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Feel like I lucked out on the Yeast, the place near my house has some in stock so jumping on it. Everyone I talked to raved about it. Going to scale back some on the hops at the end

With veterans day and all I was talking to a friend about making a beer for our little reunion in January. We were in the 101st, and I was wanting to make a Nut Brown Ale because: a) I like Brown ales. b) Gen McAuliffe of the 101st is famous for during the Battle of the Bulge responding to a...

Ah thanks. Never used liquid yeast before (smack pack), and was surprised how it took off like a rocket. Before always used dry yeast and extract, tended to have slower start up and kind of a long slow fermentation. Just wanted to confirm things were ok. On a side note, I took about a shot...

Oh, also had about a 1/2 lb of amber belgian candi sugar. The final abv should be around 5.5

So I'm doing an all grain brown ale, using 2 maris otter, C120, Brown malt, pale chocolate, flaked corn, willamette hops, and wyeast 1056. Have encountered several problems I've not had to deal with before: There a lot of particles got in the wort. Some of the grains milled pretty fine and a...

About a year ago I started brewing with extracts as a hobby. Found it a bit like baking a cake from one of those betty crocker mixes, so I just started doing all grain. Have my first Brown ale in the fermenter right now. Find I come to this forum to look up advice and tips a lot, so I figured I...