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I have since bottled and disposed of a batch of this recipe. I ended up dry-hopping for nearly a month with 2oz of Cascade. The end result was a nice spicy, citrusy (grapefruity in particular) brew. Frankly, the batch tasted more like a 'Racer 5'. Well balanced and perhaps just a little on...

Mine's still in secondary, waiting to be bottled. Having a baby kinda slowed down the process. :)

I suppose you could also mash, then sparge as many times as necessary to get to your target volume. Sounds like you'll be on target if you mash once and sparge twice, but it's hard to say what your gravity will be.

How big of a batch are you trying to make? If you fill up the cooler to mash, then again to sparge, will you end up with the volume of wort you're hoping to boil? Also, your pre-boil gravity will be lower than the gravity at which you pitch your yeast, so keep that in mind.

Well, I guess it's been almost a month in primary. Time to bottle!

I scaled back the recipe for a 5 gallon batch. I'll be using: 8# Maris Otter 3# Munich 0.75# Crystal 60L Scaled the hops back as well. I'm hoping to brew this up tonight. Anybody have any suggestions for priming this? Dale's seems pretty lightly carbed, but I don't want to underdo...

well, since i tried this recipe for my first extract brew, i figured i'd give it a shot as my first all-grain brew, too. pretty much followed the recipe with one exception - i made my own invert sugar a couple of weeks ago by boiling up some sugar with fresh-squeezed lime juice.

Brewed another batch of this stuff a week ago. Didn't have any Lyle's (nor did the three closest Whole Foods / World Markets) so I subbed in 1 cup of molasses / 5 gal batch. I put the wort on a WLP001 yeast cake that had just finished fermenting a vanilla porter. Took a gravity reading of...

Brewed another batch of Orfy's 'Old Speckled Hen' clone. Put it on a WLP001 yeast cake from the Ursa's Vanilla Porter (Dry Dock Brewery recipe) and used molasses instead of Lyle's Golden Syrup. It's fermenting more actively than any batch I've brewed up to this point. I'm hoping that the...

So, I've had this bottled for two weeks now. It keeps getting better and better. Earlier samples had a much fruitier/butterier flavor, but the yeast seems to have cleaned up after itself quite a bit. I'll have to go pick up some of the original in a few weeks to compare. Either way, this...

Heh, maybe I gave you some of my gravity! Ran a batch of Dry Dock's (Aurora, CO) Vanilla Porter. I totally undershot the OG. Should've been around 1.060, mine was 1.042. No idea how it came out so low, unless it's because I finally did a good job getting the break material out of the wort...

"Holiday Cheer" from Papazian and EdWort's Apfelwein. :) Racked both to primary yesterday and they're churning away right now. Funny how much hotter the ale ferments than the apfelwein. Left alone, the ale is running at 74F and the apfelwein is at 66F. Looks like wet towel time for the ale...

I've got the juice, just need the yeast and added fermentables. That being said, I'm starting a 5 gal. batch this weekend. 14,848 + 5 = 14,853 gallons!

Thanks for the advice, kappajoe. Adding the extra LME and mashing the Crystal 60 made the ABV approximately 6.5%. A little higher than I was hoping for, but for a n00b experiment, I'll take it. I also realized that I did a really crummy job of letting the wort settle before putting it in my...

I'd be up for it too, no doubt! My first batch ever should be bottle conditioned in about 5 weeks (racking to secondary tomorrow)...which would be good because I'm busy with paperwork all this weekend (work permit / legal permanent residence for my lovely wife, who happens to be from Japan)...

Wow, lots of people on the boards are living in the area! I live in Longmont and work in Loveland. Would be cool to meet up sometime down the road.

+1 again on Dry Dock / Brew Hut. Going there for the first time (their 4th anniversary party) pushed me over the edge into homebrewing. I'm in Longmont and just ran my first batch this weekend. If I remember, I'll come back and let you know how it turned out in about a month!

I'm about to try my hand at brewing for the first time, and decided to go with the extract version of this recipe. I have everything that I need to brew this clone EXCEPT for the Lyle's. I bought 7 lbs. of extract but spaced on getting the Lyle's (mostly because I'm giddy about trying this!)...