Cascade 5.75%AA @30 14g Cascade...

So I made a bourbon stout in a 5 gallon bucket that I got from the Publix deli. It still smelled like pickles, but I didn't think it was too bad. I might have been wrong. I recently racked to secondary, and everything smelled and tasted like pickles. I plan on aging this in bottles a while (at...