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Agreed.....1 lb of Crystal 40L in my amber tastes perfect, if not a little too sweet.

I made one last summer - VERY simple. 6 lbs wheat DME 1 oz hallertauer at 60 min. 1 oz hallertauer at 20 min. 1 lb honey in last 5 min of boil. Hefeweizen Yeast Careful - it WILL blow the top off of your fermenter!!! get a blow-off tube....

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the extracts already part wheat and part pale? I know that was the case for my honey wheat last summer. If it's the same with the liquid, I would just use all "wheat" extract. And I would also cut down the second hop addition.....

+1 on the sweet/fruit/banana-ness of the Windsor. Just used it for a stout. It came out well, but definitely has some complex flavors, which I now attribute to the yeast. There is probably also some contribution from the 2 oz vanilla extract I added, too. We will see how this one mellows...

No, but I think they are moving to weekly tours on Saturday afternoons. I echo the recommendation - I have been twice. The first time we got to drink the barleywine straight out of the conditioning vessels!!

Anyone tried a clone recipe for this barleywine? Had it for the first time on Sunday, and enjoyed it immensely. Thanks!

The number refers to Lovibond, which is the scale of color it will give to the wort. A Crystal 20L will give a much lighter color than a crystal 60L, which will be lighter than 90L. There are corresponding flavor differences, but someone older and wiser than I will have too explain those.....

forget the plate - that is an awesome Fridge/Taproom!!!! so jealous I am....

People, people! RDWHAHB, for pete's sake....

In my very humble and noob opinion, I think maybe the hefe yeast will compete with the tea. I would either rein in the fermentation temps (65-68) or use a less estery strain, like the American or the Bavarian Wyeast ones.

i used oak chips in my Dogfish Head Midas Touch clone..... 2 oz sterilized in boiling water, then tossed into secondary with beer for 2 weeks. The bottles are young, but the oak came through very well - I am hoping a few months of aging will even it out .

OK, let's see how this does as a "critique this recipe" thread.... Partial Mash: 4 lbs. DME 2 lbs. 2-row 1 lb. Crystal 40L 8 oz Biscuit 8 oz Cara-pils Mash grains at 154 degrees for 60 minutes. 1 oz Chinook at 60 min. 1 oz EKG/Whatever I can find that's close at 30 min 1 oz EKG...

Yeah, my specialty grains profile for my stout that is in the bottles now looked like this: 8 oz roasted barley 8 oz black patent 8 oz Chocolate 8 oz Crystal 60L (I just like nice clean ratios, I guess) First taste from the hydro sample was pretty rough, roasty, and bitter, and I was...

http://byo.com/feature/1536.html This is what I tried last time I brewed......I think it is the simplest PM technique by far...

Anyone got a stellar partial mash American Amber recipe? I'm looking for a nice, toasty malt flavor (some biscuit malt maybe?) but with a strong bitterness profile - like a Rogue American Amber, or Troegs Hopback Amber..... Thanks for your help!

***shameless bump*** So should I use malted wheat, malted rye? Are those even available? And should I tweak my proportions? Anyone tried anything like this? Thanks

As we weather this current "hop recession," we should definitely come up with some useful acronyms to describe our situations. A few suggestions: GHS = Good Hop Substitute ISTW = I'm Switching to Wheats ISTB = I'm Switching to Belgians MHR = Minimal Hop Recipe hmmm, any others...

Hey all.....the next recipe I want to try is something like this: I want to use a lot of "alternative" starches (is that the correct blanket term?) Since I am a new partial/countertop masher, I can handle 4 lbs of grain. I was hoping to do something like: 1 lb Wheat 1 lb Rye 1 lb Oats...

I am interested in an all late-hopped beer as well, but I think those experiments will be saved for a better climate, i.e., when hops become available in reasonable quantities to us lowly minions again....

Got it, thanks! And generally, saving beer this long would be an impossibility. The only way I can keep from drinking this is the fact that it is a gift for the groomsmen in my wedding....