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Look up 3 Floyd's Gumball Head or Lagunitas' Little Sumpin Sumpin clone recipes. Both are good examples of American Wheat beers and very tasty!

It depends what you use to filter your grains. When I used a metal braid inside a cooler I always did it because the wort was so full of grains. I wasn't worried about off flavors I just didn't want the wort or beer loss. Now that I do Full Volume BIAB I don't(and can't) do a vorlauf and the...

We named our first Porter! :).

For me brewing is such a hands off event, there is so much waiting and watching. I just make sure I do the brewing when the wife is home. I have three kids 4.5 years old and younger and I still get in a brew a month and drink 1-3 pints a day(one with dinner and two after the kids go to bed)...

I live in Oak Grove right off the Ponds Golf Course! We are pretty close!

You loose hop efficiency by adding water post boil. A partial boil is not ideal, but can still produce good beer as long as you adjust you up your hops to counteract the water being added.

An ounce at 60min 10 min, 5 min and flameout. Also MO or Golden Promise might be a good choice for the malt(if that is an option).

I just finished one that was CTZ and Cascade in the boil and dry hopped with El Dorado. Probably one of my favorite IPA's to date. Fruity from the El Dorado and Cascade and nice and dank from the CTZ.

Go for a true NE IPA. Do a two stage whirlpool hop addition. One at 180 degrees for 30 minutes and one at 145 degrees for 30 minutes. Then pitch 1318. Do a biotransformation dry hop(dry hop on 3rd day of active fermentation), then a second dry hop after fermentation is over. Depending on...

Could the bitterness you are tasting actually be a carbonic bite from bottle conditioning? How was the carbonation? I know when I taste a beer that has too much carbonation I get a harsh taste that I could see being perceived as being too bitter.

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Add them to the secondary. 24 hours before you are going to add them crush them, add one crushed camden tablet and a little pectin enzyme. This will kill any wild yeast(camden) and break the fruit down more and help the finished beer clear(pectin enzyme). I just did something similar with 6...

Notty for the suedo-lager at cool temps or more estery at high temps. I also just used Mangrove Jack's M44. It's supposed to be a dry version of the PacMan yeast. The first beer I did has shown good results so far(Oatmeal stout went from 1.059 to 1.014 in 4 days and dropped very clear)...

If I'm going for a malty beer where I don't want the hops presence at all, like an oatmeal stout, I would go with a magnum or hop extract only at 60 min. This creates the bitterness to offset the sweetness to create a balance. You don't need a flavor and aroma addition of you don't want the...

Try it without the vodka first, I've never had an issue with a sticky mess after the boil was over and I have used up to 7 ml in a double black IPA.

Here is the link to the bulk Hop Extract, you can buy a big pack of syringes from Amazon: http://www.yakimavalleyhops.com/CO2HOPExtractCan_p/extractco2cans.htm For iBrewmaster I created a hop with the following settings: Alpha 2.75, Beta 6.00 and HSI: 50%. I played around with these settings...

I use Hop extract for all of my beers now for bittering. I find it is very neutral Based on the 10 IBU's in a 1.050 5 gallons of wort I figured the Alpha of 1 ML is 2.89%(I use that calculation in my homebrew recipe calculator when designing recipes 1ML=1 oz). For my low IBU beers I will use...

Thanks for the reply, you basically outlined my exact thoughts. I've never brewed a Dubbel, and I've had mixed results with Belgian beers in general, so I'm nervous about getting the proper attenuation and making a sweet beer. And you are right about the Porter, it would have to be more of a...

Hello! In October I bought 30 pounds of Wild Plums. I washed them, then put them in the freezer. Last weekend I used 24 pounds of the plums to make a Plum Melomel with 12 pounds of locally sourced honey. I now have 6 pounds of wild plums in the freezer that I'd like to put in a beer. I...

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