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I decided to go with the Holiday Cheer recipe from the joy of homebrewing book, with a few changes. 7lbs light dry malt extract 2 oz black malt 1/2 lb crystal malt 2 oz cascade hops 1 lb local raw honey 1 oz bitter orange peel 2 3 in. cinnamon sticks 1 oz fresh grated...

Im getting ready to pick out a recipe for a holiday brew, I didn't want to rely only on the one I had, from papazian's joy of home brewing book. Im looking to make a full bodied ale, thats spicey, with touch of cinnomin in the flavor, any suggestions are welcome!

if it is yeast settling out, couldn't he put a flash light on one side of it, and see it well in the dark top side and not so well in the below that? :) just asking my noob question in case im ever trying to figure it out

I just popped open the fermentor, took a gravity reading, 1.014, tasted a bit spicey but good, alot better then the smell. Monday night will be about 7 days into fermentation, still bubbling the airlock every couple of min. so im expecting to get to around 1.011 which will be about 75%...

Thanx for the input every one, The LBHS put the joy of hombrewing on my kit, so i bought that when i started, and i did read most of John Palmers website, when i tried to make blackberry wheat, i spent two weeks reading this site and anything else i could find online, the guys / girls here...

Here is the story of my first brew, aside from the mr. beer kit, and my attempt at blackberry wheat in the mr beer kit (which still taste cidery after being bottled for 2.5 weeks and gets really bad chill haze) Please recomend what i can do better, or anything i should have done. I went to...

Thanx for the input every one, Mr. Beer has you use the booster, and say it can be replaced with sugar, I have been reading this forum for the last week, (the night after i put that stuff in the fermentor) and learning alot, that is just not in the little book that comes with the kit. I'm...

Parents got me a Mr. Beer kit for x-mas 2008, ive been looking the the kits on midwest for two weeks now... this hobby is more addicting then... Ham radio, Hiking, video gameing... i could go on and on, the wife is a little happier this hobby isn't as expensive as... the 850 dollar ham radio i...

My parents gave me a mr beer kit for x-mas, i made the pale ale, it came out good, so i didn't want to wait to order another mr beer refill, so i went to the LHBS and got 2.5 lb wheat malt extract, a bottle capper, no rinse sanitizer, a package of cooper yeast, and at the grocery store they sold...