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can i do it in my mash tun?? it is one of the those converted big coolers. i feel like there might not be enough grain for such a big area?????????

my recipe calls for 7.5 lbs of maris otter. i have right now 3.6lbs of maris otter already cracked. 3.3 lbs of golden pilsner liquid extract and light dme about a lb. can i use these three ingredients to replace the one and just add the liquid and dry at beginning of boil. is this a bad...

not sure if that is a joke or not about the amber. maybe it will be good. turns out i am gonna have to wait to brew this so i could go to lhbs and get chocolate malt and brown malt and add it to the recipe. good idea or bad idea??? j

ok cool. i just took a hydrometer reading and it was 1.000 i am guessing it needs to go lower than that but how low will it go??? the recipe says 4 weeks in primary is that normal?? j

but it is not on the walls at the top where there is no cider it is on the walls almost all the way down to the bottom. still normal???

so there is krausen during carbonation?? does that mean after you bottle you need to watch the temp of the bottles while the carb up???? never heard that before. they were outside on the screened porch and it did get hot.

Made a batch of ed wort's applewein 2 weeks ago. checked on it today for the first time and there is what looks like lots of yeast stuck to the inside walls of the carboy all over. i moved it a little and it looked like it started falling off. is this normal i have never seen anything like...

anyone ever seen this happen. i think it was yeast at least. it was brown and kinda gross. i noticed it when i opened the bottle on the inner lip then when i looked in the lid it was there too. could be something else i dunno. i got lots of ideas why this happened but maybe it is common i...

So i lost my printed out recipe and drove all the way to the lhbs and had to try and remember my maple pecan nut brown recipe. I ended up getting carapils instead of chocolate. not sure why but prob because a similiar recipe i was looking at had that in it. so all my grains are milled...

i am trying to use beersmith but it got too confusing at some point and then it erased the recipe 3 times after i saved. not sure why but anyway here is the recipe http://hopville.com/recipe/542206/northern-english-brown-ale-recipes/maple-pecan-nut-brown first off i want to do a 4.5 gallon...

it wasn't hot when i measured. and there wasn't boil off i just didn't sparge with enough water i guess. i wasn't keeping track very well and came up short. but it is much closer. that stinks there is no other way to find out other than o.g. i just made another batch of something and forgot...

what's the recipe??

any luck with this recipe. did you make it. did it taste like shiner bock?

can you explain the "salts to match edinburg water"

can i add it to secondary fermentor??? i was gonna use about 2-3 cups of toasted coconut do i need to boil or something like that??? does it have any flavor?

one other thing i didn't weigh my honey i used 16 fl oz. not sure if that means i used too much or not enough. i know a pint of water weighs a pound but a pint of honey who knows?

i think i will try a one gallon batch while my fermentors are all full. sounds cool

here is the recipe i used http://hopville.com/recipe/1342086/robust-porter-recipes/panama-honey-porter i can cut and paste if you want. i added 16 oz of honey and boiled for 60 min. not sure about the 1.080 i did add a 1/4 -1/2 gallon of water to make it up to 5 gallon batch. so it...

ok. orignal was 1.080 final as of right now is 1.017 so 1.080-1.017= .063 .063 x 131 =8.25% does that make sense whereas the one i bottle at 1.020 1.080-1.02=.060 .60x131= 7.86% wow that sounds really high. the o.g. was supposed to be 1.056 and i got 1.080 does that...

so how does it taste? anybody else that made this recipe got any comments on taste??