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Hard to tell from the pictures, but in all honesty it looks about like what I usually get. I also do biab and while I set my recipes at 75% efficiency I usually come out a little higher.

Thanks for the replies guys. It is a glass bubbler, and honestly I love it. I would not go back to a classic carboy. My only concern is the mold I mention. I may rub down the threads with Vodka or rubbing alcohol prior to sealing next time as has been suggested.

Not sure I completely understand your malt situation. If I am correct and you have a can of lme marris otter. And you are looking for a fall/autumn style beer. I think I would go with 1/4 hallertau for bittering and let that be it. That should give you a fairly malt forward beer. If you could...

Haha, not sure if that was supposed to be tongue in cheek or not, but I think "documentary" would be a strong word for Europa Report. It is however a fantastic sci-fi flic.

I'm not sure if you would call Hobgoblin a craft beer, but it was upon drinking one that I started going to specialty beer retailers and trying anything and everything I could get my hands on. Up until then I had only had domestic trash.

In describing allagash curieux, a friends husband told me. "It's dark, not as dark as say a german pilsner, but darker than Newcastle brown."

Anyone use one of these? I have now brewed three beers in mine and every time I find mold in the threading of the lid. I have not had any infections and after the first time I sanitize the hell out of the lid, but the mold still occurs. Is this happening to anyone else? Any ideas on causes or...

I realize this is an old thread, but Bilbo and Frodo's birthday was September 22. I came across this when looking for some "proper 1420" recipe ideas. FWIW I brewed a southern english hazelnut brown. I'll give some feedback once it's bottled and carbed.

I second that, I like 04 in more robust beers.

Thanks for the feedback Joseph, I'll be sure to take several hydrometer readings before thinking it finished. I will be bottling it, and would love for it to be done quickly, but willing to wait until it is done. I appreciate the heads up.

So I brewed this today with some changes. 3# m.o 1# rye .5 cascade pellet for 60 1oz whole leaf cascade for 30 .5 cascade for 5 I lost a little more in my boil than I had intended, so it came out at 2.1 gallons and OG of 1.051 should finish around 1.013 so right at 5% abv.

Certainly seems off, I notice his efficiency is only 40% as well. I would look for other recipes or alter this to fit your efficiency level. If you do not know your efficiency level, a good start is 75%.

So I have not brewed any porters either, prefering stouts. I looked into some porter recipes and you are correct a lot of them call for black patent. As you stated in your original post black patent has a very charcoal like flavor that I would have thought was a bit much for a porter. That being...

I think that would be a safe bet. If you brew it, please post the recipe and let us know how it turned out.

I would think black patent is a little strong for a porter. I honestly have no experience with carafa III, but if, as you say it has a roasty flavor I would definitely give it a try.

Haha, if you brew that please post the recipe. I don't have a lot of experience brewing rye, but I love a good Rye beer. Sierra Nevada's ruthless rye is one of my favorites, I have also had a fantastic peppercorn rye, but I forget the brewery, it was a pick your own six pack deal. As for going...

I'll check that out Elejefe. Beer Cheese

Thank you slim. I assumed pitching an entire packet would not do harm, but you know what they say about assumptions... So on the whole you think the recipe is fine? I will be upping the rye to 1# on Aristotelian's advice.

Firstly I agree with cutting the roasted barley in half and adding some chocolate. Lastly, I recently listened the a basic brewing radio episode where they talked about adding coffee. The method they suggested was adding 4oz of whole bean in the secondary for no more than 24 hours. They did not...

It's dry, I believe Bells Saison. I am tempted to save half as well, but on the other hand I do not know when I will be brewing another 2.5 gallon saison... so if it won't hurt anything I may pitch the entire packet. I just don't want to over pitch if there is such a thing.