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Jesse - yeah, when I put it into Beer Tools it came out to about 20 IBUs.

The tea itself has a barely detectable citrus component. It's much more... "creamy" tasting rather than "sharp". That said, would fuggles go with this creamy vanilla-ness?

Alright guys, I posted about this earlier... and I've deciding to go forward with it. Here's my quick-to-mature Holiday Mild(ish). 4# Light DME 1/2# Crystal 60 1/2 # Carapils .75 oz Fuggles (boiling) .75 oz Fuggles (flavor) 1 oz Celestial Seasonings Sugar Cookie tea Yes, that last...

OK, so after further thought I decided on something interesting... I found some weird Celestial Seasonings that has the flavor of sugar cookies. Yes, sugar cookies. Its ingredients consist of roasted barley, vanilla, orange peel and milk thistle. It's flavor (as a tea) is subtle but...

Hey all, So I prepared extensively for Thanksgiving by brewing up a dunkelweizen (finishing up carbing as we speak). BUT I realized I hadn't given ANY thought to Christmas. Seeing as it's probably too late to brew a bigger beer, I had the idea of brewing up a spiced beer with a lower OG...

So I was recently in Brooklyn a couple weeks ago and fittingly had a Brooklyn Lager. Wow! It was surprisingly hoppy and they tasted very "fresh" and "clean". The website says it contains Hallertauer Mittelfrueh, Vanguard and Cascade hops - would anyone be able to suggest the amounts and type...

Haha, maybe I'm just immature but that sounds like something else... As for the name, I was thinking about this weekend - "Black Friday Porter"

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone had a clone for schneider weisse using extract. I recently had it in DC and I just LOVE the clove/apple taste that I got from it. Thanks, Chris

I was thinking up some crazy thoughts the other day. There was a thread floating around that was basically a clone of miller light. What do you suspect the taste profile would be like if you substituted white labs trappist yeast for the normal lager yeast?

Just for reference, the recipe for 5 gallons consists of: 6.6 lb Wheat LME 1 lb maltodextrin 1 lb specialty grains (steeped before boil) Danstar Munich yeast

Hey guys, So a while back I had a problem with my dunkelweizen that I was brewing (didn't start fermenting for 5 days, finally noticed activity after). So, fermentation activity has ceased for the past 4 days or so. My OG was 1.054 and the reading I just took is 1.022. That said, I'm...

UPDATE - So I took off the lid and there's no foam :( Also, I accidentally put my bottle of sanitizer on the hydrometer and now it's in a million little pieces. And my homebrew store isn't open until tuesday. :( Man, I was hoping for a smooth-sailing first batch...

Hey all, I have plastic bucket fermenter ("Ale Pail") and I haven't seen any bubbles coming from the fermentation lock in 3 days. Would it be okay to take of the lid and check for any signs of fermentation?

Hey guys, So I was thinking about starting up some apfelwein - figuring it'd be good to have during the month of December. BUT! I wanted to add some holiday spice to it in a nod to the holiday season. I haven't dealt with spices in any brews before, so I was wondering if you guys would...

Okay, so I pitched my yeast and have my primary fermenter down in the basement. That said, I have two questions: 1) The temperature on the strip thermometer on the side of the fermentor reads 72 degrees. Is that okay for a dunkelweizen? I've read that the temperature determines the amount of...

So the goal of proofing yeast in water is just to make sure it's alive? Does sprinkling vs. proofing affect the taste in any way?

So... I think I might have made a mistake. After I poured my wort into the primary fermenter (the beginnings of a dunkelweizen, if you are interested) the instructions for my Brewer's Best kit instructed me to "sprinkle the yeast packet" into the wort. So, I did. But! I came on here and...