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Terrible news for me. I love Beamish and that brewery just kicks ass if you've ever been. Just terrible.

You know I thought I might have been adding too much when I did the full ounce but I really like the scent it lends a beer so I figured I'd go bigger with it not figuring it would lend a significant bittering effect.

So three weeks in the bottle now and my version of this is coming out bitter on the pallette. I'm wondering if I over did it with the bitter orange peel because I went light on the hops both at the beginning and end of the boil using Willamette to bitter and Saaz for aroma. I'll post up the...

That's a great idea for a label, well done.

Really great site there made even better with the sight of both the Eagles and Phils. Adding the recipes was a great touch. :rockin:

Well I baked 4 loaves over the holiday last week and they all turned out great. I used the basic bread recipe adding some butter to the mix on two loaves and olive oil in the other two. The flavor was more pronounced with the olive oil but I was wondering if anyone here could recommend other...

3 oz of French oak cubes. I gotta admit I thought about pulling the oak out of there earlier and going right to the bottle after about 4 weeks as the oak was heavy but I didn't have any bottles handy at the time. Then I like you figured most places leave their beers on the wood for over 6...

Starting out I did 2 kits and followed the directions that came with them to the T. After that I realized I could add alot more to that brew pot then what was on the print out from the LBHS. As a baseline a kit is a great way to learn a style but after you've had success with one a couple of...

I have used rum instead of bourbon but did it with a robust porter instead of a RIS. I soaked my oak cubes in the rum (dark) for 2 weeks prior to dumping both into the secondary and then let that sit in there for close to two months. When I went to bottle I had the sweetest, oakiest porter I've...

That is a great site. I used a couple of the tips there and the kneading video is priceless. I just punched mine down for the first time and now letting it rest for another 90 minutes. At this rate I should have bread by the 3rd quarter of tonight's game.

I just spent 2 hours looking up how to make bread for thanksgiving then I come back here and see this thread! Don't know why I didn't look here first. I'm baking for the first time ever tonight.

Having done it with both Jack, Jim Beam and Maker's Mark I find Jack to be the better tasting bourbon when it comes to adding it to beer. Lie others have mentioned add it at bottling and taste it as you add it. I tend to go a little more than 12 oz personally but I like to really taste the...

Two years and my auto siphon has done nothing but work perfectly. Now a buddy of mine in that same amount of time has gone through 2 of them. Treat it right and it'll treat you right I guess.

I either put the ipod on shuffle and it'll serve up some Snoop Dogg followed up by CCR and then the soundtrack to the video game Oblivion. No Christmas music allowed.

+2 on the Oxiclean, in fact go to dollar store and grab the imitation stuff there, works just as good. And never use a brush on the better bottle. It scratches easier than you think.

At this point I think you might be best served saving it for the next stout and adding it in the boil.

Just sit the bag(s) in there and give them a stir ever once in awhile to keep the liquid moving through them. If you start to see your temp dropping set a low flame to it and you should have enough to maintain the temp for the remainder of the steeping time.

I'm guessing you added both of them right after getting your first boil following your steeping. Early on in my brewing I found like the others here have said that adding your LME later in the boil really aids in the overall beer at the end. My first Belgian Wit came out looking like it should...

$50 a case in GA? Hell I could buy it up here for $20 a case and ship it down there for less making a small profit. Side note... word has it that a couple of years ago the local Bud salespeople were asking local bars to give out a Bud instead of the Yuengling Lager when people would walk up...

I add both my oak cubes and the bourbon right into the secondary and let it run it's course. I like the bourbon flavor to be stronger than most like it thus the reason why I toss it in. I let it all sit in the 2nd for about three weeks and then bottle it up. The bourbon becomes more pronounced...