I am getting ready to place an order with Austin Home Brew. I will probably order Monday so I get it Thursday or Friday so my beer kits don't sit in UPS hubs all weekend.
I am thinking of ordering these three recipe kits:
1. Nut Brown Ale because my first brew was a brown ale that I loved figured I try Nut Brown.
2. Milk Chocolate Stout, think this will be good around Christmas instead of a holiday spice ale?? It won't be an everyday beer for me but a good one every once and a while.
3. AHS Black Ale. I recently had Saranac Bavarian Black Beer and loved it. I hope this will be like it.
For all 3, the recommended dry yeast is Danstar Windsor. Should I use that or some of the others I see people talking about here all the time? For the milk Chocolate Stout they recommend Double Pitching the yeast because the OG is 1.071. Would you?
Any feed back or other recomendations on recipes is welcomed!!! I am still doing partial boil extract with steeping. I wanted to move to Partial Mashes by now, but I can not boil more then 3 gallons at a time. Did not get the turkey fryer yet.
If I get all three next week (flat shipping) do I just put the yeast in the fridge, or the steeping grains too?
Thanks in advance!
Dave
I am thinking of ordering these three recipe kits:
1. Nut Brown Ale because my first brew was a brown ale that I loved figured I try Nut Brown.
2. Milk Chocolate Stout, think this will be good around Christmas instead of a holiday spice ale?? It won't be an everyday beer for me but a good one every once and a while.
3. AHS Black Ale. I recently had Saranac Bavarian Black Beer and loved it. I hope this will be like it.
For all 3, the recommended dry yeast is Danstar Windsor. Should I use that or some of the others I see people talking about here all the time? For the milk Chocolate Stout they recommend Double Pitching the yeast because the OG is 1.071. Would you?
Any feed back or other recomendations on recipes is welcomed!!! I am still doing partial boil extract with steeping. I wanted to move to Partial Mashes by now, but I can not boil more then 3 gallons at a time. Did not get the turkey fryer yet.
If I get all three next week (flat shipping) do I just put the yeast in the fridge, or the steeping grains too?
Thanks in advance!
Dave