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i've done a breakfast stout that my friends rave about and i think it's my best recipe yet....the coffee flavor is definitely significant, but i love coffee. i added about 8 oz to the secondary and came out fine. i think the way to go is cold steeping or straight adding, but not brewing hot...

just heard back from the store...sounds like i'm ok...wheeeww...talk about alcohol abuse! :) The manufacturer doesn't recommend using any instruments above 200 F. When a liquid is at a boil (212 F), this is when a thermal shock is most likely to occur and could possibly break the glass. This...

so during the end of boiling i realized my floating thermometer broke at the tip and some of the pellets sunk to the bottom? it's not a mercury thermometer...is my batch now wasted cause the pellets were at the bottom during the boil? i hate to waste a batch of beer, but not worth getting...

i like your theory here...is enough to get the coffee flavor though? a local hombrew shop told me i could get away with dumping .5 - 1lb f coffee grinds into the secondary and let it sit for two weeks and the grinds would settle to the bottom.

i recently brewed up a breakfast stout kind of clone going with the double chocolate, oats, and stout flavor. i'm looking to add coffee beans to the secondary when i go to rack my beer to add a subtle mocha/coffee flavor. question is: how much coffee should i use if i want it subtle where...

quick question about amount of raspberries...it's currently out of a season and the cheapest i found was 6oz for $3.99 - if i go with the 4lbs (which i intended) that's the price of a beer recipe alone (and then some) - could i get away with only doing 1-2lbs? or what if i switched to...

i didn't know that...awesome! thanks monty!

my basement holds 60-62 on average but about a month ago it was dipping to 58-59 cause we had a little cold weather rip through ...i just read alot about storing/fermenting at 70 ...i'm a recent convert from mr.beer and just put everything in the basement and never had problems with my beer. as...

hey hey, with spring wetaher, it's hard to keep a constant temp in my upstairs rooms (where i was beginning to store/ferment) till i could move down to basement. so yesterday i headed down to DC (from jersey) on my day off to support my phillies. the weather at home was supposed to be 70ish...

i'm going to the store today to pick up cheap vodka to sterlize the tubing and blowoff....and i'm definitely racking my beer once the choco stout i have in the carboy is bottled (and of course when SG is same for two days in a row)

haha...exactly the same. got it for a xmas present as a joke because my buddy and i said we're going to start our own brewery so we wouldn't have to work anymore. would have never gotten this far without that mrbeer kit which got the creativity going. now i'm spending more $ on bigger batches...

i hear ya:) thanks for the tips brother! these hops are out of control on this hazed and infused clone!

for now it's just a tiny tiny smount of krausen rising into the airlock. should i still do the blowoff or should i just watch to see if it gets worse then do a blowoff? thanks!

man this looks tasty. i'm still a noob, but i'm gonna try this with few slight modifications. like adding coffee and maybe a sprinkly of cinnamon too. why do you only boil your extract for last 15 min of boil. don't you usually steep/sparge grains for 30-45 min at 155, then add extract, bring...

hey guys! i'm still kind of noob to the 5 gallon brewing (after converting from mrbeer for a year and a half) glad i did! anyway, my second batch i brewed up is boulder's hazed and infused clone. i noticed this morning that foam/head/partial hops have rose into my airlock. i opened my...

hey hey, i've been trying to sift through these forums to find a mini mash recipe (using LME) ..i've seem to have found all grains and DME. anyone have one they'd like to share? the weather is breaking and i'm about to have room for a new batch in the primary. any help is appreciated. this...

is was actually red star. i'll have to go back and look at the label again. just nailing down some basics (learning from experience) and moving forward. i don't know if i'm addicted to beer or the art of brewing beer :)

first off a big hello to you homebrewers. i'm a newbie 5 gallon maker converting from doing a year or so of the mr.beer basics. friends of mine finally got me to upgrade and GLAD i did. with that, i'm starting to get more into the process and fine tuning fundamentals (which i know vary pending...