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Would be interested as well same questions as above

Disaster! Just transferred to secondary, measured the gravity at that time found it to be 1.060 my final should be much lower in the neighborhood of 1.020. There was tons of airlock activity the first week, slowed until the last two days when there was almost none. Tasted it, could definitely...

Here are the results from the Chestnut mash Time Temp Gravity Notes 00:00 200 1.016 Chestnuts into 4 gal boiling water 00:02 200 1.028 00:12 200 1.036 Chestnuts becoming soft 00:22 203 1.036 00:27 205 1.036 00:37 203 1.036 Chestnuts absorbed about ¾ gallon of water...

I beleive it has to do with the type of plants in the area of the beehives where the honey is first made. Often times you will find varying color or quality from things like "wildflower" honey as wild flowers are different everywhere.

The recipe for my strong scottish ale: 5lbs. Chestnut 6lbs. Brown rice syrup (60 min) 2 lbs d-90 candi (60 min) 1 oz Goldings (45 min) 1 oz Target (20 min) Primary for 14 days: S-33, pectic enzyme, clarity ferm (still have some left from my gluten removed attempt) Secondary for...

Received the chestnut chips today. I am wondering what kind of efficiency I can expect with this approach. Beercalculus says 24 ppg as a Target but I won't know what I reach until after I've added enzymes and given it a chance to convert. Picking up some extra rice syrup in case my...

Thanks for your response, took some time to read much of that thread, I think i may do a strong scottish ale while I wait (recipe would be like a stripped down version of this one). I also like the idea of using oak chips/cubes, a gluten free Innis and Gunn clone would be very neat. Have...

My likes: Both Omissions (no reaction myself) The brunehaut line (some reaction with the blonde) New grist was ok Angry orchard ciders are fantastic (as are many other ciders). Dislikes: All of the new planet brews (especially their IPA, tasted like a rusty penny) St. Peters Sorghum (metallic...

Interested in making a high gravity gluten free brew. Sorry in advance for the book I'm writing, i have a lot of questions/ideas and as i write i get more. Drawing from this thread as my recipe inspiration: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f164/chestnut-dark-scottish-ale-possibility-344520/ I...