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There is a great difference between Guinnesss Draught Guinness Extra Stout Guinness Foreign Extra Stout If you get a pint on tap, or there is a widget in the bottle, or it is out of a can, it is Guinness Draught. This is a session beer, normally too watery for my taste except if I want...

Well, I did let it sit a leetle bit longer than maybe I should, but both my pale ale (8 wks) and my steam beer (6 weeks) went from primary to bottle to belly and came out just fine. I admit I should have bottled a bit sooner, but these are both goooood beers (the CA beer needs a bit more time...

I see - I guess I'm a sheltered brewer. My local brew store sells LME in bulk, so I could get pretty much exactly what I wanted. Thanks, all, for an A to the noob's latest dumb Q.

I see lots of recipes with both LME and DME. How come? Is there a benefit to using both? So far I have just bought LME from my local shop.

The only problem with the starter is once I make it, I'm committed. Just warming the vial three hours before pitching is real convenient, but I like the idea of fully woke up and happily reproducing yeasties. Learning slowly but learning - no secondary fermenter any more, six weeks in the...

Just brewed an IPA Sunday. Since our house usually is quite cool in the winter (64-66), I was concerned with pitching enough yeast. I use the White Labs vials, in this case London Ale. So this time I made a starter with 1/4 pound of light DME. Wow!:ban: Tremendously active in less than...

Just too many good beers around here for reasonable prices to spend that much. I do swing out once a month or so and get a couple of bottles of Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, but we get stuff like Deschutes Red Chair, Ninkasi's whole lineup, and our local non-bottling breweries for far less. In...

Very aromatic - the first storebought beer I have had that wowed me by the aroma before my first taste.

Been waiting almost 10 months for this stuff....man, is it good! Buying a whole bunch this winter, the goal is to clone. But in the meantime...... :):mug:

I actually have a taster for stouts. By that I mean I have been drinking them, a wide variety, for way longer than I have been brewing. But this one spent about two weeks in primary, and 6 in secondary. Maybe that helps? My IPA's tend to taste like I am eating raw hops till they've been in...

Lucky you don't live in Minnesota!:ban:

Noob, here, with a total of seven or eight batches under my belt (just look, they're all right there...).:D I bottle, never have kegged. Right now just bottle the 22oz-ers, as I like a real glass of beer when I sit down to have one - bought some nice big beer glasses just for that purpose.:)...

70 degrees in my house is a real challenge this time of year. So, maybe more weeks at 65.....

Thanks! :mug::mug: I learn slow, but I does learn. 'Course, if its hot or sharp, I can learn real fast.....

Revvy, have you sunk to just copying and pasting your posts? Seems I read this before.....:) (And NO critique there - the answer is well-repeated). As a noob, I'm still opening them a bit young - I have enjoyed tasting the progression from crap to, well, not crap. I usually sample once a...