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I've made this recipe on a smaller 3 gallon scale and it was my BEST ever, but I'm not sure of its classification. I could ramp it up for a definite Barley Wine or leave it where it is and just call it a dark Imperial IPA. What do you all think? (I have the yeast starter ready to go...

At what age is one allowed to know about the glorious fruits of homebrewing? My wife's 19 year old half-brother was at my house last weekend and was VERY curious about the whole brewing process. So I showed him my equipment and told him just what I do with it. He's a pretty smart kid who's...

So I brewed the following beer three months ago: BYO - Old Rasputin Clone Type: Extract Batch Size: 5.00 gal 3 lbs 12.0 oz Light Dry Extract (8.0 SRM) Dry Extract 27.6 % 6 lbs 9.6 oz Pale Liquid Extract (8.0 SRM) Extract 48.5 % 1 lbs Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain...

I am planning to brew tomorrow, but...... My recipe calls for 8oz brown malt and I forgot to order it. It's an extract so it will only be steeped. So I was wondering if I can substitute 8oz of chocolate malt? Will this work or be a bit of an overload of chocolate malt?

If I have a LARGE (WYeast CA 001) yeast cake from a 3 gallon IPA that I brewed 2weeks ago, will it still be viable for a Russian Imperial? OR Should I make a starter batch with it and grow it a bit more? (It has been sitting in the fridge in a clean container during these past two weeks.)

What DO ya think???? (It was a BYO Clone) Type: Extract Batch Size: 5.00 gal 3 lbs 12.0 oz Light Dry Extract (8.0 SRM) Dry Extract 27.6 % 6 lbs 9.6 oz Pale Liquid Extract (8.0 SRM) Extract 48.5 % 1 lbs Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 7.4 % 1 lbs Caramel/Crystal...

Can ya all help a brother out for the coming winter? I either need a good extract recipe or a good home brew kit.

I'm weeding out some leftover ingredients before I go and buy stout supplies. How does this recipe look? I'm pretty the only one who drinks anything but "yellow fizzy beer", but I'm working on my converts. (This would be for a 2.5 Gallon Batch.) 3 lbs Light Dry Extract (8.0 SRM) Dry...

Now, I am a self admitted hophead. I know that there are special 10 Step Programs that I can attend to address this problem, but I WON'T go there. So, last night I had one of my Stone Brewery's 10th Anniversary Ales from last year, and it was beyond awesome. I would love to try and clone it...

I'm fermenting in an old Igloo Cube (I remade a new lid). Yet I'm not sure what temperature to keep the water. It's at about 62 right now. I know that the temperature of the future beer can be fermenting 8-10 degrees above the actual water soooooooooooo... Does this mean that 62 degree...

SWMBO was getting her hair done today so I got a brew day yesterday in order to watch the 3 week old. Fair trade off!!!

I need to be able to post some of my pix when I discuss just what I am doing. How do I resize them????

So I'm braving the world of yeast starters. I'm using some washed WLP001 (Ca Ale). I wanted to make sure that I had enough beasties for my brown. One Question: How long should this take before I can pitch it? (I'd like to brew tomorrow if possible.) (Tried to add a picture, but...

I have a bunch of leftover ingredients and I'm looking to make a brown session ale of some sort. Just wondering how this looked: 3lbs LME 2lbs DME 1lb Crystal Malt 40 8oz Carapils 5oz Chocolate Malt 1.5oz Chinook 12.2 @ 60 minutes 2oz Williamette 4.5 @ 10 minutes Whirlflock Tablet @...

Now that my wife is about to give birth to our son I made a needed, yet sad deal. (Almost a deal with the devil.) I agreed to sell my motorcycle. It was a beautiful grey and white 2005 Honda VT7500 totally sotck. Garage kept with very low mileage. :( She is due to be induced tomorrow and...

BevMo ships beer in California and Brown did me right by bringing my case of Epic Ale yesterday!!!! It's Stone's version of a Belgium on CRACK. They have combined the Saison and Golden Tripel styles very tastily - had one last night. So smooth - sooooooo mildly spicey - a bit hoppy too...

So I invited my family to my parent's house last night for dinner. (Wife's about to birth our son and we had to get out of the house and do something.) As usual, I bring a few new hombrew's to share with my sister and my dad. I thought that maybe we'd drink one or two of the 22's...

How do I show what beers I have brewing, conditioning, in secondary etc? AND How do I show what recipes I've tried/invented? (I just got my pix up so I'm ready to get it all going :rockin: )

I have never dry hopped until yesterday. Unfortunately, I didn't weigh the hop bag down. Now the bag o' hops just floats at the top of the carbouy. Will the oils still exit the hops? Shy of trying to get the bag out and dump the hops into the beer, what should I do?