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I've got one of these kits sitting and waiting for a free weekend to brew up. I've been thinking of adding a pound or so of lactose, but am not sure if that would work as well in an Imperial Stout vs. a, for lack of a better term, normal stout. Making a heavy duty milk stout, if you will. I...

As far as temp control is concerned, I wouldn't place it next to a vent, as the temperature will fluctuate an awful lot there. When the AC comes on, the air directly from the vent is colder by quite a bit that the temp you're trying to keep the room/house at. And vice versa when the heat comes...

Not to speak for Duckfoot, because I don't know how long he let the beans sit, but I'll summarize mine. I only let the beans soak with the brew in the secondary for one week (though I had originally planned on two), and the result was more subtle than what I was hoping for. The less...

I got my beans from Costco, a lot better price than beanilla. I cut and scraped two beans in the secondary and planned on letting them sit for two weeks. But, my brother was throwing a big family party and asked if I had any home brew I could bring. I did the math and allowing time for...

Just tested my latest, a smoked vanilla porter, and as it turned out well even with more conditioning time coming, and it's slated to join me at a large Independence Day party, I decided to name and label it. I call it Plasticine Porter, from the Beatles' Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. The...

I was also thinking of a pumpkin spice in the fall. I was considering an amber or maybe a bock style, but the oktoberfest recommendations here sound really good as well. Though what I am considering is a bit of a twist, as my wife recently bought some Starbucks pumpkin spice syrup on ebay so...

I'm in the middle of a batch of porter, that I was planning to add vanilla to, and then got to thinking that chai would also be good with it. I thought about just adding two or three tea bags along with the vanilla going into the secondary, but thought I'd do a search to see if it had been done...

I am also in the middle of making a vanilla porter and wondered how this one turned out. I used the Brewers Best smoked porter partial grain and it’s in the primary right now (5 gallon batch). I plan on using vanilla bean and based on this thread as well as some other research, figure...

Welcome, I'm pretty new here myself. I commute to Indy for work from Yorktown.

Alas no. OK, I'll risk it :o Wheat Ale extract with steeped chocolate malt and orange peel. ABV ended up higher than what I originally labeled Standard IPA. Actually, the "Payle" and western style of this is kind of a shout out to a friend of mine on a gaming forum. Yeah, beer and...

I probably shouldn't display them on here then, huh? :D

Up until recently, I didn't make labels for my home brew. I typically only had one batch at a time, so there wasn't an issue with identifying which was which. But I did come up with a name and a couple of label ideas for a dark wheat and an IPA. My question is, the images I got are actually...

Wow, at first glance, I thought I was going to have to give you all kinds of crap, but then I realized that your "NE" was Nebraska and not New England...Go Colts!! ;) And thanks for the welcome everyone.

Actually, I have not, my early purchases were Wine Art Indy, and lately I've been ordering online from Quality Wine and Ale Supply (out of Elkhart I think). I'll definitely check into the class though.

I've only just started adding grain with the extract kits, but that's what I've done in my last two brews. One was a bock where I steeped a small amount of chocolate malt which I then added to the extract along with light DME. The most recent was a wheat extract with light DME, where I steeped...

Yorktown, just west of Muncie. I work in Indy.

Wow, first registered day and I read the thread I was looking for. The last couple of brews of mine came out a little on the sweet side. Mind you, I really like them as is (and so do the friends and relatives) and they weren't high hop styles to begin with. But I'm planning on an IPA for my...

Hello all. I've been dabbling in homebrewing for a few years now, but with a low enough frequency that I still feel fairly new to it. I've mostly used extracts, but in my last two brews, I did enhance by adding other cracked grains (and some orange peel in the last one) to the recipe and plan...