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(Sorry for being gone from the forums awhile, work has swamped my free time to the point where forum reading became non-existant. But I am back yo!) That's right. I got my Robobrew in last month and my nipples have been VERY hard as I brew beers from it with mass gusto! So far two beers down...

Going to brew an experimental IPA. I was wondering what a good beer base recipe would be as I do not brew IPA's regularly. I am.... making a garbage DIPA to be straight with you all. I have a bunch of left over hops that I want to mess with and I do not personally like IPA in general (I'm a...

Soooooooooooooooo, I have been playing around with Agave Nectar and Coconut Sugar in place of turbinado, brown (unless flavor desired), honey, and syrups. I brewed 3 beers over the holiday and each one stood out as cleaner and bolder. The sugars were initially used to enhance the abv of the beer...

Ok. So the Doppbockale is done and on tap. It came out pretty good. It is a very light bodied dark beer using the ingredients listed above. I sat down and tried it with dopplebocks and surprisingly it isn't too muddled down because of the ale yeast. I will admit, though, that it is not crisp...

To answer your yeast question I believe there are two options, though in all fairness I make beastly quad Belgian regularly with Mangrove Jack M31. For yours you could go with Safale BE-256, BE-134 or Mangrove Jack M41 or M47. I have had wonderful results with Mangrove Jack yeasts and have used...

Yeah, I went nuts with the grain build like a *******. But I can take another sample and see if it different. If not, like you suggested, I could get some more LME/DME to bring it up. I could also try this again with a completely different grain build entirely since I am not throwing in the...

My nipples are hard just hearing about it. Per say, any info on the IBU's of this golden beauty?

Carafa II tends to be dark. I used it in my Doppbockale beer and it made it pretty dark. Then again I used a lot of it like a *******, so that is not as big of a concern in your case since you're using so little. It usually gives a roasted dark malt flavor, so in your case it could work. I would...

Your recipe looks great but some food for though next time you brew this guy. If you want to add anything awesome to it (depending on availability) you could do a secondary fermentation with a date or golden raisin swirl. I'd say one pound of dates (with seeds removed) or one pound golden...

If I might add... you are using Safale US04 which is more typical for a British ale. So why not go balls deep with British Hops. I'd say 1 oz Fuggles for 60 minutes and 1 oz East Kent Goldings for 30 minutes. You could reverse these hops if you'd prefer the EKG over the Fuggles. Also, if you're...

So the beer has been brewed. It is darker than the darkest butthole. It looks like a shwartzbier or stout for the most part and it has a pretty good taste when sampling the wort. The OG was lower than I was hoping at 1.054... but it is what it is. This beer was done as a partial mash. I went...

Just as an update: I am still a bit behind on my brewing schedule due to certain issues coming up with family from the hurricanes. b^^ Let them come out to Cali to drink good beer and recover but I am still going to make this dopplebock with ale yeast soon. I have the ingredients for it and I...

Passedpawn - Part o' ta plan. Was going to get two of them to compare them to it. This beer will not be attempted till September, since I do my brewing low-tech and without Air Conditioning in California, but I am planning to order the grains and everything in August to be ready for it when the...

Hey all, One of my next scoldable attempts is making a Dopplebock with ale yeast instead of pilsner yeast. Now you might ask yourself "Why would this Jacktard do something like this?". Well, for the sake of experimentation, I want to see how different the taste is. Now, per say, I have...

I know I'm late to the party on this. But I have brewed some Belgian Strong Ale at 13% and used some Mangrove Jack dry yeast, M41 and M31 respectively. Brewed, transferred to fermenter, pitched the yeast directly into the wart, 2 packets. Had a runoff tube instead of a typical airlock and it...

Thanks for all the welcomes! :D Just posted one of my Frankenstein beers to be openly mocked by the brewers here since it is a Dragon Fruit Beer. :D

dThis recipe has gone through about 4 different variations, each one works mind you, but it really depends on what you want it to taste like in the long run. I will post the way I usually make it, but will post the results of the variants below and their tasting notes that I have kept. This beer...

Hey all! Can't wait to share some of my "experimental" beers with you all! :D