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This will kick your ass with flavor, and it's so easy to make! Also, it's a good excuse to make Two Rooks' Sweet Blackbird Stout. Two Rooks' Irish roast beef with stout au jus 3 pound beef roast--this gets very tender, so we use an inexpensive cut Bacon fat One bottle of sweet stout (or one...

Two Rooks' Sweet Blackbird Stout Style: Sweet Stout Batch Size: 5.00 gal Ingredients 5 lbs Light Dry Extract (8.0 SRM) 48.78 % 2 lbs Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) 19.51 % 1 lbs Barley, Flaked (1.7 SRM) 9.76 % 12.0 oz Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM) 7.32 % 8.0 oz Chocolate Malt (450.0 SRM) 4.88 % 1 lbs...

Two Rooks' Spent Grain Bread (for 1.5 pound loaf) 1 c room temperature water (be sure to adjust the amount as necessary, depending on how wet your spent grains are) 4 tbsp buckwheat honey 2 tbsp butter, softened 1 tsp salt 1 1/2 c spent grains (still warm) 1 c wheat flour 2 1/2 c bread...

I thought I would share how brilliant a designer my husband is (not to mention that he's a great brewer, too!). :) Here is the logo he designed for our brewery: I can hardly wait to see it on labels. :rockin:

Best enjoyed on the porch swing on a sunny, mild spring day. YUM.

We just got a Victoria grain mill, and it looks good; we're looking forward to using it for the first time in a couple of weeks. However, the mill seems to have a thin but noticeable-to-the-touch coating on the metal, slightly oily. While I haven't tasted it, my sense is that it wouldn't bee...

Just sharing an experience with WLP037 yeast: We recently had a stuck fermentation with WLP037 in a Sammy Smith Oatmeal Stout clone. Pitched at the correct temperature, although I wonder a little about the correct rate. We made a starter, but the stir plate kept throwing its bar, so I'm not...

The plan was to bottle our stout and brew a porter to throw on the cake. However, as it turned out, the stout was not ready for bottling. (We've roused the yeast and moved it to a warmer spot, so hopefully it will get going again.) So... instead of brewing the porter, we've thrown together an...

Advice? We just got our new Stirplate delivered this past week--a very small one. We have the proper stir bar, and when it was delivered, naturally, we took it out and set it up with water to ooh and aah over the cool vortex. Today I set it up with a starter for the first time. I found it...

Hello! We've been brewing for a few years, but not regularly. However, this past year, we were inspired to get some additional equipment, and it seems to have inspired us to brew more often. (It helps that brewing is a bit easier with the new equipment!) Right now we have a bare few IPAs...