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I brewed this last Sunday. Thanks for the recipe!

Brewed this yesterday. Thanks for the recipe!

I thought I saw someone peeking through my windows ;) Good luck on the 3 tier. Cheers!

What size carboy are you using? I think you can get blowoff tubes that fit inside of the the entire mouth of the carboy. With your widened tubing, you'll get less back pressure. I use inch and half diameter tubing which fits inside the carboy. Haven't had any problems. Cheers

I had a high fusel beer that I aged in room temperature for a few months to try and let the fusels mellow and had no luck. I have no experience storing it in cold, but my assumption would be that it would be slower to fade when temperature is in the 30's. I would keep it for as long as I...

Are you transferring to a secondary? If so how quickly? What's your timeline like? A couple things you can try that might be of help. Wait to transfer to a longer time. That much sugar needs a long time for the yeast to process. Get a starter going with yeast nutrients to get the...

So I just cracked open my first bottle of this. Recipe changed to fit what I had: 9 lbs 2 Row 1 lb 2 row baked on cooking sheet @ 325 for 30 minutes (biscuit malt?) 1 lb corn sugar 1 oz Cascade @ 30 minutes .5 oz Amarillo @ 15 min .5 oz Amarillo @ 10 min Dry Hopped 1 oz Amarillo in Primary My...

I haven't dabbled much in cider, but my LHBS guy swears by adding corn sugar to sweeten it up.

Do you use the BJCP guidelines? They've been invaluable to me in getting started creating recipes. BJCP 2008 Style Guidelines - Index That's my first go to. It gives you commercial examples which you can get recipes for, then go from there.

Welcome! It's easy to get bitten with the brewing bug. Especially with all the awesome breweries we have around us.

You're better off squeezing it in after your primary fermentation is over. You don't have to transfer, but wait until all your grain sugars are fermented, then add the orange juice. There's about 1,000 pages on HBT documenting the advantages of fermenting fruit after primary fermentation is over.

Nice Revvy! Did you pick those up in MI? All places near me are out of regular BCS. And yes I should have clarified. When GI comes out with King Henry, Vanilla or Coffee BCS, and Bramble Rye, they generally limit you to one. However, it may be a little different outside of the immediate GI...

Yeah. Even in Chicago, they're gettable, but they generally limit you to one per customer. I was doing some thinking last night and my best guess as to why the beer has been delayed has to do with the installation of their new fermenters...

Good luck finding gumballhead. I live here and can't even get any. Alpha King, Pride and Joy, Robert the Bruce, and Arctic Panzer Wolf shouldn't be too hard to get though.

So GI was supposed to release bramble rye, vanilla bcs, and coffee bcs last week. At some point they told their distributors they weren't going to be shipping that week, but it would release soon. This week, from what I've gathered, the release is unknown, at least by anyone outside the...