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First brew of the season! A late-blooming Marzen... so, an April-zen! This will be my crew's 3rd all-grain batch, and we've decided we want to try a double-decoction in order to gain access to the pantheon of the brewing gods. Figuring that the decoction will add some caramelly-ness, I've...

Baaahaha... I'll have to make her a cider. She doesn't do beer. The best I can get is for her to sniff it and say "Yep, it's beer." But good point on that, once she's alcohol-enabled again I'm sure she'd welcome a cider made just for her!

Ha! Not like that (though I guess we could talk about what beer you'd want to be your kid's first...) Turns out that if all goes well, the ol' Cap'n and his Mate are expecting a little powder monkey (in August, so we've got time to plan and can do a long secondary), and I'm trying to figure...

Holy god, I am definitely going to be drinking my next brew out of a Bitchgobblet... damn that's fine.

If you can get like a big strainer to rest it in, and rest that on top of the pot (without melting it), you could probably save yourself a lot of trouble. (I don't know if this works for BIAB, but this is what I used to do for my partial-mash brews).

Ah. :) Good to know! I will now sit back, relax, and watch the clouds go by. Thanks guys!

Yeah, this wound up being a somewhat smaller brew than anticipated. We wound up missing our target OG by a lot (partly due to losing some of the first runnings onto the floor because a hose fell off, and partly because All-grain is still kind of mysterious and tricky). So, we let it boil down to...

Had a little lag on my Belgian Dubbel (about 30 hours from pitch to first formation of krausen, I'm guessing), but it seems pretty happy now. Check this out! Usually my krausens are flat and uninteresting but this one looks like what you see out of an airplane window. Apologies for...

OK, we've settled on what we hope is a final recipe, here. Hoping to have a nice rich Belgian but not incredibly sweet/raisiny (which maybe means fermenting a couple degrees cooler than typical?) 5 gal batch Mash: 151 F, 60 mins Target O.G.: 1.066 Target F.G.: 1.018 (6.05% ABV) Malts...

Looking through "Radical Brewing" I see a somewhat different Dubbel recipe. I know there's a wide range in the Dubbel style, but I'm a little confused as to what the components do. The one from RB has: 6 lb pale malt 3 lb Munich malt 1 lb Belgian medium-dark crystal malt. 0.5 lb aromatic...

Ahoy mates! Working off a recipe from Beer Captured, trying to more or less make the Westmalle Dubbel. I read in another thread that the Beer Captured recipe maybe is too much on the sweet/raisiny flavor, so my thought is to up the biscuit slightly and up the hops slightly. Slightly drier...

That is a great name for a brew... holy cow...

Oh yeah! Staying on-topic! Drank the second half of the Southern Tier Back Burner barleywine. Very tasty. Wasn't expecting the dry-hopping with the amarillo and centennial... not sure it really belongs in a barleywine, but it is pretty tasty. (I have mixed feelings about citrus-y hops...

Aaaahaha, got so drunk at Epcot... fantastic... enjoy it!

My standard spice mix for a pumpkin ale is cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, sometimes vanilla bean, and cardamom pods.

Yeah, that sounds fine to me! Let me know how it turns out, eh?

I have one of those small-ish Sanyo mini-fridges that we all get to use for a kegerator, though I've never converted it. I'd like to use it for things like lagering (or, honestly, just to be able to ferment ales at a proper temperature...) Is the Johnson Controls one [This one]the cheapest...

Brewing the Scotch Pumpkin this morning (gotta sleep first though, ugh)! I may bottle a mead as well if I need the carboy...

Ya, I don't mind hoisting a heavy pot, there's going to be like 6 of us tomorrow and we're pretty mighty! But in the future I'll go bag-less (which I guess means the valve and a screen tube). Does anyone have any idea how many points of OG I should expect from the sweet potato and maple...

Most definitely. Planning to cook both at 350 for 45 mins. I think for the mash I will put the potato/pumpkin in grain bags, to avoid sparging issues. (And actually I'm hoping to fit the grains in a really big bag in my cooler, but we'll see how that goes.)