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Here is my logo. I live in a small Swiss town which was my inspiration for the logo design and name. Bär Stein Brew

Can you post your compete recipe you used then? You did the 2 packs of wine yeast instead of the champagne right? I'm going to attempt this soon, but am going to try and bottle carb it at the end. Thanks

How much coriander and orange peel did you use? I'm going to brew this weekend.

Could you do a bottle carb instead on this? Just start with 3 pounds of sugar? Or still add the 1 pound at the end? Do you need a priming sugar then if you add that at the end? Lots of questions!! Thanks for the post

Yeah I'm planning on throwing in the coriander at 10 min left and the zest at 5. Sound good?

Nope I didn't energize. What was your final OG reading?

Ok cool so just add in the coriander and orange zest like in some recipes? Thanks guys! Can't wait to brew this!

I did the recipe above with the 5 lbs of sugar. My yeast didn't take well at first and had EXTREMELY SLOW airlock activity. I tried a few things (warmer temp., stir every day) to keep from having to repitch, but didn't react the way I really wanted and I ended up having to re-pitch. ( I probably...

Has someone posted that already? Sorry I havnt read through all of them yet. Thanks for the help! I'm sure I'll get to the point of being all grain, but extracts will do for now.

Ok first off I'm pretty new to brewing. My first batch of beer I made had a kit with instructions, so I followed them, and boom! I made beer! Now I get on here and see these grain ratios and times so I start reading articles and researching. I want to make this recipe next, but my question is...

I am planning on doing this recipe, but use the 10 cans of Minutemade. I have this raspberry syrup I wanted to flavor this with. 1 can I even use something like this and 2 when should you suggest I add it? During fermentation? At bottling? I am wanting to carbonate it in the bottles just like...