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I made the stupidest mistake ever and this sucks because I was really looking forward to this beer. So basically I got my boil pot mixed up with the pot that I had let my grain bag sit in which was a secondary pot that I heat up my sparge water in. I thought I forgot some liquid in the bottom...

I happened to be brewing something very close to his recipe this weekend. I've never made a stout so i wanted to go light on the chocolate and roasted barley and be able to scale up if I need to. If I feel it's too light on the roastiness, I will likely brew Hokie's recipe next time, but a...

I just brewed an extract DFH "inspired" pumpkin ale. I used the spices I had on hand. It turned out a little too spicy for me, and a shade too dark for what I wanted. I used 2 tsp of McCormick's pumpkin spice and 1 tsp of McCormick's cinnamon spice. I will probably use 1tsp of pumpkin and 1 tsp...

Also, I'm planning on brewing this Milk Stout next weekend after bottling the red rye ipa. Any thoughts on this recipe as well? Brew Method: Partial Mash Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 5 gallons Boil Size: 3 gallons Estimated Efficiency: 65% ESTIMATED STATS: Original Gravity: 1.055...

Just dry hopped with the ounce of willamette and ounce of cascade leaf hops. It looks a little dark in the fermentor, but I had poured some into a shot glass when I moved it into the secondary and I think I will come pretty close to the dark red/amber color.

I'm interested to know how this turned out having used all that carafa II. Was it dehusked carafa?

Just called my lhbs. They did not have the Fawcett Crystal Rye that norther brewer had. The Fawcett was 70 - 80L. But they do in fact have weyermann cararye which is 57-77L so in the recipe I estimated it at 65l and 33ppg. I may or may not switch the aromatic for biscuit. I'll probably stick...

I ordered my supplies last week from NB and now I'm really wishing i went with a crystal rye/biscuit combination rather than crystal 80/aromatic. I'll have to check my lhbs this friday, if they have both crystal rye and biscuit, I'll go with that. Otherwise, I'll be sticking with crystal...

Thanks guys for the feedback. I will check if my lhbs has crystal rye to replace the crystal 80 and give it more rye flavor, but really, I'm OK with 14% rye. If they have the crystal rye, I would probably drop the biscuit and aromatic though. As for the SRM, are you sure it's 26? I used both...

Thanks for the feedback. I think I'll go with a full 2lbs of rye then, and would it be OK if I reduced the 2-row to 2lbs? I just feel as if this partial mash is getting huge. I'll check if my lhbs has crystal rye which I doubt and I'll see about replacing the crystal 80 with it. I also added...

Thanks again for the feedback. This has been updated with the final recipe, OG, and the actual AA for the hops that I used. Spring Mill Red Rye IPA Brew Method: Partial Mash Boil Time: 60 min Batch Size: 5.25 gallons Boil Size: 3 gallons Actual Efficiency: 64% STATS: Actual Original Gravity...

I just brewed this extract version: Safale US-05 6lb Northern Brewer Organic Light LME 1lb Organic Carapils .5lb Organic C-20L 1oz Amarillo pellets @60 1oz Simcoe leaf hops @2 1oz Simcoe leaf dry hop last 5 days in the fermenter It spent 10 days in the primary, 2 weeks in the secondary, and...

If I had this beer I'm sure it would be my favorite fall seasonal as well but I've literally only had two pumpkin ales before, Sam Adams, and Smuttynose. How does dfh compare? Anyway, it's more that I'm just nervous about trying to brew this with having never brewed a pumpkin ale. Also I've...

I changed up the extract recipe a bit. DFH is traditionally very balanced (I love how balanced their 90 minute and 120 minute are) but having never had the punkin' ale, and this being my first pumpkin beer brew, I'd rather start off lower and work my way up to more ingredients rather than over...

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Yeah I've read a lot of back and forth about whether you can steep malts like flaked rye and flaked wheat. Midwest supplies has some extract kits that include some flaked rye, basically encouraging their customers to steep flaked rye. All the reviews on it sound great. From what I've read it...

For the extract recipe it says to steep flaked wheat. I've heard so many things about whether it's ok to steep certain grains or not. What would you guys think of substituting 1 pound or 3 lbs of the light dme for wheat dme. From what I've read, steeping this type of grain like this won't add...

Here's the extract version I'm going to try in 2 weeks when my Uinta Wyld clone is out of my primary. Safale US-05 Dry Yeast Grain .5lb Carapils .25lb Aromatic Malt 9lbs NB Rye LME Hops 1oz Perle @ 60 1oz Amirillo @30 1oz Amarillo @ 15 1oz Amarillo @ 0 1oz Amarillo dry hop last 7 days in...