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I know you were just agreeing with me, but I have to disagree with you (and my previous self). It looks like hop utilization isn't affected by wort gravity anywhere near as much as people thought a couple years ago. In the last two years most of the 'big names' in homebrewing (Palmer et al) have...

So, figured that one out on my own. On my previous beers I didn't aerate the wort nearly so well and there was a lot more foam at the top that I thought there was (about a gallons worth). After it settled down this morning I noticed that the wort level was actually closer to 4 gallons. After...

Having the batch be 10-20% large would probably account for a 10-20% reduction in color...

Were you doing a full boil? 2oz of 14.2% Columbus would only be ~100 IBU if you're doing a 5 gallon boil. In the 2.5 gallon boil the instructions call for it should be about half that and around 75 IBU for all of the hops (should be 2oz at 60min, 1oz at 30min and 1oz at 15min or later I...

Brewed this today, or at least something close. The LHBS was out of Black Patent, so I substituted more Chocolate Malt and they didn't have WLP004, so went with WLP007 and made a few more changes here and there. Final Recipe: Steeping Malts (steeped at 150-160F in 3 gallons water for 30...

If I cut back the chocolate malt and black patent to .5 lb and increase the Crystal 120 to .5 lb, I'm coming in at 41 SRM, which is still nicely in the range for a sweet stout. This will be my first stout, so want to make sure I don't rob it of the "stoutiness".

Any feedback? Would love to get some feedback on how to get some good caramel flavors into a stout.

Great to see the updates. Hope it comes out okay!

Edited: Removed information on hop utilization vs wort gravity that I'm pretty sure might be wrong.

Just a note, if you're going with 'hoppy = high IBU' then dry-hopping isn't going to do anything for you. Dry hopping adds to the aroma only, no bittering. If you're going with 'hoppy = aroma' then I'd definitely go the dry hop route.

I've created a couple batches from extract kits and looking to expand a bit and create (or at least modify) a recipe so I can tailor it a bit. I'm looking to create a stout with a caramel flavor profile. Ingredients Extract 3 lbs Light DME - during boil 3 lbs Light DME - at knockout Steeping...

That doesn't mesh with Palmer (which bases his statements on empirical evidence) at all who specifically states that hops utilization goes does as boil gravity goes up. I don't have the book in front of me as I'm travelling at the moment, but I was just reading that section a couple days ago.

This is looking real interesting, looking to brew a caramel stout. Did anyone try out the recipe above? Any thoughts on hops that might match well?

To the best of my knowledge LME and DME are fairly exchangeable (after taking into account that DME is more potent per pound than LME)... if you can't get fresh LME use DME. If you wait until flameout (or a few minutes before) to add the rest of your extract you'll decrease the gravity of your...

A RIS is a great beer, but definitely not a beer for a beginner! (Spoken as someone that is definitely a beginner) Most kits are fine, especially considering they really are just taking a recipe and putting together the ingredients that you could buy for yourself separately if you wanted to. My...

As brtisbuck said, your largest difference will be in your hop utilization. With increasing your boil size and not adding all your extract at the beginning, the gravity of your boil will be lower than in a smaller boil or if you added all of your extract at the beginning. This means a hopier...

Not exactly the most knowledgeable person around, but if you want to add some vanilla to your Irish Red, I'd probably go with adding a vanilla bean pod or two during secondary or the last week of primary if you aren't doing a secondary.

I had a banana split stout in a bar in San Diego this year; pretty sure it was the Thomas Creek Banana Split Stout (though not certain). Regardless, it looks like Thomas Creek also does homebrew kits. Might be worth contacting them to see what kind of yeast they used in their brew. I wasn't a...