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The trick with black IPAs is that they can vary so much in style. m00ps is right, that chocolate starts to push it more into the direction of a stout with lots of hops. If you're looking for the body of an IPA but just with the touch of roastiness and black color, cut down on the chocolate and...

Hey everybody! I'm making my first stout this weekend, and thought perhaps I could get some feedback on the recipe I've come up with. I'm going for a coffee stout with a little chocolate backbone. Quaffable, so not too strong, but full of flavor. I'm mostly just not sure about my ratios of...

I knew I forgot about something. 10 days

So I brewed a straight forward English style IPA with the following: O.G. 1.060 F.G. 1.015 (estimated from Beersmith) Current F.G. 1.020 10g Gypsum 11 lbs Maris Otter 1.5 lbs Crystal 30 1 oz Columbus @ 60 min 1 oz East Kent Golding @ 30 min 1 oz Fuggles @ 10 min 2 oz Crystal Dryhop...

I'm new to the home brew scene, and as I'm sure is common with all beginners, I'm extremely paranoid about cleaning and sanitizing. So first lets cover cleaning. When is the correct time to clean all of the equipment, brew kettle, and fermenters? Right now I am filling everything up and...

Wonderful. Thank you all for your answers. Today i'm brewing a black IPA (Widmer's Clone).

I'm doing my very first steeping brew (2nd brew ever), and I've got about 3 lbs of specialty grains total that go into my recipe. I've lightly crushed the grains, and I'm ready to put them in the steeping bag(s), but I'm not sure how much should go in each bag. should I just put all of it in one...

Well in the end I ended up taking Norsk's advice. I kept second guessing which ingredients should and shouldn't go into a black IPA, and then I started to freak out about my hops profile as to whether those hops were fit for a black IPA at all. Then I realized that I'm not familiar enough with...

Thanks for the advice. I took the hops profile as a mix between these two recipes: http://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/modus-hoperandi-clone http://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/the-lagunitas-ipa-clone and the grain bill came from here: http://beersmithrecipes.com/viewrecipe/84605/black-ipa I...

Thanks for the advice. I took the hops profile as a mix between these two recipes: http://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/modus-hoperandi-clone http://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/the-lagunitas-ipa-clone and the grain bill came from here: http://beersmithrecipes.com/viewrecipe/84605/black-ipa I went and...

Hey everyone, I'm new to the home brew scene, and I've made a couple of extract brews from recipes in the beginners books that I own, so I've decided it's time to move on to attempting my own recipe. I want to make a Black IPA, but I don't want to blindly follow a recipe. What I did was...