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thats a good point. The last batch i did was a recipe and instructions, followed excactly, and the same thing happened. starting gravity was way down, but the terminal gravity was at 1.012. right on the money. I would take the number right after i mixed water with the wort to bring the volume to...

My light american lager extract recipe was 7Lbs light LME 8 oz light crystal malt 10L 4 oz honey malt 1 oz cascade @ 60 .5 oz cascade @ 20 (with irish moss) .5 oz cascade @ 5 (with bitter orange peel) nottingham dried yeast I didnt follow any recipe i just went into my LHBS and...

How would you split an extract batch if you were going to alter, say, some specialty grains or hops? would you just half the recipe and do 2 boils at the same time and then ferment two 2.5 gal. batches? im essentially at the same stage in brewing and i think thats a great idea! im going to try...

woops. i meant i added honey malt when STEEPING. :D

oh i forgot to mention that i did add half a pound of honey malt to the boil. i was mainly wondering if the taste of the beer going into the secondary will be similar to the final product (minus some fining that the secondary brings and the beer being flat). Im essentially trying to copy Dundee...

Noob Question! I have a honey brown ale in primary and im going to rack it over to secondary today or tomorrow. Basically im planning on sampling some when i rack to secondary and if i want a stronger honey taste, dilluting a pound or so and adding it to the secondary. Aside from it being flat...

hey all! I just dusted off my extract kit and brewed up a honey brown lager this weekend. Its the 4th batch ive made but i havent brewed in a couple years. Im stoked to get back into it and after a couple more extract batches im going to test my hand at PM! This site is awsome! TONS of info. :mug:

I saw these at a my local store too. I pulled a double take lol. I enjoy blue moon on occasion but i think it would feel like I was drinking Coors light if i had it in a can. : /