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I have seen a few recipes for oatmeal raisin cookie brown ales, and wanted to try brewing one. My brother and I will be trying this out Saturday, any tips would be helpful. Est OG: 1.055 Est FG: 1.017 Est ABV: 5% Est IBU: 18.2 8lbs Maris otter 1lb Flacked Oats 1/2 toasted 1/2 lb of Special B...

I starting a pretty big mead, 24 lbs of honey for 5.5 gal of mead with a final gravity of 1.02. So I am trying to get it to about 18% abv using k1-v1116. I started a small yeast starter with 10g of yeast. I just realized I don't have any DAP, I only have fermaid K and Fermaid O on hand. I...

6 gal batch 16 lbs of honey (not sure what varietal) 8 lbs of buckwheat Cocoa nibs coffee (or maybe cherries) vanilla Med + Hungarian oak EC 1118 I was looking for some opinions on what type of honey I should use for the 16 lbs, if ec 1118 is the best yeast for this, and the...

I have not brewed beer in a few years, but brewed about 15 batches with extracts, and want to get in to brewing again and am thinking about all grain. I will most likely be brewing mostly stouts, and am looking for a basic set up. I am thinking of buying a cooler mash tun, and a 15 gal...

I have fortified fig mead going and am going to oak it soon. 6 lbs meadowfoam honey 6 lbs buckwheat honey 6 lbs dried organic mission figs(chopped) 2 lbs dried organic Turkish apricots Put the 3 lbs of each honey into fermentation bucket add water to 3 gallons. I mixed until all honey...

Lol Im at a local art/craft fair and there is a local honey stand and I decide to buy 1 lb of a dark wildflower and 1 lb of blueberry. I paid $30. I was excited to see a local honey I did not pay attention.

I will be making mead with meadofoam honey and with carrotblossom honey. I have 7 lbs of each. I plan on making a total volume of 2 gal with each type. I want about 14% abv so i will use use enough honey to get an og of ~1.11. I will save the rest of the honey to back sweeten. I am looking to...

I am thinking about making a traditional mead and wondering about honey suggestions that do well on their own. I was reading about carrot blossom honey and was thinking about seeing if I could find some. Has anyone used it before to make a mead? If not what is your favorite honey to use for a...

What do you use for your primary fermentation vessel? Do you use an open top bucket, or a air locked bucket or carboy?

4 gal apple juice 1 gal honey Vanilla beans Cinnamon Dark brown sugar Yeast Yeast nutrients I was going to ferment the honey and apple juice dry. When fermentation is complete I was going to backsweeten with brown sugar to taste. I then plan on letting it sit on vanilla beans in a carboy to...

I want to brew both of these but am not sure which I want to brew first. Any suggestions? I have a dandielion wine in the secondary right now. Will the yeast from the dandielion wine work well for the skeeter pee? Should I brew the apfelwein first? Would that yeast work better?

I added White Labs Sweet Mead yeast to my dandielion wine about 24 hours ago. The wi.e was close to 70 degrees when I added it. I had removed the yeast about 3 hours before I added it. The O.G was 1.10. I have still not seen any bubbles in my air lock. Is this normal? Should i take the SG...

I am thinking of trying one of the 3 beers from this collection, has anyone tried them. Were they good? Which one should I try first?

I brewed a Imperial Chocolate Coffee Stout 2 weeks ago, it was a kit I bought from a website. I did not make a starter, I didn't know what one was until i joined this site and the instructions did not say anything about one. The og was 1.09-1.095, I wrote it down some where but i cant find it...

I currently am aging a chocolate coffee stout and am thinking about what I want to brew next. I am looking for something different and fun to brew. I want to brew something not so common but it will only be my 6th brew I think and the stout was my first partial mash So nothing supper difficult...

I am looking to take the next step and buy some more equipment. I am going to do mainly partial mash brews. What I have right now for equipment is; 6 gal carboy 7.5 gal fermentation bucket 20qt stainless stell pot Floating thermometer Auto siphon Corona grain mill I am just wondering...

I have an Rodi filter from my aquarium. Should I use it to make water for beer? It would be pure water then I could add anything I needed back in. Would this be more work then it is worth.

I am brewing a imperial chocolate coffee stout and an optional ingredient is 1oz french oak chips for the last week of the secondary fermentation. What will this do for the beer? Would you use it? If it helps the other ingredients are: 5 lbs light dried malt etract 3 lbs wheat dried malt...