Recent content by HeyLewis

I made a post yesterday about adding pine to beer and a few people were interested in the recipe I was planning on trying it with. I brew this every year for a camping trip a bunch of us go on and it always goes over really well. A friend and I got together to make the "perfect camping beer"...

Hmm, sounds like spruce is the way to go. I'll try a few experiments and see how it goes and let you guys know. The recipe went something like this: 5 Gal batch 6lbs - Vienna 2lb 12oz - Smoked malt (light smoked) 2lbs - Crystal 120L 1lb - Rye malt 12oz - Chocolate malt .5oz - Simcoe - First...

I've been brewing a beer I call my Camp Fire Porter for a while now for an annual camping trip I go on with the idea to embody everything you think of when you think about camping in one beer. Thinking about what aromas are around a campsite, I came up with a porter that had big chocolate notes...

I am trying to brew this oddball recipe this weekend. Its a recipe derived from tablets and whatever they could find about brewing beer 4000 years ago, a really interesting read if you have the time. http://byo.com/stories/item/144-archaeobeer But anyway, the jist of it is first you make...

Thanks! I think im gonna try 1/4lb of it and see how it goes. I picked up this "light peat malt" beside the peat malt at the brew store. I know peat malt or smoke malt you can overuse quite easily, but this stuff isnt crazy peat smelling, maybe about half what the normal stuff is. Guess I'll...

I have a great recipe (which I found somewhere on this site) for a really nice Irish red ale and I was trying to add a theres-something-different-in-this-beer-but-I-cant-quite-put-my-finger-on-it light peat smoke flavour. I was thinking 5oz of lightly peated malt should work, but I cant find...

I would expect your're right about the bitterness. Im looking to do a coffee stout sometime soon, maybe if I do all three techniques I'll end up with a carbonated, alcoholic coffee lol. Might just turn out.

I have heard a few different techniques on adding coffee to your brew, but I had the thought today about adding cracked coffee beans to your mash. I would assume you would get more aroma adding the grounds/brewed coffee at flame out or in the secondary, but I haven't heard adding the coffee to...