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I picked up ingredients for a American Wheat base beer (10 gallons) and plan on adding watermelon juice in secondary. Recipe looks like this:. 9lbs Pale Malt 9lbs Red Wheat 1/2 lb honey malt 3 oz Saaz at 60 min American Hefe Yeast WY1010 Question is, I picked up some El Dorado...

Has anybody used this in a coffee stout? https://m.samsclub.com/ip/cool-brew-original-coffee-32-fl-oz/prod1113648

After reading up a little more on the topic, I guess Crystal and Caraviene are the same. Picked up the grain bill today so we shall see how it turns out.

Am thinking of changing things up a little on my APA recipe. Was wanting to move away from using Crystal. Been reading up on using Caravienne and Caramunich and came up with the following grain bill. 10 lbs Pale Malt 1 lb Vienna 1 lb Caravienne Hop Schedule .75 oz Centennial FWH .75 oz...

Brewed this up today. Had originally planned to do a watermelon wheat but good watermelons are hard to come by this late in the summer. Hope its worth the hype.

Sorry. Posted in wrong thread..lol

Went with a 4500 LWD element.

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Inside mash tun

Locline recirc arm

Sorry for the delay but here are the mash tun pics

You are correct. Still use gas to boil and heat up sparge / strike water. The system runs off 110v. I will post a pic of my mash tun in a little later. Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

I know it has been some time since I did the build, but I finally got around to leak testing and test firing my RIMS system. I have used this wire shelf for storing my brew equipment and it will serve as a temporary brew stand until I upgrade. I filled up my Mash Tun, which is the cooler on...

Was thinking of making using a traditional recipe as my first batch. As for yeast, D-47 or Wyeast 4632 or 4184.

So I have decided to make the jump and try making a batch of mead. I have two sources of honey and so far have around 8 lbs. collected. Question is, one of the sources collects his honey from a different portion of the state. The flavor of the honey is distinctively different, more flowery...