Recent content by osbick_bird

About a week away from bottling! I will let you guys know how it turns out. Thank you so much everybody for your input!!

Hi everybody!! Have never brewed a Winter Warmer before but...tis the season :) I was pondering what direction to take with this--when I was little our mom would always make "Russian Tea" every winter (if memory serves.....a mixture of Tang, Country Time lemonade powder, instant Lipton tea, a...

Hey! So I was just sort of kicking around the idea of an autumnal tea-infused amber with some toasty & nutty notes. Wild rice is a pretty perfect Thanksgiving-y grain, and Hojicha tea is a really delicious Japanese roasted green tea, less astringent/vegetal, more roasty/caramelly than regular...

Got my scoring sheets back!! Both judges liked the creamsicle vanilla/orange combination and felt it was well balanced with the base wheat beer, but I did get dinged for the lack of appreciable honey. Maybe using a more aromatic/flavorful variety than wildflower & adjusting up the honey malt...

Just plain old wildflower honey! It has a little more going on than clover honey...orange blossom would have been nice but I couldn't find any in time. :)

Finished product! I reduced the orange peel in the boil to .5 oz (if I had this to do over again, would add a full 1 oz), added 2 T vanilla extract to secondary, then at bottling some crystallized orange and an additional 1 T vanilla extract. Going to try entering it in the state fair homebrew...

Thank you so, so, so very much for the fantastic advice & feedback! I feel a lot more confident moving forward with this. Will post updates after brew day!

Hey! So this is my first crack at putting a recipe together on my lonesome, just thought I'd run it past you guys first to see if anything looks obviously crazy. Aiming for a 5 gallon batch with a BIAB setup. This is also my first go with using brewing software, using Brewfather. Hoping for a...

Hey everybody from Oregon! I've been brewing for about a year and a half now--started out with 5 gallon extract brews on our stove, got some equipment upgrades for Christmas and have moved on to a 5 gallon BIAB setup. Just got a chest freezer for my birthday and have a temperature regulator...