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Congrats Jbogan! I got a gold for my Maibock.

Thanks, just got them. Did you enter any beers?

Is anyone else having trouble seeing their score sheets? I can't download mine.

Thanks for the recipe. I used this as a base. I did a 2.5 gallon recipe and omitted the ginger tea. I kegged the cider and back sweetened it with 2 cups apple juice with 1/2 organic sugar (I didn't use brown sugar for the recipe at all). I used 1 oz Amarillo whole hops. No secondary with this. 8...

Thanks for the recipe. I used this as a base. I did a 2.5 gallon recipe and omitted the ginger tea. I kegged the cider and back sweetened it with 2 cups apple juice with 1/2 organic sugar (I didn't use brown sugar for the recipe at all). I used 1 oz Amarillo whole hops. No secondary with this. 8...

I bought a ball lock attachment to my co2 system to carbonate. I forgot the name of it. It works so-so. The flavor was alright. I recommend using the hop oils. Hop My Beer sells the hop oils for $5 a piece. They are 10 ml vials, but yet have a lot of different types of hops. I am going to add...

Pitch all of it. You'll be second guessing yourself forever. Get a new scoby and start over.

Unity Vibration in Ypsilanti, MI makes kombucha beer. Some of it is really good.

I had some hop soda from a company in Grand Rapids called Proper Soda. It was pretty good. They use Cascade oil. I've decided to tinker around with making some myself. Here's what I'm going to try: 1 gallon distiller water Take 1/2 the water and dissolve 1 1/2 cups of organic cane sugar. Add...

I usually add my dark grains at the end of a mash. It affects the mash pH. In addition, you're just get color and flavor a out of the grains. The sugars have already been converted.

How did your beer turn out? I took 2nd place at the Michigan Beer Cup over the summer in the vegetable/herb/spice category with a Rooibos blonde. I called it the "Madiba" after the passing of Mandela. My advice would be to cold steep the tea for a day or two, then add it to the secondary. It...

Queasy 2565 takes a little longer to clear out than wl 029. You'll probably have to add some findings and eventually keg and lager it out.

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I'm using Brewpal and the ibu's only came out to 48. Anyone else have use Brewpal have the numbers off?

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