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Great articles. That answered a lot of my questions. Cheers ! Thanks again for the help!!!!

Awesome !! Im hoping that I can stock a small pantry cabinet with supplies to save on shipping and have ingredients ready to go at a moments notice. My work schedule is nuts so brew days are few and far between and it seems that I never have everything on hand. So does LME store better than...

Still in the beginning stages so keep it simple please. (kits, extracts, DME, and some BIAB cracked grains.....NO all grain recipes as Im not set up for it and don't plan on expanding) Got a hefe in the fermenter (love hefes) Love chocolaty porters with low hops, malt forward with...

Ok, Sorry for the rookie questions. How about I run 3lbs Wheat DME 2lbs white wheat cracked 1lb Dark wheat cracked 1. Will that be enough malt to make a proper wort? (original recipe had 3 lbs dme and 4 or 5 lbs cracked wheat) will this be too watery with only 3 lbs cracked wheat ...

Awesome replies ! Thanks. I will skip the krystal and go for tasty hefe. Once i have some inventory stocked up Ill get fancy and go long with some of these other recipe ideas.

Ok, This has been eating at the back of my mind..... I love chocolaty porters and I love wheat beers.... So Any idea if this would turn out to be a drinkable beer or a vat full of mud? Not so concerned about being true to a style. Just want something tasty.... ?? Will the wheat beer...

Ok day 11 in the primary fermentation stage. Its killing me. I have had suggestions to leave it for 3 weeks but I want to brew my next batch over the holiday. So, Should I transfer to the secondary bottling bucket and brew up my next batch? Any problems with transferring to secondary...

Well poo. So, Should I get another lb of dark munich and leave the chocolate out completely? The original recipe I was going from was ( I think) 3 Lbs wheat DME 2 Lbs Crystal Wheat ( substituted white wheat since they didn't have crystal) 1 Lbs Dark Munich wheat 1 Lb chocolate wheat Thanks...

Guess I goofed my order but here is what I have for a Hefe. 3 lbs Wheat DME 2 Lbs Rahr White Wheat malt cracked 1 Lbs Weyerman Dark wheat malt cracked 2 Lbs Weyermann chocolate wheat malt cracked 1 oz hallertau hops Danstar Munich dry wheat beer yeast. Since I over ordered the...

Looks like I will finally have a brew day coming up !!! Basement is a steady 64 degrees. I'm planning on 2 wheat beers, a crystal and a dunkel. My concern is the fermenting temp profile. 1. What is optimal for a rich tasting wheat beer with clove and banana hints? 2. Will I be...

Love this post! You are killing me. Still trying to carve out enough time to do my first brew but that beer sounds Fantastic!!! Ill have to book mark this thread and brew one up after I get a bit of experience.

Don't want to get into water chem at this point. Keeping it simple to start. Ugg. Boiling the spring water is an extra step I was hoping to avoid. Was hoping I could just stick the jugs in the chest freezer at the start of brew day and have them down into the high 30's by the time I was...

Im a bit confused..... Our water is crap. One day it tastes like mud, the next iron, the next it smells like the public pool so I was going to buy gallon jugs of spring water. 1. Will store bought spring water be the best choice for brewing. ( choices are distilled, spring, or "drinking...

Second or third 5 gallon batch we made a chocolate porter. Had an extra bag of amber malt and decided to put it in and see how high of an ABV we could get... Blew the lid off the fermenter and had chocolate foam all inside the pantry cabinet, and a foamy river on the kitchen floor. Scraped...

Cool. thanks for the replies. I do want some hop flavor in the beer but not the harsh bitterness. I know hops act like somewhat of a preservative and was worried that if I changed a boil profile it would make the beer more likely to go funky. I really like malty chocolatey beers like...

Not sure how to phrase this but here goes. I don't like bitter super hoppy beer. But I like a variety of beer styles as long as they aren't too hoppy. Can I jack with the boil times or put less hops in early and go heavier late in the boil to control the level of bitterness ? ex...

you guys are awesome ! thanks ! I would hate to have to pay shipping and wait 2 weeks for priming sugar.

Got my starter kit and ingredients to make 3 batches of beer ! Then I realized... I forgot to order priming sugar. :-( What are the Pros and Cons of different types of priming sugars ? Can you use regular cane sugar? Or does it have to be corn sugar? What about brown sugar for a...

Thanks Kev! Ill give that a try.

I just figured out how to get the Search Function to work on the recipe section of the forum.... Hooooo boy am I in trouble now ! Got a simple Hefe recipe on order. The ale recipe that comes with the kit And I am looking for a chocolate porter recipe that is on the malty sweet side...