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Went to the liquor store last night and while I was browsing I noticed that they have the Alltech Brewery Beers there!!!! They were sold out of the bourbon barrel, but I still have a stash of them. $10.50 for a 4-pack in Wisconsin, much easier than driving to Kentucky!

are the hops and cubes right? I thought it was 1.5 oz at 60 mins? And I was just planning on 1 oz of cubes. The OG looks a little high as well, I was around 1.070.

Yea, I had my wife pick up 6 4-packs a couple years back when she went down that way. I have had to ration them so they last. I kegged my batch this morning. It finished at 5.2P (about 1.020), so hopefully it isn't too sweet as that is a little higher FG than expecting. It is still 6.6 ABV...

Check out this thread. If you are mashing it looks like either will work, but flaked wheat may get a lower conversion than malted and have a slightly different taste. I will be kegging mine on Thursday or Friday. I am going to be naturally carbonating in the keg and adding oak. I will put it...

That works, I have never done BIAB, but I've heard of others getting better efficiencies than I do with it. You will need more than your preboil volume due to grain absorption. There should be some information out there on how much you can expect. I used all UK hops/yeast etc. I am not sure...

You can barrel age anything, it doesn't matter where you start.

Yea, that is expensive. I love getting a 50 pound sack of grain for $36 and getting a few batches out of it. A yeast starter wouldn't be necessary, but really helpful. You could pitch an additional package of yeast or use dry yeast. Yes, the recipe we are basing this off of a previous...

No problem, its a big step and this is a fairly complicated brew to start on. DME would be fine at .85 of the original amount. Use Caramel 40, it is the same as Crystal 40. I am using a medium toasted amerian oak. I will use 1 oz of cubes. I used Wyeast 1098(WLP007 if you prefer) with a 2L...

I would do about half in the beginning so it is approximately the same gravity as the finished wort for hop utilization. Then with about 10-15 minutes left I would add the remaining LME. I am just using American oak cubes I got from the wine section of Northern Brewer. I am not soaking the...

The reason I have 5.5 going into my fermenter is so I can get a full 5 gallons into my keg when I am done with some loss to trub in the kettle and carboy. Getting the correct OG and FG is more important than getting a specific amount of beer, so gather as much as you are able to bottle or keg...

You wouldn't need to do a full boil, just add the extract later in the boil to sanitize, I have made some great beers doing partial boil. I don't know how many fermentables you would get with the steeping grains, but you would need about 10.75 pounds of LME to get to the 1.070 gravity in 5.5...

I just made this yesterday, mashed a little high at 154, but I hit 14.6P for my preboil gravity. I didn't take a post boil as I should have hit 17P on the nose with my volume being correct. I have been experimenting with chill cubes, so I put it in and let it drop to 63 degrees for a little...

For those interested, I adjusted for 70% efficiency and a 7 gallon preboil, 6 gallon post boil and 5.5 to primary and came up with: 12.75 lb 2 row 1.33 lb carapils 1.33 lb crystal 40 1 lb wheat malt for that, the hop additions come out to about 26 IBU's using Rager's formula. For the...

Can't wait to hear how it turned out! were the percentages about 78% 2 row 8% crystal 40 8% carapils 6% wheat what IBU's and %AA for the hop additions? I think your gravities are fine since they are .005 low on each end so the % alcohol will be the same. What was your preboil...