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I have seen a few recipes for oatmeal raisin cookie brown ales, and wanted to try brewing one. My brother and I will be trying this out Saturday, any tips would be helpful. Est OG: 1.055 Est FG: 1.017 Est ABV: 5% Est IBU: 18.2 8lbs Maris otter 1lb Flacked Oats 1/2 toasted 1/2 lb of Special B...

I want the final gravity to be around 1.02-1.025, so I want some sugar left over. I just put 24 lbs of honey with a total volume of 5.5 gals into a mead calculator and it said my starting gravity would be 1.16, bringing 1.16 down to between 1.02-1.025 would give me about 18% abv if i did that...

I starting a pretty big mead, 24 lbs of honey for 5.5 gal of mead with a final gravity of 1.02. So I am trying to get it to about 18% abv using k1-v1116. I started a small yeast starter with 10g of yeast. I just realized I don't have any DAP, I only have fermaid K and Fermaid O on hand. I...

It was buckwheat honey, sorry. I was going to step feed, ending sweet/semi-sweet.

6 gal batch 16 lbs of honey (not sure what varietal) 8 lbs of buckwheat Cocoa nibs coffee (or maybe cherries) vanilla Med + Hungarian oak EC 1118 I was looking for some opinions on what type of honey I should use for the 16 lbs, if ec 1118 is the best yeast for this, and the...

Thanks for all the help

Any suggestion on a kettle, should I get a ball valve, and a dial thermometer? Immersion chiller or plate chiller? Thanks, I was thinking of getting one while I was brewing. Never ended up getting one but will definitely look into them again.

Thanks for the replies, I looked into BIAB and it looks like it might be a good place to start. Going to look into what a nice 15 gal kettle, and a wort chiller will cost me.

I have not brewed beer in a few years, but brewed about 15 batches with extracts, and want to get in to brewing again and am thinking about all grain. I will most likely be brewing mostly stouts, and am looking for a basic set up. I am thinking of buying a cooler mash tun, and a 15 gal...

The honey flavors you use will come out in the final mead. If you want a bold flavored honey try buckwheat. If you find a good online honey distributor the often describe the flavors of the different honey. I buy my honey from flyingbeeranch.net

1.171 is a high OG, has fermentation started? I am unfamiliar with that yeast but it might be hard to get started in that high of an OG. The quick search I just did says it can ferment up tp 12% that would leave you with a fg of 1.08. that is pretty sweat. If this is right I might think...

I have fortified fig mead going and am going to oak it soon. 6 lbs meadowfoam honey 6 lbs buckwheat honey 6 lbs dried organic mission figs(chopped) 2 lbs dried organic Turkish apricots Put the 3 lbs of each honey into fermentation bucket add water to 3 gallons. I mixed until all honey...

I bought it from http://flyingbeeranch.net/ tasted real good. it comes to $4.16 per pound if you buy at least 6 pounds.

Figured I would post the progress 5/18 sg: 1.04 5/22 sg: 1.02 5/28 S.g. 1.01 6/2: Sg still at 1.01 Racked and stabilized 6/3 Added 2 Ceylon cinnamon sticks 6/5: added 2 more cinnamon sticks. 6/6: back sweetened to 1.018 with honey Used 1/8 gallon apple juice to...

I think a gallon of honey is usually 12 lbs. And congrats on the turn out of your first mead.