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im glad i wrote down how i screwed up so i can repeat it if necessary

good idea on the taste test maztec, take a 60 min boil of 1 oz hops and taste test with many boils of coffee and compare

heres my recipe input greatly needed 2.65 lbs extra light dry extract 3.25 lbs pale liquid extract 3.1 lb caramel malt 1 pkg irish ale yeast .5 lb of cracked espresso beans 60 min boil 16-32 oz espresso in secondary to taste whatcha think?

Hey its no fun if theres no chance to f**k it up right?

you could break the bag down into 50 1# zip top bags, easier to portion, store and keep dry

im going to treat the coffe as hops here i think, boil some to start for its bittering, and then add espresso from my espresso machine in secondary for flavor. I think im going to omit all hops in this one and see where it goes. ill post my recipe later hmmmm adding steamed milk and make a...

yeah and then i can come home from work to see her putting out the brewkit fire she made with all my homebrew

Looks like i may have fixed my beer. I got almost no conversion on my mash, and after i got done wiht the boil i noticed the "spent" grain was sweet from finally starting conversion, so i added it to the fermentation bucket. I got great bubbles about 24hrs in, and it went steady for 2...

yeah cascade gives a great grapefruit nose and flavor when added in the last 10-15 minutes of the boil, along with an additional dry hopping. UPDATE my beer is a fighter i tells ya! sg is down to the bottom of what the recipe says it should go to, and its still bubbling every 30 seconds, i...

update, Fermentaion has slowed to about 1/2 of its peak now, got a sg of 1.011 far lower than predicted by brewsmith, its supposed to bottom out at a min of 1.011 and its still going quite strong. as for the beer itself.... WONDERFULL! its got a good malt flavor, with a great balance of...

i think thats its exactly. it like "paging doctor beer paging doctor beer code blue in the fermentation bucket"

howd it turn out? i think your attitude about beer changes based on the outcome of such a fubard recipe. My recipe is turning out awsome. after having an original gravity of 1.032 with an expected final at 1.015 i was very worried, but its been rapidly fermenting for 3 days with no decline...

dude z987k you just made my year with that beer style guidlines in your signature... that is like everything i wanted to ever know about beer... well not really but its helpfull

unfortunately i cant lager for 5 more months, summer is ale time for me

if you use the right hops you can get a nice grapefruit flavor, that could work well, citrus is a good compliment to garam masala

hmm esspresso sweet stout? how much espresso would i need?

good point

are you using glass carboys or plastic bottles or buckets, i wouldnt trust anything plastic for a year, it'll oxidize the beer

My jamaican brother in law was jsut over for my last brewsession, and he brought red stripe, Just one taste and i knew i had to try and clone this. anyone got a recipe? even a style to shoot for woudl be great its unlike most comercial beers ive had.

id say go with a high gravity ale, that will be a nice welcome home at the end of your tour