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I'm doing a 10gl batch and would like a nice subtle licorice flavor. I'm not sure if 1 bag (7 drops) would give me that in 10 gallons or if it would be over the top with licorice flavor. If you've used these before, when did you add them to the boil and how was the flavor?

I'm looking for a small trade for Christmas. I can send 6-10 cans of local Gulf States craft beer from breweries in Louisiana to Florida. I'm looking to get this done fairly quickly so beers can arrive before Christmas. I haven't been very active lately, but I've traded occasionally before on...

I'm curious what the modern thinking is on how to add fruit to beers. I have a saison that is at 1.006 and I would like to add cranberry's to it and a pound of honey. I don't make many fruit beers but when I do, I have always racked the beer onto the fruit. This is a method I'm sure we've all...

I'm about to take the next step and add a pump to my system. If I were to pump my strike water into my my Coleman cooler type mash tun through the ball valve and bazooka tube with the grains already in there, would this cause serious clumping? In my mind I'm picturing a very steady rise in the...

My O2 regulator seems to have developed a leak in the past six months. When I first got it, last April, It worked great. I was getting 4-5 batches per bottle of BenzOmatic O2 (45-60 seconds each), and I was ok with that. Now i'm only getting 1 batch and when I come back to it the tank is dead...

I picked up a 5 gallon barrell from Balcones distillery recently when they were up for sale, i'm hoping some others have as well and can give me some advice. I've had a WootStout clone (which turned out delicious) in it for 2 weeks and I just tried a sample. There is little in the way of oak...

I've brewed an Irish Red three times in the last two years and everytime that deep red color is missing. I've searched and researched (pun alert!), read articles in BYO, Zymurgy, and the forums. I've tweaked my recipe three times now, and still that deep red color is missing. Here's my most...

I recently received an e-mail from a reputable brewing supply store for a IIPA kit that sounded pretty tasty. I'm sure most of us received the same e-mail, but I don't want to name any names since this seems to be a growing theme among supply stores. When I opened the web page I was pretty...

I did some research and a few people reported good results getting a nice red color using around 7-8% Carared in their beers. I was clearing my end of year left over grains so I brewed a lager using 8.6% Carared, 60% pale malt, 12% flaked rye, 18% flaked rice, and 1.4% acid malt. I was really...

Hello everyone. I have a 750ml bottle of Cigar City Big Sound, bourbon barrel aged Scotch ale. This is a very limited release and you would be hard pressed to find it anywhere right now. This beer scores a 97 on BA and 99 on Rate Beer and is absolutely incredible in it's complexity. I'm...

Just in time for Halloween! I'm looking to trade 2 bombers, 1 each Pumking and Warlock. I realize ST has pretty wide distribution these days but maybe someone missed the August release. I'm looking for your local imperial stouts or imperial pumpkin/holiday ales. Check out seekabrew.com to...

I brewed a big RIS last week and used the third runnings for a small brown ale. The original gravity on the small beer was 1.037 and it's down to 1.010 today, however it tastes like water ran through used coffee grounds; if you've ever done that by accident you know what I mean. It's not a...

I'm formulating a RIS and am looking at clone recipes of some of the great stout examples such as Old Rasputin, ST Oat, and KBS for inspiration. All the clones have one thing in common, they use Wyeast 1056 or White Labs WLP 001. I understand the desire to have a neutral yeast that will allow...

My LHBS is having a Light Hybrid (cat 6) competition in a couple months and I was thinking about entering SD-Slims Lemon-Lime Hefeweizen which I am fermenting with Wyeast 1010 American Wheat yeast. The recipe calls for lime zest in the boil and a 1.75l bottle of Limeade added after vigorous...

The 60 vs. 90 minute boil has been debated probably ever since wort was first boiled. I know there are a number of threads on here and all over the internet debating this very topic, but they all lack mostly one thing: first hand personal experiences. Their are a few good reasons for a 90...

I'm trying to put together an easy recipe that is big on mango/tropical flavor with a jalapeno kick. I would like to avoid grapefruit flavor. I'm weighing doing a secondary with mango puree versus using hops to achieve those tropical notes. Here is what I have so far going the hop route but...

I recently did a 10gal batch of Biermunchers world famous cream of three crops. I used US-05 yeast, re-hydrated and had active fermentation 12-16 hours later. I fermented at 62-64f for 14 days then cold crashed to 33f for 1 week. I then racked to secondary with gelatin and let it sit for...

A friend of mine from work got into brewing Mr. Beer kits about the same time I went all grain about 2 years ago. Well 8 months ago or so I started talking to him about how easy extract brewing can be and to showed him how to get away from those expensive kits. After all he was already doing...

I've been using a CPVC manifold I built for a little over a year now and it's been working great until recently. It's become very loose at the joints when assembled to the point that pouring my mash water on top of it in the cooler will knock it apart. Has anybody else experienced this, and...

I brewed an Oktoberfest lager and ended up with a diacetyl bomb. I was originally going to dump the keg but being inherently lazy I didn't get around to it until today, 3 months and a day since I brewed it and probably two months since I tasted it. It's been hanging out in my kegerator at ~44F...