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So My buddies and I brewed the AHS Gulden Draak Clone last spring. It was an extract batch with steeping grains. The OG was 1.112. We brewed it on 3/20/11, we pitched Wyeast 1214 Belgian Abbey Ale yeast, and by 4/22/11 the gravity was at 1.030 and was still at 1.030 on 4/29/11. This was a...

Ya brought out my inner grammar nazi. Mute means unable to speak Moot means irrelevant Just been seeing it on here a bunch recently and we are better than that people, come on! rant over :mug:

Just wanted to apologize for being post happy. my names Doug and I'm a postaholic.:o This forum is so great, such a wealth of knowledge, so many experienced brewers willing to share their expertise, and so many individuals who are really passionate about brewing.:) As a new brewer the...

My friends and I made a strawberry melomel on Friday. We have no idea what we were doing so we "wing-ed" it based of a batch of simple mead we made last spring. Mistake 1, the recipe last spring did not have any SG readings taken and we used 5# honey/gallon. We did that again. We used 24#...

The clamps that is. Yes? No?

Silly noob question, and I apologize if it's been asked before but I didn't find much using the forum search. I ferment my beer in pails, so instead of taking a sample with a thief from my fermentor, I have just been putting the sterilized hydrometer in it to take my gravity readings. Is...

So my friend got me a $50 gift card to a LHBS. I have been doing extracts on my stove. I cook in a 2 gallon stock pot, I have two fermenters and a 3 gal BB. I have basic equipment like an autosiphon, a thief, hydrometers and an instant read dial thermometer, funnels and airlocks. What should...

Brewing up my first batch of Edwort's Haus Pale Ale from the extract recipe. I found all the ingredients at my LHBS with the exception that the dried whole leaf Cascade hops he had were 8% alpha. I followed the recipe, and got the wort down to 84*F within 5 min., but had to wait overnight for...

Any fellow Mainiacs around here? Do you guys now of any homebrew clubs in the Southern Maine or Portland area?

I asked this in the recipes forum and didn't get many responses, thought I'd try here. Is there a target OG for Edwort's Apfelwein? I have seen quite a range, seeing numbers from 1.071-1.060, and have heard of people reporting upto 1.090. With the variation of sugars available in commercial...

I tried this post in another forum and didn't get much feedback, although someone did give me some good tips on techique, always helpful.:mug: Thought I'd try my luck here. Grabbed a TrueBrew Hefeweisen kit recently, and since I'm always trying to make life more complicated I decided to try...

Does any one have an extract recipe they feel strongly enough about to recommend? I'm thinking about whats next and I'm not to concerned about having everything set out in a kit, I can't help fooling with them a little anyway. What's a few more pounds of DME gonna hurt? ;) I saw the...

Can anyone tell me the target OG for Edwort's Apfelwein? Thanks

I made (my first) 3 gallons of mead in May. I waited until it had (mostly) cleared to rack to a secondary. Last week I was brewing with a friend of mine here in the basement, and I started getting antsy thinking about what to brew next. Having no money for more materials right now I decided to...

So I tried a Hefeweisen kit recently, and since I'm always trying to make life more complicated I decided to try to up the abv on the finished product by throwing in some more DME. what I brewed looked like this: 6.6# Muntons Wheat LME 1# Muntons Wheat DME 1# Muntons Extra Light DME 2 oz...