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I have seen pumpkin recipes on here with all manner of hops included. Magnum, Hallertaur, Northern Brewer, Goldings, Mount Hood, Fuggle, Liberty, Saaz, Horizon, the list goes on! Anyone have a definitive opinion on what is best?

Let me preface this by saying that I am very new to homebrewing, but that my beers have been coming along, and in order to keep SWMBO on board, I will be dabbling quite a lot in the fruit department. Also, at the moment I am entirely an extract/steeped grain brewer, and also brew 2-3 gallon...

What kind of strawberry flavor do you get with this method? I am trying fruit for the first time and have read a lot of ways to skin the cat but this seems to make the most sense.

This sounds interesting! What kind of flavor do the cranberries impart when used like this?

So generally speaking then after the first few days of fermentation I can relax on my religious exchanging of cold ice packs for warm ones? Insomniac: for what use is the pectic enzyme? And I agree with you, I have to at least be able to say there was some real banana in this brew at some point!

For one reason my LHBS unfortunately doesn't offer the canned puree for brewers, and baby food is everywhere. Also, the organic aspect of many these baby food's is appealing. There also seemed to be a lot of different baby food's to choose from, for example, I think I saw banana and strawbery...

Any update on the use of McCormick's "Imitation" banana extract? Am considering a moderate use of this myself, in case by bottling time my banana brew seems to have missed the mark.

If you are trying to use fruit in your brew, this seems like the perfect ready to go stuff. It is already puree'd and surely pasturized to high heaven. Plus, there is plenty of organic selection as well as many interesting fruit combinations if that's what your looking for. It's also...

Thanks everyone for the input. I am definetly going to see if I can get my hands on some of the WLP 300. My only concern with it though is that I don't really trust my noob methods for keeping the primary at just the right temperature to get the desired effect. Have been using a swamp cooler in...

Am very new to brewing, and have limited space (am currently only brewing 1 gallon batches) and access to ingredients. That said, SWMBO would really like some banana brew, so I thought I would give something really basic a whirl: 1# Briess Bavarian Wheat DME 1# 20L Crystal Malt steeped .5...

So I just bottled my first batch! My question is; is there any visual evidence of the carbonation process? I used some clear bottles as my beer is stored in utter darkness, so I was just wondering if there is something I should be looking for over the next week or two that will tell me all is...