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Great thread that I will bookmark. Heading to Chicago for the first time in August thanks to my wife's CME. She'll be in conferences for 8 hours/2 days, and I'll have time to kill...

I batch sparge. All: Being that this is in the Recipe forum, let's get this back on topic with recipe-oriented discussion, variants, results, etc... A lot of the other questions can probably go here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/ Thanks!

Gotta love WLP300: (having trouble embedding this... click for video) This eventually filled the blowoff pitcher:

Ahhhh come on... You're pulling my leg. Literally... every time you get a.... beer. :fro:

Sounds about right for the process for an extract batch, yes.

I used the exact grain/hop bill as you listed in post #4, above. The only thing I changed was the yeast. I went with WLP007 since I'm not lagering. Fermenting cool (58F), but I don't have time to lager before the Bacon Fest. Label: Yep... That's a bacon mug! :rockin:

Absolutely...The smell and the taste are right where I want them to be. When I saw this recipe, my first reaction was that it's too much smoked malt. But it's not. I am super excited for this to be ready. I used the cherrywood and the beechwood that Northern Brewer offers.

Brewing 5 gallons of this right now for a local Bacon Fest for LLS. The mash smelled effin' great!

That is a very badass solution for 3 gallon kegging... Wheels = spinning.

In the time since I posted above, I have made a blueberry stout which is not very blueberry-ish. I used 1 lb/gallon... Next time I will use at least 2 lbs/gallon. How did your "blueberryness" turn out? Also, what was the base style of the beer? I am thinking my bb got lost in the roastiness...

Crap.... I just got a C&D letter from Bell's too.... Also from Family Guy. :D:D:D

That is fantastic!

For this, I go 1 week primary, 1 week 2ndary with the juice. But read your hydrometer. Wheat beers = best consumed fresh.

Shoot a little high with the gravity to counter? Seems easier to add another bit of base malt than to reduce the juice... However, if you try it, I'd love to hear how it goes. Pics too, maybe.

In that case, I'd be tempted to up it. 8-10 cups maybe? I have not had 21As... Really wanted to get some last time so I could compare. When I first tried to do this, I found that they used 400 lbs of melon, and with the size of whatever their system was, I came to 6 cups/5 gallons somehow.

I would just swap out extra light dme for the pils and wheat malt extract for the wheat. It's not a one to one ratio, but I don't have that handy. It's an easy google though.

And it's Paddy because Patrick is really (and fogive possible misspelling, but) Padraig, right? So..... St. Padraig's Day?

I don't know... Don't see the need though. Seems like it might drive off aromatics.

Interesting... While it was conditioning, I kept it in a plastic storage bin to prevent leakage. Well, every time I opened it, it smelled glorious. So beer smell was getting out. Do you think the plastic is too porous to hold carbonation? I conditioned it with the spigot on... It did not...

I'd actually use the locks more to prevent myself from accidentally opening a tap when I change a keg out of my keezer (yup, it's happened) than to prevent my 2 year old from hitting up a tall cool one. With Flomaster on training the kids well. We have gates at the top and bottom of the...