Recent content by chris200

Go for it. Use commercial hops for bitterimg and I would use 25% to 50% more finishing hops using home grown hops as they can be a bit "weaker" than commercial hops. But for a brown you might be fine with what the recipe calls for since browns don't have a bunch of hops in them.

Mash em, less complicated.

1 oz chips, one airplane bottle Jim Beam black, for a few days, the into secondary 6 days then bottle. Did this with a sweet stout, has nice oak flavor, and just the essesence of the liquor.

It will be fine.

Hmm you should have plenty of hop flavor in your beer. Granted remember you didn't make a hop explosion IPA what you did seem more than adequate. A couple of things might be reasons you are not getting much hop flavor. First, do you know how old the hops might be? Where they stored in a...

Does anyone know where I could find some used scrapped kegs for keggles in Omaha, Nebraska area?

Look up DMS and boilng wort. I think DME has DMS that you want to boil off.

i heard it is best to make your own bread, store bread has too much salt.

i did a brew with 10 year old malt and it came out great.

Relax, it will be fine. I run the hops right into the fermenter all the time. You have plenty of OG for a good beer. if you want to add some malt extract to make up the difference

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i say give it a try. I am curious if less time will result in less sugar? or if the pressure will result in more sugar?

I say go for it if you are doing a batch 5 gal or greater.