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Nice job, man! Do invite more people... but keep the beer-to-guest ratio the same. What's next on the brew list for you?

The trub that stays behind is part hop-stuff (if, like me, you use the hop pellets), part yeast, and part various other crap that floats around, I guess bits of grain and such? If you really like your yeast you can "wash" it to get rid of the non-yeast stuff and keep yourself a permanent...

Haven't bottled yet, but it looked promising when it went into primary: 3.3 lbs light LME 2 lbs. light DME 1 lb honey (clover in this case) .5 lb crystal 20 malt .5 lb honey malt .5 lb carapils .5 lb American 6-row 1 oz. Cascade hop pellets 1 oz. Saaz hop pellets 2 sticks cinnamon (3...

Oh man, that looks tasty. Nice and big and beasty, enjoy it :-)

As an extreme example, the Hatch-Battener Barley Wine I made about 3 years ago is vastly different now from the way it tasted then. The bitterness was very bracing then, and unpleasant - now it's smooth, and balances the malt wonderfully. I am well pleased with my brew :-)

I have used a buckwheat honey for a dunkelweizen (one of my very early brews), and it was quite nice. The raw honey has a bit of a barnyard aroma to it, but that doesn't carry through into the beer. It adds, as far as I can remember, a bit of "stout-ishness" that will work well in your beer. I'd...

Go to "bee" back, John! And Paul, I like my old avi too, but I figure it's time to do a better job of branding the whole pirate thing.

Update: Final recipe, as brewed. It's fermenting now, so we'll see how it turns out, and I'll test it before entering it as an official recipe. Dei Gratia Thanksgiving Dubbel 2.5 gallon batch - small storage requirement Partial Mash - 40 mins at 150F: 2 lb Caramelized pumpkin (fresh pie...

As far as temp control: I just (on Saturday night) discovered something clever. I put my carboy inside a brew bucket, and dumped about gallon of water in the bucket. It makes an insulating layer of water about a half-inch thick all the way around the carboy, and the yeasties seem happy so far...

Well, if I might make a plug for pumpkin, though it will echo what others have said: 1) There is, as far as I can tell, a definite color difference. There is a beautiful orange/red hue that comes from using real pumpkin (and definitely roast/caramelize it). 2) It does taste and feel...

Even though this is not a one-liner, I did come up with the first post-modern/existential joke: A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Why the long face?" ... The horse says "Well, I just got laid off, I gambled away my savings at the track, my wife wants a divorce, and to top...

Belgian Table beer :-) Big ol' jug of 2% abv... heh.

Sweet, I can read that partial-mash thread tonight for homework. Also, I picked up the Homebrewing Companion (I think that's what it's called), and Papa Charlie mentions using a wire hanger for those of us with electric ranges as a way to keep the wort from scorching. I'm trying it out...

Sweet - Rico, I did not know that, about the flour being convertible starch. I mean, when I say it out loud like that, "Flour is convertible starch," then yeah I should have figured it out, but hey.

Would just like to add my 2 cents. My first brews were in an apartment, and now my wife and I are in our first apt, a 2bed2bath thing (I had a blissful couple of years in a townhouse, but ah well, those times are gone)... The nicest thing is that it has a relatively small footprint. If you...

...Sure, I'll take a poke into this thread... (and wildly thread-jack, most likely...) Leaving aside the danger of accidentally poisoning yourself with ergot, what I find very interesting is the role of alcoholic beverages (with or without hallucinatory substances) in leading people toward a...

Thanks Bird, good to see you again! Old Sock, thanks mate, I'm just partial-mashing it (alas, still a stovetop extract brewer), so I'd just put it in a grain bag at the beginning. I think this baby might be ready to go, I'll see if I can pick up ingredients tomorrow unless other folks have...

Excellent, these are questions I am glad to explore! (Because I actually don't have any idea...) 1) What is a typical ratio of 6-row to adjunct, as far as getting enough enzyme to convert the starches? If I have 4 lbs of vegetables (And I could probably change that to 2 lbs), how much would I...

Thanks for the welcome! It's nice to see the old faces, and the new! This weekend I'm out of commission, for the Jewish holiday, so I'm doing a mid-week brew. In the next couple of days, I'm going to go try the pumpkin/sweet-potato dubbel, and hope like hell it turns out. Dei Gratia...

I dunno if this is the recipe you were looking at, but I did do this a couple years ago and enjoyed it tremendously: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f76/i-yam-what-i-yam-sweet-tater-ale-21212/ I suggest using SP in the mash/partial mash, and my strategy has been to include some 6-row to try...