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I would look around for an Oberon Clone. If your feeling like playing around I would suggest trying a lemon-coriander Wit. I made one and put it into secondary with some lemons and when I bottled I backsweetened with some Crystal light lemonade mix. If you like beer and lemonade its perfect.

Well I already have a Mead, a Cyser, Two honey added beers with one more comming in a couple days... and I still have about 14lbs still laying around. Soon it will be Honey harvesting time again and I will have even more.

Excelet. Thank you very much. :tank:

Im making a saosin right now too and I am using Wyeast 3522 Belgian Ardennes Yeast. Ive heard Wyeast 3724 Belgian Saison works very well also.

What would be a good rule of thumb for replacing corn sugar in a recipie with honey. From what ive found 1 cup of sugar is about equal to 2/3 honey. Is that right? I know honeys sugar content varies but I just dont like corn sugar and I have more honey than I know what to do with. :D

How is this comming along? Im playing around with the citra myself except im using citra and cascade with a very similar hop schedual as yours.

Ive found that if you have a separate pot with some warm water in it, you can tea bag your specialty grains in it and get that last little bit of goodness out of them. Then just add the water from that pot right into your kettle and continue on.

I know there is a sizeable difference in Cell counts between the dry and the activator packs. So maybe single pitch the dry but still double up the activator packs. Im just lazy and dont feel like messing with a starter. Im sure its a good idea but it just seems like another step to possibly...

Is it possible to overpitch a beer? On all of my brews I have been using 2 dry yeast packs and just rehydrating them before pitching them. Just curious as to what the effects of using more and more yeast would be? Also what would be the difference in yeast count be with 2 dry yeast...

Has anyone else been experimenting with Cirta hops? Im making an IPA with Cirta Hops and Cascade Hops right now and just wondering how its going to turn out? I expect it to be very citrusy which is what I was going for. Just wondering if anyone else out there has put them into their...

Teromous that was me driving around. We didn't make it anywhere due to good weather and good times with other people. I was pretty dissapointed at the lack of local virginia beer we went to a bunch of bars and grilles and al they had were domestics. I even went to the store and looked around...

Hey I'm on vacation in VA Beach and I was wondering if there were any micro breweries out here worth checking out. Also if there are any must try beers?

Does anyone know of some good places to go in virginia beach. I have family that lives by Mt. Trashmore but I will be staying on Atlantic at a hotel. Any must see microbreweries?

Welcome. Living in West Michigan but origionaly from Syracuse.

Thank you all for your responses. Heres the game plan. The honey is very sweet wildflower honey strait off the comb. So its going to be very good in anything it goes in. Im scaling this down to a 3 gallon batch so im going to use 10 lbs of honey. Adding water up to 3 gallons. Doing...

Their Irish Red kit is excelent. Somewhat sweet finish but not overpowering.

Hey look at that... ask and you shall recieve. This site has been invaluable so far. Im in no rush to get this started... since its going to take a year to make anyways. So like most things I do ill do some research and educate myself. I know everything mentioned above is at my LHBS as well...

Thats alot of chemicals. What is the Gypsum for? Also what is a good yeast nutrient and do you just dump it in. How would I calculate when 1/3rd sugar depletion has occured. I do not have anyway to check Ph without buying more equipment. When would you add the campden tablet (what is it...

Well I couldnt resist and I opened one up the other day to see how close the bottles are to exploding. And Ill be damned if there was only the smallest hiss when I opened it up. No carbonation yet at all. (still too early I know) But I still drank the beer anyways and damn it was good. If...

So I have never made a mead before and am currently 5 batches of beer in experience. I have a bunch of questions but I will save most of them for later. First off though my girlfriends parents keep their own bees and I can grab all the honey I want. But the problem is I have never made a...