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First time to brew a lager....a dunkel.

Ya'll, I helped a buddy brew up this recipe last week. This was his first stab at homebrewing and he wanted to do a 90 Schilling as it is his favorite craft beer. We followed this recipe except we used 7# of light DME as opposed to 6# LME & 1# DME. We punched the ingredients into...

Thanks for the input ya'll - three batches into this hobby & still sooooo much to learn!!! :)

My latest brew spent two weeks in primary, and I decided to rack to secondary this weekend because it will probably be another two weeks before I am able to bottle and I wanted to get it off the trub. I took hydrometer readings over the space of three days and the readings came in the same - it...

I'm curious what effect the addition of maple syrup would have on the ABV% and flavor of a beer. I brewed a Maple Brown Ale on 11/3 from the following recipe: 6 lbs. light LME 3/4 lb. Victory malt 1/4 lb Crystal 80 1/4 lb Chocolate 8.5 oz. pure maple syrup 1 oz. Chinook 1 oz. Fuggles...

Wheat beers, blond ales, & especially imperial stouts!!

Deacon Brews The name came while listening to a Steely Dan tune. "They got a name for the winners in the world, I want a name when I lose, Alabama has the Crimson Tide, Call me Deacon Brews!" Why Deacon - well, I'm a deacon at the church I attend. No labels yet or names for my...

Well....I'm a n00bie with only two batches under my belt, but SWMBO says that I'm already obsessed with this stuff....I'm reading everything I can get my hands on as well as taking out a subscription to BYO and spending way too much time on this forum! :D Anyway, looking forward to many...

Thanks for the info. Another question: It will be Wed. before I can get more caps since my LHBS is closed today & tomorrow. Will I need to reprime or leave as is & bottle away?

So there I was last night bottling my second batch of homebrew and it hit me. I didn't have enough bottle caps to finish off the batch! :eek: My LHBS was closed for the day, so I couldn't run & pick up more. So after bottling everything I could, I sealed the remaining brew in my bucket and...

Ok, I don't have a wort chiller and my last batch has chill haze from what I think was an inefficient cold break (it took forever to get the wort down to pitching temps). We just had a new freezer delivered yesterday, and the thought came to me that with my next batch I should just put my...

I'm jealous....my wife fussed at me all day about the smell when I brewed up my last batch. She said that I made the house smell like Schlitz brewery! :D

Ya'll, My first batch has been in the bottles for only seven days...and got a little antsy last night - I just had to know if my first batch would be successful or not. And the verdict - SUCCESS!!!! :ban: While it's definitely not an award winner, I was extremely pleased with the...