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I have city water and sewer. The tap water smells strongly of chlorine, so i've never used it before to brew. We have a natural spring in nearby Berkeley Springs, WV which is free. I load up on it evertime im in the area. Last time I took 17 gallons. I brewed my first AG yesterday and it...

Has anyone ever tried the canned Arnold Palmer ½ tea ½ lemonade drinks? I wanted to make a homemade version. I made a 1 gallon trial of fermented ice tea a few months ago and it turned out well. I also added yeast to organic lemonade and nothing happened (too acidic I guess). So since this...

Hello everybody, On a whim yesterday, I brewed my fist AG beer in an attempt to clean out the brew closet. I was scrambling for some additional sugar and was torn between brown sugar and making homemade caramel. I went with 1 lb table sugar caramelized. Here's the figures: Caramel Pale...

I am brewing on the kitcken stove, which takes a while to heat up large volumes of water. I wonder if i could put the water on the stove to heat but also throw my wort chiller in the pot and run the hottest tap water i can muster through it at the same time in order to speed the process up...

Thanks for the feed back. Good to know that I am overboard on the pursuit of body. My extract beers seem a bit watery sometimes, even after months of aging. I went with crystal 60L to adjust the color just a bit and add some maltyness. If the Belgium caramel pils malt adds some...

Whaaaaahooooo. :rockin: If this has already been posted I apoligize. Good old West Virginia has finally changed the laws to allow beers with 12% abv to be sold within the state. Some retarded law from the 1930's restricted beers over 6% (catagorizing beer as non-intoxicating:confused:)...

Thanks for the feedback! You say this looks like a barley wine, I wonder if it’ll be too sweet? Maybe I should tone down the crystal. Racer 5 is a very hoppy ipa (maybe double) with a strong malt profile. I’m not sure what to say about efficiency since this is my 1st AG. I...

My first AG - Racer 5 inspired. I am formulating this recipe from other posts and info from around the web. This will be my first attempt at all-grain. I have various extract and partial mash recipes under my belt so I’m ready to try some AG. I am trying to come close to Racer 5 by Bear...

ok, thanks for the help. let me see if i got this right... i'd mash with 4.5 gallons of water and lets say i get 3 gallons out of the mash, the rest is absorbed by the grain. Then i can add 3 gallons to sparge with. Since the grain is done absorbing water i'll get my 3 gallons of sparge...

I have a noob question regarding the volume of water collected after the mash and sparge. Lets talk about a big high gravity beer. Say for example I have 15lbs of grain to mash. I would use about 4.5 gallons of mash water because of the ratio of 1lb of grain to 1.25q water. ok, then 1/2...

thanks for the info mikerlynch. has anyone ever tried oak extract?

Hello fellow home brewers! I've been reading a lot of information on how and when to add oak chips, I’ve even done one experiment (4oz medium toast French oak chips in secondary for 2 weeks in a stout) that turned out poorly (think eating a mouthful of playground wood chips :(). I am...

My lady loves Cherry Kriek and i'd like to make some for her. I tried the recipe below and it's good but came out on the tart side. I'm looking to make it sweeter. I used 2 cans of oregan cherry puree in the 2ndary, I guess I should have used what the recipe called for. Does anyone know how I...

i'm sorry i cannot completely answer your question but off the top of my head i know it will need to withstand temp of 170 degrees and i sure wouldn't use one that has served any other purpose. most grain bags are made of nylon so if the sock is also you may be just fine. my only concern would...

Welcome to the forum Goosta! Cheers! :mug:

Here is my rough draft recipe: % LB OZ Malt or Fermentable ppg °L 43% 5 0 Pale Malt, Maris Otter info 38 3 26% 3 0 German Rauch Smoked info 35 3 9% 1 0 Flaked Barley info 30 2 9% 1 0 Flaked Oats info 33 2 4% 0 8 Dextrin (CaraPils) Malt info 33 2...

I had a similar experience I thought I would share... Made a PM imperial stout. soaked 4 oz french oak chips in jack daniels for 2 weeks. then added them plus the few ounces of whiskey to the secondary for 2 weeks. I now have mulch flavored stout, wayyy too much oak. it also seems like the...

Hello. Contemplating adding smokiness and oak flavor to an oatmeal stout. A couple of issues I could use some advice on: Peat smoked malt or rauchbier malt? How much? I have been reading the threads discussing both. I understand peat malt is strong and difficult to get just right. Is...

Thanks for the input. I have just finished building a 10 gallon mash tun from a Gott cooler (thanks to flyguy for the instructions!). I would like to keep it simple and stick to single infusion mashes. I’m glad to hear that the step mash or decoction is unnecessary. Rauchbier is very...

I had been reading some recipes online that call for a 30 min mash in the 130's, then either (1)pulling a decoction for 30 min at boiling temps then adding it back in or (2)slowly raise the temp of the main mash to the high 150's for 30 min, followed by a mash out. i assume that the step mash is...