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Pissentrough... now that's a name. Were those slender bottles once Dogfishheads?

+5 Gallons Smoked Porter = 24,048.5

Bourbon County Brand Stout Founder's Breakfast Stout Old Rasputin Chimay Grande Reserve Smuttynose Old Brown Dog

If you add your extract at flame out, after you've boiled the hops, you should use the gravity of the wort before you add that extract as the gravity in your IBU calculator, rather than your total SG. The gravity of your wort without all that sugar will be different than the SG of your recipe...

I think this is something where only time will tell if your off flavors will subside, unfortunately. I hope they do. In the future, maybe put your fermenter in a bath of cool water (and chill with icepacks or frozen bottles) to manage the temperature some. 80+ degrees is very warm for...

Before my first homebrew a couple months ago, I wanted to stock up on bottles quickly. Buying empty longneck bottles was $15/24, and buying *filled* Yuengling and PBR bottles was $17/24. I thought the choice was pretty clear—until I got home and realized they were all twist-offs. Still, they...

I'd think the biggest complicating factor regarding the hop boils would be that the utilization factor of the hops depends on the gravity of the boil. You're already adding different hops to different pots (at different volumes) for different times, but make sure you don't forget that the wort...

I think your recipe looks quite good, and will produce a nice, full-body, roasty, coffee-forward beer. I just brewed a similar coffee oatmeal stout myself. You might want to consider switching out the Crystal 80 for 60L, 40L, or even 20L. You will already get a lot of roast coming through...

My only named beer so far is my first. It was a coffee oatmeal stout—a breakfast stout. So I called it "First Meal." Works in a couple directions.

Let us know how it came out once it's ready! I've heard great things about the Moose Drool that I believe it to be based off of. I'm a fan of browns in general, but I've never had the original or this brew.

I'd love to hear some input on this, too.

5 gallons lightly smoked porter. Meant to make a brown ale with just a touch of roasted barley, accidentally bought twice the roasted barley I had intended. Should still be tasty.

I like most of the fish and eel I've had, but I don't like roe very much. It tastes too... briny? Like seawater. I'm not a huge fan of that flavor.

Like others said, read a lot! There's tons of great information on this site and all over the web. I highly recommend this book (free to read online): http://www.howtobrew.com It's got a lot of really fine information, and I was able to make a really tasty first beer using Palmer's...

Hey, man. Because of the forum that you posted this in, I'm gonna come at you from the perspective of a fellow beginning brewer. Maybe you're more experienced than me, and maybe what I say won't totally apply. I don't know. The way I feel, though, is that there're a lot of reasons that the...

Thanks for the tips, guys!

Does this go on the inside of your carboy? I use opaque buckets so this might not be the best option for me. If you put it on the outside I have to wonder if it's more representative of the ambient temperature or of the liquid within.

I often hear brewers here mention "temperature control" as one of the variables that improved their homebrew the most. I'm kind of a noob, and I've just been putting my fermenters (for ales) down in my basement where it's 69-75 degrees. It's worked well for me so far, but I know a lot of...

I understand your desires here. Luckily, since the amount of liquid you need for a grav reading is relatively small, it's pretty easy and quick to cool down your sample before you measure it. Dunk your vessel in some ice water and you're a couple of minutes away from the temp you want.

Wow. That's an impressive, high-tech set up you've got going. I mostly handle extract brews on a single pot on the stove—I feel a bit like a caveman. :cross: All in due time, though. I'm sure the precision and control you've got pay some dividends. :)