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This is my first stab at a black ipa/pale ale. My aim is to get a hoppy beer, with some nice caramelly notes and the black currant/chocolate flavor of darker malts. OG: 1.065 FG: 1.012 ABV: 7,2 IBU: 60 EBC: 57 Malts: 5 kg Maris Otter, EBC 6 1 kg Muncih, EBC 17 370 g Carafa special...

I've always used leaf hops. I've never even tried using pellets, and never seen anyone try them. Because it is quite difficult to obtain high quality US hops in Finland I have decided to try pellets. There is more variation available and because pellets have better storage properties, they are...

I've built a copper manifold and I'm wondering whether I should weld the pieces together. Will this make cleaning the manifold from the inside next to impossible? Are there any good techniques to clean a manifold? I always just break my own to pieces and then clean it with running water, but if...

I brewed an APA last weekend and I was wondering how much cascade I should dry hop it with. Here's the recepie: Batch size: 20 liters OG:1.056 IBU: 46 Color:18 FG: 1.012? Frementables: 4 kg pale malt (73%) 1 kg vienna (18%) 250g crystal 20 (5%) 250 g cara-munich (5%) Hops: 20 g...

I'm going to brew a dubbel on the next Saturday with some friend. This will be our first attempt at the style so we are not really sure what ingredients and in what quantities we want to use. Here is our first try. Feel free to critique it. OG: 1.062 FG: 1.015 ABV: 6.2 IBU: 27 Color: 47...

We will be brewing our first ESB in a couple of weeks. We want the beer to have a decent hop punch, mainly on the bitter side, with some sweet caramel/maltyness to smooth things up. The color should be copper, or near Fuller's london esb. Around 5% of alcohol would be nice. Here is what we...

I will probably do a kitchen sink beer in a few weeks since I will transfer my IPA to secondary and I want to put the yeast cake to good use. The problem is that I have no idea what kind of beer I could brew with the ingredients that I have in my closet. I want to keep the beer quite simple...

This will be my 4th IPA. All in all I've been quite satisfied with my IPAs, but I have always missed the amazing head that some american IPAs have. I want that creamy, thick slightly beige head! I'll be brewing this beer with a couple of friends who have never brewed before. I'm supposed to...

I'm planing to do a saison that I will "dry hop" with bog myrtle. I love the smell of bog myrtle, but I'm worried about the tannins that it contains, and that is why I don't want to boil it. The other reason for just dry hopping is that I want to throw it into the beer the same day that I pick...

Here is my first attemp at a barleywine. The name derives of a philosophical paradox, which seems apropriate for a barleywine. Grain bill: 7 lbs pale malt, SRM 3 4 lbs pale liquid extract, SRM 10 2,2 lbs munich malt, SRM, 9 1,1 lbs wheat malt, SRM 2 1,1 lbs light dry extract, SRM 8 0,4...

I do not have any equipment to control the fermentation temperature so I ferment in room temperature which is around 68-71 F. That is quite high, but since I pitch a bit cooler I haven't noticed any nasty side effects. And I bottle condition for at least 3 weeks. Five days ago I brewed a...

This will be my first belgian beer ever and I will brew this on Sunday. I've made seven batches of other beers before this, all of them being on the hoppy side. This time I would want the yeast to give more flavor. I'm using belgian trappist yeast (3787). So my problem is, how much hops should...