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Good to see such a nice, simple grain bill with the candi syrups. I am going to try the D90 in my recipe. Also nice to see you had a decent tasting beer without all of the ramping up of temps. Will try to remember to report back.

I go to my local place but they have a website : www.homebrewing.org I split the cost of this brew with a friend otherwise the herbs can add up quick.

I believe that would be ok to use just the extract. Prob still add it to taste after fermentation I suppose.

Here is my final recipe I brewed. It turned out really good! Probably one of my better "experimental beers" The beer was good at 4 months but was better at 6. There was a bitterness that we attributed to the wintergreen but who knows exactly where it came from. The good thing is it went away. It...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f76/all-grain-sweet-potato-ale-fall-ale-207671/ here is my attempt at a sweet potato beer. Couldn't find pumpkin at the time due to some shortage so swapped out for some sweet potato.

Thanks! I am happy with my brew set up now but over the next 5-8 years I definitely want to make it more compact and "automated".

I read through half the thread. I have one buring question my infantile mind can not figure out: What does the PID do? Does it turn off the element when the mash in temp is hit? Does it turn on the element when the temp gets too low during recirculation?

One more thing: the BEST beer I ever made, like the one that I was going to start a brewery with if I could, I used bottle water for. Sorry can't offer more of the chemistry side of things.

I have been having the same problem too on and off. My last beer was good for about 3-4 months or so and at that point it slowly started turning into a gusher. I came across a couple beers that I had for about 2 years and those gushed immediately but I do have a have a belgian golgen strong ale...

4.8% ABV according to http://www.rooftopbrew.net/abv_calculator.php Adding rum won't change your FG because you didn't add fermentables (i.e.-sugars) you added alcohol, basically water. How much your ABV was bumped up by 16oz of rum I don't know. But if you said your beer is around 5% ABV you'd...

one8tvw- is the above recipe still tasting good. gearing up to do a rootbeer beer here pretty soon and would like to use your recipe as a strong backbone to mine. Thanks!

what is your new recipe? Depending on how much you changed the grain bill (i.e. increased the unfermentables) you may only get to 1.032 anyway. Think about it. The original recipe is 1.086 to 1.023. You went up 9 gravity points for your OG from the original recipe and now you are nine points...

1 tablespoon is fine for my tastebuds but I have seen up to 3 tablespoons and as little as 1 teaspoon. One of those 'take good notes before and after' to dial in your recipe kind of thing. But starting low never hurt anyone.

I always dry hop, to some degree, my american ales. usually pales get .5oz. amber/brown get 1oz. ipa's get 2 or more oz's.

you could always split up the specialty grains. Like use .5 lbs for the whole mash and maybe throw in the other .5lbs towards the end just to get the color out.

Rogue makes a chipotle ale. May want to try it or do some searches for a clone of the beer to get an idea of how much chipotle to use.

Yeah I think a tear down, deep cleaning, with some new gaskets are in order.

My recipe turned out really good! I can taste a touch of smoke at the end of a drink but nothing too oustanding with the smoke flavor. One of the better beers I have made lately. Took time on brew day and throughout the fermentation and even bottled this beer as my kegged beers just haven't been...

It was my impression that the dirty bastard clone is setup to mimic a traditional wee heavy boil down with all of the crystals etc...I may be wrong though. So for the OP I think with the recipe and their planned boil down will increase maltiness to be sure.

I did what corkybstewart posted above and had plenty of smoke flavor I believe from the yeast. And I also boiled 7 gallons down to 5 gallons in the kettle.I think you would be fine without the addition of smoke malt. And the couple articels I have read about wee heavy beg and plead with the...