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What do you think about boiling the vanilla beans in water to sterilize them before adding them together with the water? Is there any reason not to do this?

Never mind, I was wrong, it is not crystal. Sorry!

I have a follow up question - PintOfBitter wrote "The pale ale malt is almost certainly not a crystal malt, but a base malt that would need to be mashed in order to use it. I'd leave it out." The pale ale malt looks to be processed in the same way as the other malts and therefore, I believe, a...

I also am drinking my first beer brewed solo, sitting next to the fermenter with my second, and eating some mabo tofu with it. Really spicy mabo tofu overpowers this flavorful brew somewhat, but it is still good.

Ar, I lack the proper PC to run such software. Ah well. Thanks for the tip anyway!

Thanks very much! I appreciate your thoughtful and detailed comment. One of the reasons I am brewing beer right now is I can't afford to drink beer otherwise - it is about 3$ per can here. So, what I am saying is I may not be able to afford this Beer Smith software, and tempting myself with...

Hi everybody, I started my second batch with Morgan's Dockside Stout kit and the accompanying Master Blend roasted dark malt extract (can see the package at: http://www.sakeland.net/?pid=21438922 though it is all described in Japanese). The master blend thing is 1.5 kilos and the kit itself...

I ended up leaving it in my friend's bathtub / closet, and it turned out delicious, for some reason tasting like a white beer maybe. I added cascades toward the end of an hour boil of the Black Rock New Zealand Draught kit. No idea why it tastes like this, but happy with it even without CO2...

Thanks for that picture. Do you have any idea how many frozen 2-liter bottles, or whatever size bottles, make sense in this temperature range (30c - 24c ambient temperature) for a 20 liter batch in the type of bucket you recommend?

Hi everybody, I have read some threads and not found an easy answer to this: I just started a batch using Black Rock NZ Draught with some cascades thrown in 55 minutes into a 1 hour 4 liter boil. Sterilized things, things went well, got good fermentation - really good fermentation...