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so i just put my first hop plant in the ground yesterday. my dad and i bought a 5 year rhyzome (kinda), and were able to get 4 full plants out of it. i'm letting the 3 small plants establish a root system in our greenhouse, but i decided to plant the 5 year because it was quickly outgrowing...

gah, i looked for it, i swear. then i typed it into google and got the NBH forums. sorry for a repeat thread :x and thanks a bunch, rsmith.

all right, quick question. so i rack off from the primary ---> secondary, taking precautions not to suck up any trub, and then pour what's left over into a jar? i guess my question is where you draw the line between 'trub' and 'reusable yeast'? does that trub harbor yeast within it? and...

Wait, are you asking why your beers are inconsistently carbonated or why they have a chalky taste to them? If you poured your carbonating sugar in one area and didn't stir it around, I believe that might be a problem. I've heard it likes to settle at the bottom, so some of your beers can be...

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Much apprec, guys, as usual :]

hey guys, brewing a porter, and since my LHBS doesn't have carapils 3L, i'm going to use maltodextrin to increase mouthfeel and body. it's a 60 minute boil with DME and a late LME addition. hops @ 60, 30, 5. Thanks! -size

i'd have loved to be more complex in this, brim, but i'm brewing on an extremely tight budget so im stuck to as few ingredients as i could

Well, I read (you gotta understand im a bit inexperienced and most of my knowledge comes from reading) that a Porter should use ~1 pound of chocolate malt, plus the CM available to me is only 338 L, so I thought I was doing just about perfect as far as that goes. Regarding the crystal malt, I...

all right, here goes. i used beersmith to help me, but i tried to do most of it on my own. i'm no pro, and in fact there might be some glaring oversights in the recipe, but that's why i'm posting it here:] Maycause Porter 2.5 lbs Light Dry Extract 3.3 lbs Light Liquid Extract 1 lb...

gah, thanks so much FMC, brewing on a budget is the only way to go for a poor kid like me:x i only have a 3gal and 10gal stainless steel, android. also i'm living in Ames right now. i get the feeling there's quite a few Iowans around these boards...

don't get too cocky :p a lot of non-beerophiles will say it's delicious just because it's a homebrew. but at least it means that it's not a BAD brew:] congrats!

Ah. much appreciated man, gonna try it out tomorrow :]

okay i addressed this in a previous thread, but i still need a more in-depth answer. all right, let's say i want to brew this Cutthroat Porter Clone from O'Dell. and let's say I don't want to use extract, but go all grain instead. but i don't have the set up for all grain. can i...

now i've heard bleaching could have detrimental effects on the taste of the brew? or is glass immune to that?

All right, so I live in central Iowa, which isn't ideal for hop growing, but is tolerable. Plus the rhyzome came from someone who's been growing them for... well at least 5 years, and it's Cascade, which I understand to be pretty hardy when it comes to climate. Anyway, it's covered by...

ha, that answers that. thanks a bunch guys. stay tuned for my "A Ton of in-depth Yeast Questions." topic in a few hours! :p

Much appreciated guys, those answers were fantastic. But I still AM curious, in question #4, I was wondering what the 2ND number was. i understand the measurement is in lovibonds, but why do they state it twice? is there a caramel 10 20 L? or a caramel 20 10 L?

First of all let me start out by saying "thank God, i finally have a decent understanding of malts". Secondly I want to thank you all in advance for (hopefully) answering my long-winded, somewhat amateur, very specific questions! Give it a shot:] If any of you have the book, How to...

I've seen Sierra Nevada's PA called "california piss-beer", "disgusting", and plenty of other things. I think it's just fine. Now I'm not claiming it to be one of the better American PA's, because it isn't. And i'm not saying it isn't slightly overpriced, because it is. But it certainly...