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Interesting... I've bottled many partial bottles over time and never considered it to be a danger zone nor have I had any exploding bottles. I have noticed sometimes these partial fills are very carbonated though... hmm...

you could make a pils with ale yeast or a kolsch

Mmm, thanks a lot for your thoughtful comments! Luckily what I added was actual coffee, not any ground beans themselves. The coffee wasn't overpowering in the sample I tried, but it definitely tasted like a coffee stout as opposed to a stout with coffee notes. (in a real world example, I...

I am brewing a modified Northern Brewer Imperial Stout recipe. to summarize their recipe: 12lbs Dark LME 0.5lbs each Roasted Barley, Black Malt, Chocolate - steeped 2oz Summit hops @ 60 min 2oz Cascade @ 2 min Wyeast Scottish Ale and Irish Ale yeasts I also added some french press...

Another Brighton, welcome!

And another one down... welcome to the point of no return!

Thanks TD! I cut out the roasted barley. New steeping grain bill: .5 lb Steeped Belgian Debittered Black Malt 1 lb Steeped Simpsons Chocolate I was thinking the pound of chocolate malt would help balance out the sweetness of the lactose and the belgian debittered black malt will just help...

Hey guys, I am creating my own stout recipe and I'm not sure how much steeping grains I should use. I am aiming for a pretty big, bold brew here... Northern Brewer lets you order 1lb crushed quantities of grains to steep, do I need to reduce the quantities for this recipe? What is the...

Go for it. I just made 3 related beers: all summit hops - one with 6 lbs pils LME and cry havoc, one with 9 lbs organic light malt (6 LME and 3 DME) and belgian schelde yeast, and one with 9 lbs pils (6 LME and 3 DME) and california ale yeast. I'm really getting to know what summit hops are...

If you are a hop head, never worry about overdoing it with hops. Especially dry hopping because you will be working with aroma, not bitterness.

Thanks everyone for the advice - this morning, I think I have settled on Apollo 13 Ale. Using 4oz of Apollo hops (in addition to 4oz of Warrior), this contains 13 lbs. of fermentables. The beer is shooting for the moon, so to speak, in terms of ambition and lack of worrying about the...

Don't rush a Kolsch (or any beer for that matter). If you're not sure, go buy a new fermenter. Good to have more around anyway, keep more things in the pipeline.

I have used Boston tap water on a batch with great success. However, Poland Spring is just my favorite tasting water so I use it to brew now. MMMmm

Killin' it over there dude!

Belgian Barn Burner is a pretty good name too.. Triple B Ale!

I appreciate the mild trepidation, but no worries, hop heads over here.... I recently bottled a Belgian Pale that was not quite this ridiculous but was based off of 9 lbs organic light malt and 6 oz summit hops and it is exquisite. I just don't see why the higher AA / citrusy type hops...

an ale with: 12 lbs Amber LME 1 lb blonde candi sugar 4oz Apollo hops 4oz Warrior hops Trappist Ale Yeast ??? Tasty brew's calculator estimates this at approx 383 IBUs and 9.5ish% ABV. The Belgian Imperial Amber Alpha Acid Hop Experience? WTF is this? My homebrew operation's...

This happened to me on 2 recent brews and the resulting beers are incredible. Enjoy your stronger than expected beer.

Wait, why would you set yourself up for an epic high gravity brew and then try to stop the fermentation? Really? RDWHAHB.

Strong Belgian Pale Ale Ingredients: 6 lbs organic light LME 3 lbs organic light DME 6oz Summit Hops Belgian Schelde Yeast Hop Schedule: 1oz each @ 60 min 45 min 30 min 15 min 5 min Dry Hop in Secondary I also accidentally made 4 gallons instead of 5. To be perfectly honest, I don't brew...