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4 ounces each or 1 ounce of each!?

Look into midnight wheat, or a debittered black malt(black prince). I just brewed NB ace of spades black ipa and really liked the smoothness of the malt(midnight wheat)!

Just remember dextrose will up gravity and dry out beer. Good for big IPAs. But if it's a malt forward beer like barley wine you might not want to use!!?

I would think to up base malt, make sure to rebalance hops as well! Get more ferment sugars in there!

Look into some mosaic, and if you can find equinox hops( pepper and lemon notes)!? Some noble hops have some spice too!

And I was worried about my mosaic hops from 2012 in my freezer!!! Lol! How much did you have!?

So I got some fresh hops from my local brewery. Not quite sure the amount? And want to use them for dry hopping for brew that is in primary and going to secondary on sat./sun. I vacuum sealed and put them in freezer i got them about 2 to 3 weeks ago. My question is should I have stored it this...

Good idea and great hear!! I'm just going to try it!! Thanks and cheers!!!

Need a little help! So I just brewed a smash chinook ipa and when I was at our local brew house for hop week I started talking to one of the owners about brewing and long story short, he gave me a bunch of fresh equinox hops and wanted to dry hop!! What do you all think!? I know it's a new hop...

Thanks going to go with that!! Cheers!

Thanks for info guys, was also researching Cali lager yeast which you can get it up to 65 or Scottish yeast as well! Anyone ever use these? Thanks again!

Need some help out on picking a ale yeast for my baltic porter. I know it's usually larger yeast but wanted to do a ale yeast do to temp control issues? I guess I want to make sure the ale yeast can handle a 8.5 to 9% abv!! Only doing a 3 gallon batch so should be good with 1 vial or packet. I...