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Yeah, if your beer is fine without it I would skip it entirely. When I have a questionably watery beer (in a test batch) I will add the maltodextrin but why thicken up a good beer with it?

Is that LME on the floor? I've seen recipes for cock ale... Now I guess it's time for that "Dead Mouse Stout"

It won't do you any good having a second fermenter without more beer... You should order another kit too ;) You have one good starter kit my friend. The valve on your brew kettle is going to make wort transfer a lot easier and you already have a wort chiller (the copper coil) so that is a big...

My walnut, cherry, and maple were hand selected by me from family friends who have property in Michigan and were only kiln dried so I know they are safe. I will look into the walnut issue, my LHBS sells all grains for $1.50 a pound so I am okay with wasting a lot of test batches. I have a...

Your yeast should be fine me on the other hand... I am not fine because I dont have a good recipe for Grodziskie. Did you use the recipe in your link or do you have your own?

I had poorly washed yeast that I pitched into wort about 2 weeks ago. I got ancy and impatient and after 36 hours of no airlock movement I pitched some dry yeast to good success. One yeast is going to out compete the other so the only thing thats going to happen is beer :)

Only use cheap when your filling airlocks with vodka! Do you like scotch? Get something you would enjoy drinking because youre going to be drinking it. In my personal opinion cheap scotch is to harsh except for lauders but I would get a smaller bottle of top shelf stuff.

I would look up a vanilla bourbon recipe and swap out the vanilla for blackberries. For a darker beer youre going to need more fruit than with a darker one Also +1 on the blackberry melomel (maybe make just one gallon of that) This recipe calls for 4lbs of blueberries. Now I dont know how...

I have actually bottle and capped off the TAD system, look up the we dont need to stinking beer gun thread and slightly modify that system to fit the TAD or adjust as neccesary for your growler.

I would soak the oak in scotch for the wee heavey, keep it scottish all the way around. But bourbon works for just about everything delicously dark and vodka for a flavorless base. I am still thinking some scotch with that oak my friend ;)

If youre kegging them then the time aged really doesnt matter (in the long term effect) if you naturally carbonated the beer then you would have to do less than 6 months for the yeast to still be useable. Since you are kegging however why not do it in intervals? How big is your ale? Maybe do...

I would totally do a blackberry bourbon porter. I thought of this on the way to work today its in now being added to my pipeline. Also a blackberry whitbier is always a favorite of mine.

I have been there and done that with both balloons and bread yeast. It is no beer yeast for sure but it will do its job. It is not going to taste top of the line but will be drinkable and be very unique. My suggestion is to not ferment them super long. Let them sit on the yeast cake with the...

I have alot of chips and chunks that are only good for highly detailed veneer work if I wanted to get fancy so I can drop them into some brews. I have bigger chunks I was going to cube up I do however have some completeded hand made guitar bodies and necks for sale still. I sold a few of my...

They use beechwood which kind of gave me the idea last night. I was comparing my oak aged beer to a bud and was reading the can and thought "what about..." and I looked in my garage and saw endless possibilities

So I used to build and modify guitars and amplifiers when I was unemployed to suplement my income and now have bulk excess woods just chilling in my garage. I have Snakewood, Purple Heart, Walnut, Cherry, Maple (both spalted and birdseye), ebony, rosewood, and several other. I LOVE the smell...

I am trying to get my girlfriend to join me in my conquest but it wasnt always male dominated http://brewess.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/history-of-women-brewers/ "According to beer historian Alan Eames, the religious myths of ancient societies credit the creation of beer to women. For the...

If you have the money to buy 55lbs of DME and youre going to use it, heck yes go for it. Like rifraf though I would break it up into smaller bags to prevent it from clumping but that stuff will store for quite some time. So depending on your brew schedule you could burn through it in a couple...

I am extremely sorry for your loss but I have to say thank you... I have this same saw horse that I use for building guitars and was debating on whether to use it for beer making too. I now know craftsman is not the sawhorse that I want working with my beer! Talk about a computer spaz... did...

I am extremely sorry for your loss but I have to say thank you... I have this same saw horse that I use for building guitars and was debating on whether to use it for beer making too. I now know craftsman is not the sawhorse that I want working with my beer!