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I just left the grains in while I brought it to a boil. As soon as it started the first hints of boiling I pulled the grains out. I agree with the not boiling them part. Not sure what it would ultimately do to the beer, but i dont particularly want to find out. On a side note, my parents live...

That should say tweaked, not tweeted...

I have no idea what the beer you are trying to emulate tasted like, but I tweeted a recipe from my LHBS and have had amazing results. 3# DME 1# flaked oats 12 oz Carmel 120 grain 8oz Roasted Barley 4oz Chocolate grain 1.25oz UK E. Kent holdings (boiling) 1oz Willamette (finishing) 3...

When the wife and I make yogurt we heat milk in mason jars up to ~165 in my brew pot full of water, then we let it cool on the counter for a while until it is <~100 pitch some Greek yogurt, stir it up, put a lid on it and put it into a cooler with some super hot water. The results are pretty...

Oh, I also filled the fermentor with water up to the 2 gallon mark.

This ended up tasting like spiced orange juice. Not a fan. But it is in bottles now, and I am hoping that aging it will make it taste better, but I am not holding my breath. After I filled all my bottles I had a little left in my fermentor covering my yeast cake so, thinking "what the hell" I...

I made a Vanilla Oatmeal stout with Tonga vanilla beans from beanilla.com, I did the same length split technique as mentioned here, but I soaked the beans in Wild Turkey American Honey. Not sure the booze imparted a whole lot of flavor to the beer, but I am not a Vodka kind of guy. Fun fact...

Turns out the whole thing doesn't taste at all like I envisioned. The OJ and pineapple juice did combine to make a nice tangy flavor, the cider and apple juice made a nice cidery booze content. But the the other juices take the edge off. I probably should have put more cinnamon and whatnot in...

Balls. oh well, I guess I will see what happens. Worst case scenario I dilute it with more cider or apple juice until it becomes pallateable. My hope is that it will work together in some amazing coctail of deliciousness, but i am new to this game. It tasted pretty nice at the onset, so I just...

Ingredients: .5 gallon apple juice .5 gallon cranberry juice .5gallon orange juice .5 gallon pineapple juice .5 gallons apple cidder 1 stick of cinnamon 4 whole cloves Smidge of ground nutmeg. Mix all of the above in a suitable container for fermenting, pitch your choice of yeast and...

Thanks guys. It is good to know that I don't have to do it... but I want to follow this recepie pretty closely (as it is my first 5 gallon batch) and I would still like to know what you think. SG is at 1.014 so I have a bit before it is time to transfer...

Airlock has stopped making sweet bubbles, so I was going to pop the lid today anyway to take a reading, so I could just throw those bad boys in when I do that....

So should I just crack the lid on the primary and throw in my Vanilla? I read a couple recepies that called for putting the vanilla into a secondary and then the beer.

Question; I just bought a 5 gallon kit, and I was wondering if I needed a carboy for secondary or would it be acceptable to use my bottling bucket as the secondary. I don't see any reason I shouldnt be able to, but I figured I would ask. It is a Tonga Vanilla Oatmeal Stout, incase you were...

Not sure if this is the right place for this, and if not, please redirect me, but my buddy came up with a fruit fly killing cocktail. Basically its a bowl of Apple juice, Apple vinegar and soap (to break tye surface tension of the death cocktail) it works pretty well, but im not sure if the...

Thanks guys.... Now if only I had thought to ask this question before I took the weeklong trip to Florida.... Clem, cowboy is some cheesy Mr Beer brand of American ale. I'm really only trying this yeast building thing to see if I can do it. I'm pretty stuck with mr beer for a while (lack of...

So, im trying my hand at building a starter. I read all that St. Papazian had to say on the matter, and I couldn't put any wort in with the fresh harvested cake from my Mr.Beer cowboy such and such, so I boiled the bejeebies out of some brown sugar. I know this isn't the prefered method, but its...

Turns out I'm not bottling tomorrow. Pros, cons, exploding beer, oxidized beer, I'll wait, just to be safe.

thanks... Now I'm torn. Silly me, I shouldn't have told people I would be bottling tomorrow. Bollocks. Maybe I can make it air tight... Or set up an argon or nitrogen blanket... But that's a bit excessive for a little MrB keg, dont you think?

Quick questions, is there any harm in letting my beer ferment up to 3 weeks? And what would happen if I bottled half at 2 weeks and the other half at 3 weeks? I know the longer I ferment (to an extent) the better the beer, but I'm looking for a sort of baseline for this new addiction of mine...