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Thanks you guys! This is great information!

Hello all, I am planning to brew a basic porter kit but want to add some vanilla taste to. Reading older threads, its seems like using vanilla beans in the secondary seems to to be the best way to add the flavor. However, its seems like the right amount and time in the secondary is...

thanks guys! That is some great info! I am definitely going to have to look into the nibs now

Ok so I have been reading through the many threads about adding a chocolate flavor to a porter and I really want to try it with my next batch. I was planning on just trying a simple porter recipe then adding cocoa powder (or any other alternative that will give the beer a chocolate flavor)to...

Excellent! I wasn't worried about it until I read some other posts... Maybe ignorance is bliss

So I recently bottled my second batch of beer (a brown ale) with the premeasured 5oz of priming sugar which I thought was standard carbonation for a 5 gallon batch (probably about 4.75 after its all said and done). However, I have been reading some older topics and it seems like there is a...

I lied... my calc got me 25... even better!

You guys are good! My calculations got me at about 32 IBU I think and the goal was to get an English Brown Ale... well in this case an American English with the malts ha. Glad to hear that mixing is ok. Guess i'll see in about 6 weeks if this beer is any good!

So here is my recipe I have decided to go with for my second batch. Just wondering if any of you experts had any advice or thoughts about it? Feel free to tell me that this recipe is going to flop :drunk: Extract Brew Process: 4 lb Alexander's Pale Malt Extract 2 lb Munton & Fison Light...

I really appreciate the help! I have never thought about the carbonation levels of my beer before and so I didn't know if it played a major role in my overall quality of the beer!

I recently bottled my first batch of beer which happens to be a hefeweizen. I used the standard 3/4 cup of priming sugar (which was a bit less than the 5oz package it came in). But reading older posts, it would appear I would have wanted a 3.6-4.5 level of CO2 which would have called for about...

Because I am stubborn and did not like the idea of just blindly following a kit, my first brew (a hefeweizen) came from a recipe I found online that seemed like a simple beginners brew. Though I do not know how it is going to turn out, did I make a mistake by not starting out with kits first...

Thank you guys for the help! Hopefully i'm not posting to that thread in a couple weeks!

So in first ever batch I had a pretty quick learning experience... I found out that my beer was fermenting but my carboy was too small to hold all the foam being produced. When I found this out at 5:30am I panicked, sterilized my plastic bucket and in my haste dropped the airlock in the wort...