Recent content by tallpaul07

When I bottled a wheat beer that I recently made I mistakenly only added 1/4 cup of priming sugar and then went through the arduous process of bottling all of the beer. It's been a couple of weeks now and I have very little carbonation and pinpointed the issue. My LHBS suggested I pour all of...

Hello All, Wanted to let you know that I just brewed a partial mash clone of Founder's Breakfast stout, and it turned out to be pretty phenominal. I did a side by side with the real thing and it is soooo spot on. Here is the recipe...

I just racked my Pliny the Elder clone that I got from the BYO magazine, (10 oz of hops during a 90 min boil) and tasted some of it.... wow.... I think I could bottle this up and sell it as hop extract. Has anyone else experienced this? Then I added 7 oz of dry hops for my 5 gallon brew...

@Smears - if I'm doing partial mash brews, you suggest full boils? I have a 7.5 gallon pot so could totally do it. What are the benefits of full boil in your opinion?

The cold water that I'm using is tap water. Should I switch this up?

So I had previously been pouring my 2 gallons of hot wort into my primary with 3 gallons of cold water (through a strainer) and then sitting the bucket into an ice bath to cool down. I had a friend taste my beer, and he mentioned that the pouring the hot wort into the cold water was creating...

So this evening, I went to my local beer store, looking to buy one of their mini-mash kits.... but a magazine catches my eye "250 commercial clones" - I open it and find interest in the Pliny the Elder clone. I take the recipe to the front counter and the worker scoffed at how much it was going...