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As remuS mentions, I did use athe Edinburough Scottish Ale Yeast, per the recommendation of the local help. Take it or leave it, but I should also state that I am new to this entire process (3rd batch ever). You gotta start somewhere right?

Thanks for the nudge. I was planning on posting today anyways. :mug: Well, I bottled yesterday. And using the Specific Gravity, it's a 6% alcohol brew. I've been using a droid app to keep track of batches (Zym Tools) and it calculated 1.062 (starting) and 1.016 (ending) to be 6%. I...

terrapinj, I did use 1.35 oz for bittering and .3 oz at flameout... I guess, this will be interesting. I didn't see the 5.4lbs comment (even though I posted a reply on it, all I saw was the 9lb). I used 7lbs of extract in liquid (molasses) form... and 1lb of dry powdered extract. I showed...

Hey Mizoo, I just saw this after my previous post. Using the equation above: 10.5 IBU = (1.35-oz Hops x ?% alpha acid of hop x ~29% utilization)/(5-gallons of wort x 1.34 conversion) so does an alpha acid of 1.8% seem right? low? or high? Most that I've seen on the web are around...

Hey hopdropper, I went to Belgrade Liquor and the gentleman there was a great help. He said that for, basically an amatuer like me without advanced equipment, there was no way that I could follow that recipe to a T. I wouldn't have any way to mash the barley? and extract the malt. So he...

Great! Thanks terrapinj, MizooBrew, and remuS! scq

So I love drinking coldsmoke and am a very, very, very inexperienced homebrewer. I'd like to start a batch this weekend but have some questions I'm hoping you all can help me out with. 1. your comment about the 2-hr boil, if I'm going for a 5-gallon batch, how long should I boil it? 2...