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I made 5 gallons of 1.135 old ale a year ago that is just finishing up oaking. I had under aerated and under pitched WLP007 as my primary yeast and ended up at a FG of 1.055 (I drank to much on brew day...). I wanted to go lower so I made a 1 liter starter with WLP099 and pitched it into my...

I was using Briess Organic-C 120L and Crisp Maris Otter. My boils do tend to be pretty violent and I usually end up with a rate of 1.25 gal/hour loss rate. I do almost get some amaretto from this brew.

Tasting notes: Poured clean deep brown with no particulate. Smelled toffee and caramel with some hints on dark fruits. Tasted a bit one note of caramel and toffee with a bit of alcohol astringency at the end (it must have gotten a bit low on the final gravity). No anise found... I'm...

No worries on the post MrFancyPants I am going to crack one of my remaining four open tonight and get some current tasting notes. I will report back. Half the reason for my angst here is that I have 44 bottles of a second batch 4 months into bottle conditioning. Same recipe but I aged...

I asked about the legitimacy of my barkeywine recipe and if anything in it could come off as anise. Both of those things are the title of the forum... Why the negativity?

I think I always knew that was the answer. The hard part for me was that this barleywine was what I considered my one of my best beers. Then the amber I threw together at the last minute to get into the competition got a ribbon. I guess, its just luck of the draw some times. I am still...

I entered my first brewing competition this year at the MN state fare. Among my entries was a barley wine I brewed a couple years ago to what I thought was dead on style guidelines: 1.100 OG 1.022 FG 50 IBU 90min boil Mash 152F single infusion 98% Maris Otter 2% Caramel 100% East...

Overdue update... After doing some more research I decided against using champagne yeast at this stage, given that it won't do so great with the more complex sugars that are left. I racked the beer into a secondary for now until I get some more yeast ready for the task. I am going to assume...

It has been another week and the old ale has finished off at 1.050. I did not want to brett all of this beer so I am going to try an intermediate champagne yeast add. I have started a 2L starter with WLP715 with 1.040 wort. After it has gone a couple days I will decant and put it on some...

It has been a week since brew day and my 007 is stalling out and sitting at 1.052. I had the carboy in the basement as the yeast had been keeping the temp at 68F nicely. Then on Friday I went down in the morning to check in and the blowoff tube is going really slow and we are sitting at 62F...

Ok, this is a crazy brew, I like where your head is at. Tell me you are going to go the distance and freeze concentrate some of this stuff.

Big second on this. I did a similar IPA a ways back and got way to much head that never went down. Ended up pouring 12 oz bottles into 1L jars to have enough space... less head retention.

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I transitioned this into a different higher gravity recipe https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=586038

I have probed amazon pretty well, and did find that seller. Of course 1 of the 10 reviews is a 1star for it being a plated brass shank and a SS barb. I will have to call on the other, or simply take your lead and head to ebay.

Brew day was largely a success. I hit 1.113 OG from the grain and treacle putting me at about 66% Eff. With the sugar added at high krausen I should get to 1.129. The partigyle came out at a very low 1.018 OG. This is my second partigyle and I had the same issue with the last. This may...

Special B is pretty potent grain. However, at 1.38 it is still less then 5% of the total grist. 22lbs of base malt helps dilute it.

I have been wanting to brew up something to age till my 6 month old can drink for some time now. I just got a new SS brewtech 15 kettle and I have a 3 day weekend so now is the time. To reference the time it was made I thought I would do a Brexit Old Ale with an EU bitter partigyle. OG -...

Thanks for the replies guys. Those ACU towers look really nice, I'm thinking that the insulated ones would work nicely with the passive copper tower cooling I am going to run. It looks like chicompany and micromatic stock the shanks I am looking for at about $50 a piece. It looks like...

I am in the process of building up a Danby kegerator into a nice triple tower. I have 3 Pearlic 630SS taps already and all my lines, thus I just need some nice elbow shanks and a tower. I can't seem to find anywhere that sells stainless elbow shanks or towers without any hardware that are...