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So it turns out that the warnings associated with pasteurizing over carbonated bottle is spot on so DON'T DO IT. My bottles were "gushers" before pasteurizing and sure enough one of the first three bottles exploded after placing it in the water. Luckily no one was hurt because it was a fairly...

Late DME additions decrease the overall boil gravity which increases your hop utilization. If you do the whole thing for 60 mins, you will have to assume you will get lower hop utilization and thus you may need to add more hops to compensate

I'm not the expert here, but I think Dark Malt Extract probably contains some crystal and some black malts already in it. So you may want to subtract some or all out of the original recipe if you are going to use it. I'd probably take out all the crystal and maybe a bit of the black...

I brewed this recipe last month and I thought it came out great. The only change I made was that I used White Labs WLP004 Irish Ale yeast instead of Muntons. The beer came out with a very pleasant roast coffee flavor. It was pretty dry which I liked. My only critique would be that although...