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BTW, I've just made this in a much simpler way and it has turned out very good I think! Basically did everything the same except mixed in 32oz of Grade B Maple Syrup directly into the primary fermenter along with the wort (I didn't boil it at all, but you could pasteurize it if you wanted)...

While I was pushing in the stopper to cap up a batch of brown ale into my secondary, I accidentally pushed the rubber stopper into the carboy. From a sanitation standpoint, would it be a problem to just leave it in the current carboy, or should I rack to a different one? A couple of data...

FYI, a month after bottling, this beer is -really- good! The maple flavor is not overpowering at all and adds a lot to the finish. It has a great creamy thick head and I would say good head retention with a perfect medium brown color. Medium bodied and sweet with chocolate and an obvious...

A friend recently gave me a flour mill and a few bags of grains and I'm trying to figure out what to do with them all. :) I have a few pounds of "Spelt Berries". This appears to be some sort of wheat. I have a malt-based wheat beer recipe I've been thinking about; can I add these as a...

Grains: 4oz. Chocolate Malt 4oz. Biscuit Malt 8oz. Dark Crystal Malt Fermentables: 3.3# Cooper's Light Malt Syrup 1# Munton's Amber Dry Malt Extract 0.5# Malto-Dextrin 1# Belgian Candi Sugar 37.5 oz. Maple Syrup Hops: 1 oz. Fuggles (60 Mins boiling) 1 oz. Fuggles (1 Mins finishing)...

Thanks! I'll check them out.

Is there some place for homebrewers to buy custom bottle caps like the big boys use? I'm thinking something that has a custom graphical design on it, etc. Any ideas?

So does this just mean I need to let it set in the secondary longer than normal? Should I rack again or can I just go straight to bottles from the secondary? Thanks!

When I racked my first brew, a maple brown ale, to the secondary on Sunday morning, I added in a mixture of about 37 ounces of maple syrup (that had been boiled with 2 cups of water). I think I may have inadvertently aerated the wort when I added the mixture; I just poured it right into the...

My little homemade wort chiller. I had about 50' of 3/8 tubing and decided to double the surface area (and halve the length) of the copper by splitting it into two coils. Splitter is just a $5 washing machine hose splitter and the joiner is just a $2 garden hose splitter. Got a deal at Home...

Here's my first label attempt for a maple brown ale.

My first label attempt. Made for a maple brown ale. The name was suggested for no particular reason by my young son, who has a game called "Martian Matter".

I have a wheat beer on deck that I am considering combining with some of our blackberry stores in the freezer. I'm wondering what the preferred/best method of sanitizing these are when I put them in the secondary fermenter. They have plenty of seeds and the like, so there is a de-seeding issue...

I'm thinking of mixing in some maple syrup into a brown ale during as I rack to a secondary. I am wondering if it will effect the alcohol content calculations. I'm guessing so, but not sure if it will be noticeable (I plan to add at least a quart of maple syrup). If it turns out that it...

Question: Do you also add any maple syrup as primer? If not, what do you use and how would you describe the intensity of the maple taste? Subtle? Noticeable? Intense? etc. Thanks!

Hehe...thanks Brew Guy!

Okay, well, a couple of folks suggested the flat logo text wasn't doing it for them, so for the gradient lovers I added a color gradient in this version. I think this is going to be the last version of this. :) Sorry for the link again. Guess I need to pony up and get the Premier account if...

I'm trying to settle on a couple of things for my maple brown ale. First, it sounds like one of the best ways to get the most maple flavor would be to prime with some Grade B syrup, but I can't seem to find anywhere with a clear recommendation as to just how much to use for 5 gallons of brown...

Thanks for the positive feedback all! :) Can't wait to see this on a bottle! :)

No, not at all, but we will likely make gifts of various 6-packs and the like. Plus I just thought having labels on my own beer would be fun. :)