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I tried the recipe forum, but didnt really get a response.. So I'll make a separate thread for this! I'm trying to make a christmassy, gingerbread-ish ale. These are my ingredients: 1 Coopers Dark Ale Kit (yes, I base my beer of a kit..) 2 pounds dark dme 2 pounds brewing sugar 2...

I have a similar question.. Going to brew a christmassy thing based of a dark ale, and wondering about the spices.. How much of cloves, ground ginger, ground cinnamon, ground allspice and fresh orange peel would be good?

I would love some advice on my recipe! #104 in this thread :)

Thanks! I now have some ideas on how to handle this! :mug:

Alright, so it sounds like I should just get another bucket then.. Would it be a good idea to get another regular fermentation bucket, drill a hole, mount a spigot in it and have a bottling bucket/secondary in one? I know this reduces the benefit of the secondary some, but its better than...

yes, right out of it with a racking cane/siphon thing.. i have a fairly low budget/ limited space going on (being a student), but it has turned out nice before.. I just never used THIS much hops.. probably 2 oz cascade and 2 oz pilgrim.

After three weeks in the primary its time to bottle my (I)IPA. I assume this will be fine even though the airlock is bubbling since i now have an SG of 1011, which is kinda on the low side.. However, I heavily dry hopped this thing.. and there is a fairly massive yeast cake too, which isnt...

Alright, I know I'm a tad on the late side, so this will be a fairly light christmas ale.. I'm planning to brew on sunday, so I already got most of my ingredients. However, I dont really know how spices in beer tend to turn out, and how much to use of each.. So, here are my ingredients; 1...

I found out that my hydrometer is five points off (after testing it in water). And then when I re-tested the weizen again (after shaking the hydrometer well while in the liquid) and got a 1019, effectively giving me something like a 1014. So I bottled them. However, there was a lot of...

yes, bathroom is like five degrees warmer, at least.

I just made it from a kit with a few pounds of lme.. the OG was 1042, so the 1024 i got out cant be right? I also tried swirling it a week ago, without it starting up again.. On a side note, I did use a blow off for my double IPA that is also in the fermentor right now.. That one had an OG...

So, two weeks ago my weizen started fermenting, and went on happily for a few days, and then slowed.. I was going to bottle it today, but the FG is 1.024, which is WAY to high, right? What should i do?

I dont have access to any pre-isomerized hop extract.. but would a hop tea work?

I didn't add any extra, no.. Would a hop tea be too late? Then a couple oz it will be! Any recommendations on how to avoid my pellets from clogging up my auto-siphon on bottling day?

So, I've just started brewing in my little apartment and went with Coopers kits, because they only require a medium sized pot and very little special equipment. However, the Coopers kits are a little boring. So on my first pale ale kit i experimented heavily with some 2 oz cascade hops, and...