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The style is Dusseldorf Altbier. I'm going for something authentic here, but I am not doing a decoction, and I'm using Hood instead of Spalt because I have it on hand and it is VERY similar to the noble hops. General impressions/thoughts? Should I ferment the starter at 60 F, or should...

I have noticed quite a few recipes out there - both on this site and others - that are labeled as clones, even though the recipes often don't come very close (in many cases nowhere close) to meeting known ingredients or methods used to make the actual beers. I mean, these are beers where the...

I hear a lot of talk on this board about how Guinness employs a sour mash for their beer. I don't really pick up any lacto sourness in it. I made a clone doing the simple 70/20/10 grist and their house ale yeast that had sort of a tartness that I could see as people attributing to a sour mash -...

So I brewed this one with KingBrianI back in March. It was brewed as a 10 gallon batch, but we have scaled it down to 5 gallons, simply by cutting everything in half. We wanted to make a Russian Imperial Stout that was rich and black as all hell using several different roasted malts for layers...

All Grain: 6.5 lb Belgian Pilsner Malt 2 lb White Wheat Malt 6 oz Aromatic Malt 1 lb Fresh local honey (add after hop steep, before chilling) 0.4-0.5 oz Magnum (13.4% AA) @ 90 - adjust to hit about 30 IBU 1oz Hallertauer @ 10 1oz Hallertauer @ 0, steep 15 minutes (see below) Mash @...

These are two that I haven't used yet, but sound very interesting. Now that I can do partial mashes, I can start using these. I have read little quick descriptions of them from various sources, but I wanted to get feed back from people who have actually used them in a recipe. What kind of...

I brewed this with extract, so the extract version is the real thing. The AG conversion should be dead on. Both are included. I used Wyeast 1450 PC - Denny's Favorite 50. This is a summer seasonal strain, originally the discontinued BrewTek CL-50, made famous by Denny Conn. Wyeast suggests 1056...

I have used crystal enough to know what it tastes like, but what exactly is the difference between crystal, caramunich, caraviene, and carahell? Second question - carapils vs carafoam?

So I stopped by the LHBS yesterday after work to grab some stuff for this weekend. I get home and start talking to my girlfriend as I am putting stuff away. Without thinking I throw my Activator smack pack in the freezer instead of the refridgerator. It just hit me this morning when I was in the...

Simple question - About how long can I store whole leaf hops in a freezer without losing freshness?

I just got a new aluminum brewpot. I filled it with regular tap water and boiled for 30 minutes to build the oxide layer. I filled the pot almost to the top and heated on a stove, and to get it up to a nice rolling boil I had to cover the pot while it was heating, and uncovered once it got to a...

I settled on the homebrew starter kit at Midwest Supplies. It comes with Easy Clean no rinse sanitizer (see link below, this is not the Lysol one). Does anyone know anything about this stuff? I was thinking about just getting some Star San instead, but if the Easy Clean works just as well, I...