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I wouldn't use instant. Choose a freshly roasted bean with low acidity. Sumatra is very good for this. Go to a local roaster. You also want a lighter roast that will impart less oils and acids into your beer, these are what kill the head. We have two very good roasters in my city, and one...

Things have been going very well for the last half a dozen brews or so. Consistent, decent efficiency, no major mistakes or screw-ups. Then last night happened. Get done with the entire sparge process and dipped into the kettle for a hydrometer reading. I fill the tube, set the hydrometer in...

Bartenders always look at me funny because I often order two different beers for myself at the same time. I learned during wine trainings that side-by-side tastings allow for comparison and a reference point that improves your ability to identify differing flavors and aromas in a beverage. I...

So I accidentally mixed in the flaked barley in the hopper with the grain to be crushed. Now I'm trying to sift it out, and this sucks. What will be the consequences of putting some of the flaked barley through the grinder? Just more likely to be a stuck mash? RDWHAHB?

SWMBO's who have a penchant for IIPA's, sour ales, and abbey style beers are expensive to go to the bar with. My SWMBO loves these styles. But honestly, it's better than early in our relationship before she learned the magic of beer and I was paying $10 for a friggin' fruity martini that she'd...

So has anybody who has brewed this beer gotten good results with head yet?

Hmm. So the Breakfast stout, which contains flaked oats, coffee, and chocolate, is going to be battling a lot of oils. Recipe being discussed here. Would it be feasible to also add in flaked barley or even carapils to this recipe, or what might be a solution? The recipe already calls for...

New information is also confirming the suggestion to add the cocoa nibs in secondary. I suppose this would require increasing the amount of nibs to get the same effect. Any thoughts?

Okay, so on that note, the Breakfast stout has flaked oats as 8% of the grainbill. Same effect, so no flaked barley needed?

it's for head-retention, right? Don't almost all styles want good head retention? So why don't we always use it? Can somebody illuminate for me when this malt is appropriate to use and when it's not, and in what amounts? I've never used it before but always wonder about it because I love...

Also: I WANT HEAD. (insert obvious joke here). Do I add cara-pils or wheat, and how much?

Inspired by the Founder's Breakfast Stout BYO recipe, but scaled down a bit in an effort to not be blitzed by breakfast time (I do literally love coffee stouts for breakfast). Wondering how this will pan out. 1) I'm mostly worried about the coffee and chocolate additions playing nicely with...

Okay, I am getting ready to brew this. I think. I figure if I brew it now it will be ready for the first giant snowstorm of the coming winter. I have tried this beer once and loved it. However, I am a bit concerned about the alcohol. I am one of those guys who always wants to make a beer a...

I'm going crazy. There's so many different recipes I want to brew. My favorite part of brewing is recipe formulation. I'll spend hours tweaking a recipe to get it just where I think I want it. But then I write more recipes than I ever get around to brewing. Like right now--I'm torn between...

Twice I've broken it by trying to pull off the tubing. This last time resulted in cutting open my finger on the jagged plastic. Is there any tricks to getting the tubing off without pulling pulling pulling *snap*? The other time I lost a siphon to morphing from being set in hot wort.

Just broke my third auto-siphon. I love the ease of the auto-siphon...before I purchased my first one and was trying to create a siphon with a racking cane and tubing I found it awkward and difficult to do in a sanitary way. I know a lot of members of this board have given up on the...

Awesome response! Wow, I didn't expect that.

The i and the e are still transposed. Nein, darfst du nicht buchstabieren wie du willst! Sonst kommen die Buchstabierungnazis und erschiessen dich! Bitte korrigieren, denn Deutsch ist ja die reine Goettersprache! HEFEWEIZEN. I love the stuff.

+4 (stupid boilover) 2025

7 hours after getting the Haus Pale into carboy I went downstairs to check on it and it is already swirling and whirling under a big krausen. The basement is about 70 F right now and the brewmometer on the side read 75. I quickly submerged the carboy in water and added a frozen bottle of water...