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I am making a brown ale that I wanted to put in a maple syrup bourbon barrel. I have a local homebrew store that has some 5 gallon barrels that I would like to use. My question is do I need to fill the entire barrel up with syrup to get the syrup flavor into the wood? I also have a local place...

This my first recipe on my own, I am trying to make a Chocolate Graham Cracker Russian Imperial Stout. Any suggestions on my recipes would be greatly appreciated. Type: All Grain Batch Size: 5.00 gal Boil Size: 6.73 gal Boil Time: 60 min End of Boil Vol: 5.98 gal Final Bottling Vol: 4.25 gal...

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I want to start experimenting with some small one gallon batches of beer. I am starting out with a Russian Imperial Stout. I am using a Wyeast liquid starter, and from what I have read they usually have 70-140 billion cells in them. That is quite a variance. How do I adequately calculate how...