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I made a Czech pils a couple weeks ago that used a quarter pound of hobby malt and it's definitely noticeable. I would at least reduce it to half a pound. Try measuring out a 100 grains of malt that is in proportion with the percentages on your bill and chew em up real good. That should let you...

That's a lot of honey malt... Combined with the honey I fear you may turn into a bee from the massive honey flavor.

So I just brewed up a wit using a PM: 1 pound 6 row .5 pound carafa special .75 pound terrified wheat .5 pound oats Then added 7.5 punds wheat lme. 1 oz crystal hops at 60 (2.5 %) .25 citra at 60 (12.3%) .25 citra at 40 (12.3 %) 1 oz bitter orange at 4 .75 oz coriander at 4 Wyeast Belgian...

Wow, wine from cranberry sauce? Could you post your recipe for that - didn't see it in your personal recipes. Thanks!

I would be interested in swapping a bottle for it too... :mug:

It's a tie... 1) Harpoon Winter Warmer in 2008. I was at my local college bar which had 32 ounce mugs and you could select from 40 beers on tap. I figured it being cold outside warranted one of these... I should have tasted beforehand because I literally had to go back to the bar and ask him...

My "HWMBO" wasn't a beer drinker before I met him, but he sure as heck is a lot more knowledgeable now. He still prefers wine over a hoppy beer, but in general he's very supportive and more importantly, he helps me clean up ;)

Hey all, So I brewed up an abbey pale ale (my first AG!) using WL 530 and I've heard some good things about fermenting cider with belgian yeast. I'm thinking about just pouring in 5 gallons of juice/cider and maybe some brown sugar on top of the cake. My real question is whether or not the...

Wow, this is awesome! I'm not so sure about the "toilet recipes" though... ;)

A pack of "10 Beers Around the World" - full of awful international lagers, and a rogue dead guy ale (??).

and why can't you vorlouf? I don't see any problem catching 2 quarts of wort and putting it back into the cooler...

Now I'm going to have to make a new how-to thread: "Teabagging (With Photos)"

Alright, new campaign guys... "You Don't Need Fancy Hardware for All Grain Brewing"

Sweet... so why aren't we telling new home brewers how easy it is to brew with just a cooler and a grain bag? :confused:

Thanks all for the replies. I'm just now getting to understand all-grain brewing. I really like when I can break seemingly complex processes with a lot of jargon (sparge, mash-tun, lauter-tun) into their basic components (i.e. "extract sugars from grain by placing in hot water for an hour")...

I was thinking about moving to all grain brewing. After seeing a bunch of how-to's about converting a drink cooler to a mash-tun, I was wondering... Can't you just dump all your grain into a grain bag, put it in a cooler, add hot water to mash it, drain the wort, then sparge the grains...

Also, this is my first time doing a first boil w/ late extract addition. I think it made a heckuva difference.

Just took a hydrometer reading - 1.010 (down from 1.038). And, a taste... oh. my. god is this beer good. a little bit malty, a little bit hoppy, a little orange, a little caramel, the tiniest bit of vanilla, an AWESOME finish, i'm even getting something from the roasted barley that was in...

Alright, so my holiday mild is in the fermenter and bubbling away. This is what I did: 4 # light DME 1/2 # Carapils 1/2 # Crystal 60 1.25 oz fuggles (60 mins) .25 oz fuggles (20 mins) Munton's dry ale yeast 1 clove (30 mins) some fresh orange peel (2 mins) 5 bags Celestial Seasonings...

NQ3X - good point. I think I might just throw in an ounce of fuggles for bittering.