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Go to chestnuttrails.com and click on beer tab. There's a basic ale recipe that you can tweak the heck out of to get want your taste buds want. Leeinwa

You'll be surprised at all the great flavors you can get with the chestnuts. I've even surprised myself at times. Rex Halfpenny who publishes the Michigan Beer Guide says the chestnut beer I sent him is the "most beer like GF beer he's tasted. leeinwa

I bring the wort mixture to about 160 and add amylase with chestnuts and allow to soak for a day. You'll see that it remains warm for a long preiod due to the enzymatic actions. When you taste the chestnut chips before use, you will find they a sweet taste to them. Chestnut flower taste like reg...

Just go to the wine making supplies. It's a common used ingredient.

If you get the brix to 15% you'll have an alcohol poteniality 8% Abv. Sounds like your added fermentables will give that much. Remember brown sugar is brown because in has not had the molassas removed to become white sugar. It's usually made from beets or cane. You'll probably get a taste of...

I got it from my brother who owns a large winery but it's available in most places that sell beer and wine making supplies

I've used Safe Ale [not certified GF] and use Turbo Yeast for high ABV [ 19%] in my liqueurs. All of Lallamend's yeast are GF and they will give you a letter of certification stating that. 2/3's of the fermentables will be from the corn sugars which give a new clean alcohol. Iris Moss is...

The recipe I have on www.chestnuttrails.com under the beer tab is being updated. I should have that done this by Saturday. It's been a progress thing since I started about four years ago or so. Got lots of ideas from experience and others in the last couple of months. On Saturday check the www...

You can boil the chips with anyout problem. Just be sure to let the wort cool down to 150-160 or so before you add enzymes. I let them set for 24 hours with enzymes. It will take a while to cool down because of chemical action of the enzymes. They are not high heat stable. Chestsnuts won't glob...

Great!! Don't drop that. I did and had to epoxy flip lid back on but it still works.

Guess I haven't got the private mail thing fiqured.

Check your private mail. You to Matt Leeinwa

You might want to put the powder in in a glass of cold water and mix it before you put it in wort. Kind of like making gravey. You never put your thicking flour directly in hot drippings. Alas, one big clump.

When due incooperate this into your brewing process? Availability? Where is good source? Thans Leeinwa

By the way, I ment to mention that if you use the dark roasted chips, you might like the taste so well that you won't have to use any other flavorings.

OK. Northern Brewer has pure cholcolate extract for flavoring beer.

I make light, medium and dark chestnut ales only. The ABV is usually about 7 % and that is determined by the amount of corn sugar I add. Looks good to me. I'm not a master brewer by any means. I never brewed any beer from my collage days until I was 65. Back incollage it was in a plastic garbage...

Does it look good? I assume your question was pretaining to color. Yeah! It looks great. Nice rich dark color with a roasted nutty chocolaty flavor with a slight lingering hint of citrus. [Cascades] To bad I don't drink any more but I do a lot of mouth wash and spitting. Even my wife likes it...

I just went and out and got a bottle that I put up on 5/30/09. I used my dark roast chips with that. I have some 1" cordial glasses. It would have probably made 19-20 with the the scale using one of those, but its a little larger that the 1/2 dia. they reccomend. That's about as dark as I want...

That's alright. You were just excited about making the best tasting GF beer around. In a couple of weeks the hydrometer will just be a memory of the past. Good liuck Skol