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+5 gallons Yule Gruit 60,538.5 gallons. Happy New Year!

This will not quite work out. Your "tarp" is their "blanket fort."

It is worth dry hopping that beer. I find that hop flavor and aroma disappears as if someone turned a switch at around eight or nine months, but is vibrant at one to two months and strongly present at three, four and five.

Bit by the barleywine bug? You should be fine to brew 5 gallons of 1.110 in a 5 gallon pot. Be prepared to have it darken, and be sure to adjust the hops schedule since high-gravity wort doesn't extract from the hops so well. Here, have this...

I keep a sink full of ~3% unscented laundry bleach in hot water and just store all my tools in there on bottling day. No muss, no fuss, just rinse before you use it. Now that I think of it, I have bottles to scrub right now.

One of the problems this beer is facing is that with a mash temperature that high the beer has a lot of dextrins in it. This can be good; I can say I appreciate a thick brew like that, especially when I am also hungry, but I can assure you the thickness won't go away. As far as tasting like a...

Hi all! I am brewing Yule Gruit (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f78/yule-gruit-213381/), a high-gravity bog myrtle ale that I really love. I wanted to enter this beer into a local competition, but then, disaster! My living room hit 80*F since we were heating with a woodstove, and the WLP028...

This was a fun little experiment I did to play with Brewer's Gold hops. Maybe they were from the U.S., maybe from the U.K. Either way, they are never discussed for use as an aroma hop, but they produced this herbal and somewhat minty, "green herbal" tasting, faintly blackcurrant-scented Bitter...

This sounds interesting, but I get a 404/Not Found on all of your links and can't read them! Is it just me?

I have a couple questions! When making this, is Juniperus virginiana safe to use? most of the available juniper around here is J. savina, which is toxic. Also, what character do the boughs add to this that the berries don't? Could I get away with using black tea and juniper berries and spruce...

I will remember that I said "Will-uh-mett" until now the next time I hear someone saying "AL-buh-NEE" instead of "All-buh-nee" and be less irked. Saying "SHEN-ek-TAY-dee" instead of Schenectady I will still prosecute to the full extent of Upstate Law. TL;DR: I think this is a problem...

I've heard of something called malolactic fermentation, using Leuconostoc bacteria. The bacteria will consume malic acid (and maybe your remaining sugar, Idk) and excrete lactic acid. Some winemakers use this to reduce the apparent acidity in their wines. but I have no experience with it...

+5gal Best Bitter = 45,752 (Mead, Wine, Cider, Malt Liquor, Graff and/or anything with EtOH in it brewed at home for drinking is homebrew)

Hmm... how did you sparge it? Too-hot (or too much) sparge water might pull out polyphenols/tannins from your malt. Was this the hopped wort or the sweet wort that tasted off? And do you think that this might be something that will age out? *disclaimer: I'm fairly new to this too, so other...

Oh, hey, check it out! I missed these replies. e.e Glad the "oak soak" worked out for you, 50! I am drinking a 1-year-old Kings Nutz on its bottling birthday. It's still sweet, but not as much as I remember. Not even a touch of boozy smell... the nose is maple, bananas [I brewed this last...

+5 gal Mild, 6gal Wit = 40,649.5

+6gal Witbier, 5gal Gruit, 5.5gal Bitter, 1gal vienna SMaSH, 1.5gal Amber Spruce thingamajig 31231 + 19 = 31250 ...unless wine counts too...

I was hoping this actually was a light lager. I would name a light lager 'Big Imperial Coffee Vanilla Stout,' and serve it in cans to unsuspecting guests. :D I've never heard of this kit brand, though. What's special about it?

From the horse's mouth: http://www.saranac.com/page/ubu-ale I think the stats they show pretty much cover the questions you have qualitatively. I am no expert, but I'd say it uses one of the darker crystal malts somewhere between 3% and 8% and chocolate malt maybe about 5%, at a guess (I've...

How odd. My LHBS double mills their grains as a matter of course (coarse? :P). Adjust for efficiency, I guess...