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Thanks for the responses everybody. I'll be sure to report back on how my beer is tasting (in about a year)!

Hey everyone- I recently posted about my first attempt at making a beer with some brett and other bugs added (via dregs of some commercial bottles). I did a primary fermentation with a saccharomyces strain and then transferred to a secondary carboy and pitched the bugs. After sitting in the...

Alright- so I brewed the beer described in my original post back on June 19. Great brew day, everything went well... hit my O.G. perfectly. I pitched a big healthy starter of Wyeast 3522. On June 29 I transferred to a 6 gallon carboy. The S.G. was down to 1.011. The beer tasted great-...

I considered this... because I've read that you get more funk when you pitch everything at once. But I think I want to do a primary with saccharomyces because that is how the process is described for Supplication. Also, I'm not a huge fan of the intensely sour beers... I really like brett-y...

So I've been brewing for over two years now and have attempted a wide variety of styles. My wife loves sours and I occasionally enjoy them as well, so I figured it is time. My favorites include Russian River Supplication and just about anything by Jolly Pumpkin. I have done a little reading...

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Wanting to make a coffee stout soon... leaning towards the hot steep method...

I am very interested in the Orval process as well. I recently had a couple bottles that were bottled less than a month ago and they were frickin' amazing. But as expected, the brett presence was pretty subdued. In Brew Like a Monk, it says that Orval does a primary fermentation with no...

Hey everyone- A couple weeks ago I kegged my first batch of beer after bottling for a long time. I have my keg in a kegerator, but I'm not running the beer out through a draft tower or anything like that. It is just being dispensed through the beer line out through a plastic faucet. It is...

Welcome to HBT! This looks like quite a beer to tackle while being still new to homebrewing! Let us know how it turns out. My only comments... The hop bill looks pretty awesome. Almost Pliny-like (according to the recipes I've seen). For the grains- I might replace the maris otter with...

Looks good to me. I would use the Cascade for bittering and save the Saaz for a late addition- just because you'd have to add a whole lot of hops with alpha acids in the 3% range to get up to 25 to 28 IBUs. It should be a tasty brew- as you mention, not really a traditional blonde ale. Call...

Just had my first bottle of Plead the 5th last week. I liked it a lot. Waaaay better than Bells Expedition Stout in my opinion (if you wanna compare Michigan-brewed Russian Imperial Stouts)...

I use a big strainer. I just take the kettle and dump everything through a sanitized strainer into a plastic bucket. If it is a really hoppy beer, then I may need some help from my wife to scrape away hops as I pour the wort. I am considering switching to the whirlpool and siphon method...

I don't have experience with the Burton Ale yeast... but notice that it does say SUBTLE fruity flavors. The English ale yeasts I have used have been more estery than American varieties- although they can become very clean if fermenting at lower temps. BUT- these same English ale yeasts are...

Sierra Nevada Founders Jolly Pumpkin Metropolitan Russian River- assuming I could have regular access :)

Have you considered brew in a bag (BIAB)? I use it for all grain batches in my apartment and have been very happy with my results. And it just happens to be on HBT where I first learned how to do it... Easy stove top all grain Just one option... I've come to believe that how you get...

As an addendum to this, my wife (how long does it take to get used to saying that??) and I are leaving on our honeymoon on Thursday. We're flying to SF, renting a car and driving up the coast. We'll do a few days along the coast in northern Cal, a few days in Portland, a few days in Seattle...

Time for an update! I have been busy and didn't have time to update on my brewing progress as the wedding came up... but this past Saturday was finally the big day! Everything went awesome and people had very positive things to say about all the beer. In addition to lots of hard stuff and...

I got my O2 wand from Williams a couple months back. I had brewed many, many batches without oxygenating my wort. I had just been running my wort through a strainer and then doing some splashing in the bucket. I've now done seven batches with the oxygen and I can honestly say that my beer...

I don't think half an ounce of Magnum at 30 minutes will add much flavor or aroma. It will add quite a bit of bitterness at that point, especially since Magnum is high alpha. However, Magnum is generally thought of as one of the cleanest tasting bittering hop and imparts very little hoppy...