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Hi All, I've never developed my own recipe before, so I took a look at summersolstice's recipe for the Chimay Blue and made some modifications. I really don't know what I'm doing so any help in reviewing my changes would be appreciated. summersolstice's recipe was a little low on OG...

hah, i just did this tonight. see my results in my post in this forum. i started with 7 and ended up with 4.75 gallons of water, leaving me two quarts to play with including solids from steeping and liquid extract. That's after cooling to 75 degrees from the boil. I have a 39 quart pot.

So after several full boils that ended up in adding water to the fermenter I decided to do a full mock boil tonight and see just where I am. I did a mock minimash for 45 minutes at 155, then brought to a boil, simulated adding extract time, brought back to a boil and boiled for an hour. I...

oh, a bit further information. this was an AHS minimash, Steeped grains at ~155 for 45 minutes 1.5lb 2row, 1lb munich, .5lb caramunich, .5lb crystal 120l, 5lb munich extract, brewvint alcohol boost hop schedule was 1.5 Hallertau for 60, .5 cascade and .5 hallertau for 15, .5 cascade...

So I did an Irish Red on Sunday. Og was 1.055. So today is really the 4th full day of fermentation, but the bubbles have stopped (i know that doesn't mean its really done). I popped the bucket open to take a gravity reading and low and behold there was no Krausen. I probably could have...

glad your pooch pulled through man.. my cockapoo had a ruptured disc a few years ago and I ended up shelling out over 5k for the damn dog. He's my boy though, and I'd do it again in a minute. No children yet, so it was a no brainer. I couldn't stand the thought of being financially capable...

Search for Revvy's blog about bottle conditioning. There's a link to a video clip in it that shows carbonation changing over 3 weeks. Hang tight for another week and then try again. I found that at 1 week i was very flat, on week two way over carbed. According to the video you'll see that by...

Andy, thoughts and prayers for your pooch..

well i plan on making a very big dark beer. something black and beefy. i had a dog years ago, he was an evil soul. damn mean but had more personality than most people i have ever met. He was the dog i grew up with and has been gone 10 years now. He was a 105lb weimerainer. So the name for...

I drink dos equis special lager with salt and lime.. started doing it when I was served it this way on a very hot day on a beach in mexico. Its called a Chilada. A michilada has hot sauce added to the chilada. Something about the salt and lime makes it very refreshing. I can pound a sixer...

Three Toes Craft Brewery. About 12 years ago I had my foot crushed by a falling steel beam that weighed about 2200lbs. Needless to say it did some major damage to my foot. I didn't walk for over 6 months, craploads of surgeries, a bone infection, skin grafts, plastic surgery, yadda yadda...

I have a feeling this was me. :( about a month ago. I had about 9 boxes show up, all packed so well that you'd think they were shipping china to me. I looked at the packaging when it arrived and actually wondered how much that actually cost to do. If it was me, Forrest, you'll get it back...

I too am a first time AHS buyer when I popped my cherry a month ago. My 3rd kit is arriving tomorrow. Being in Houston, I get my stuff the day after they ship, so 2-3 days turnaround is really nice. My only gripe is I have to pay sales tax and you out of staters don't. BAH.. When I bought...

After your boil, before you pitch yeast, see how much wort you have in the fermenter. if you are low you can boil some water (just to sanitize it) cool the water as you did the wort then fill your fermenter up to just over 5 gallons, in my case i fill to around 5.25. Then pitch and shake...

I doubt you could have burned that much onto the bottom of the pot, and if you have less than 5g of water your wart should be more concentrated, and therefore higher gravity than expected. I'm not a pro by any stretch (actually a newb), so someone please correct me if i'm wrong.

Thank you for the reassurances!! I'll read it and try to be patient. But its very very hard for me.

And here it is a moment after pouring the entire beer in the glass without tilting the glass.

So I made my first beer and this is week 3. Its a minimash AHS Belgian Whit kit. It spent one week in primary, one week in secondary and today is the 6th day in the bottle. When I poured it the head went away very quickly. The color is a hazy straw yellow, but not nearly as hazy as I...

It feels like its the same guage on the bottom as the side wall. Definitely not a high end pot, but its big and I can do full boils in it without a problem. I like it so far. As I progress it'll probably end up being used for something other than my kettle.

So here it is, one day prior to bottling. Light aroma of orange and spices, light on the palate with a soft mouth feel. I can't wait to see what its like in a few weeks carbed and matured a bit.