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I entered a couple bottles from last years batch into competition and they won their category. Scored a 45.5! My recipe/process is pretty close to the original other then I push the abv up to 10% and I am slightly more heavy handed with the spices.

I do appreciate your input and you’re right about what the softener is changing, I didn’t really think that through. However I am not exactly worrying about the impact of sodium, I know that 94 is high but I’ll reference Brülosophy sodium experiment with 100ppm in a beer being the preferred...

According to brun water the practical maximum for sodium is 100ppm, but ideally under 60. Again I dont have any perceptible issues with the sodium, I am more interested if there is a practical maximum on the sulfate with my sodium that high to avoid a minerally character. It is through a water...

I have read that you should limit sulfate levels when sodium levels are high. My brewing water has 94ppm of sodium, I have never had any noticeable issues from that, but now that I am starting to adjust my water im wondering if there is a practical limit of sulfate I should stick to based on my...

A quick google search didnt readily turn up anyone that seems to sell it online. Perhaps its a regional thing and it doesn't grow as well where you are? My wife is hitting the farmers market for me in the morning to get some, assuming she finds it ill have her grab an extra piece, if you're...

I don’t think the size is necessarily part of it, but it is just immature ginger plants. They’re pink/white and don’t have that tough outer layer. Would be something you would most likely have to source at a local farmers market. Here’s the article that inspired me to try it...

Which did you prefer? I have done both but not in the same year, hard to judge fairly that way, but I think I preferred the tea method. Last year I used fresh "baby ginger" for the first time, and I would highly recommend it. It seems to add a much smoother ginger flavor without dominating...

To answer my own question the spices definitely mellowed out some with a few weeks in the keg, and it seems like the carbonation helps meld all those flavors together. This was my best version to date. I think upping the spices by about 25% helped suit it more to my tastes, but kegging and then...

I have brewed this for the last couple years and have gotten great feedback, but ive always felt like the spice notes are just a little too muted for my tastes, so this year I decided to up the spices roughly 25% except for the ginger. In the past I have bottled this beer and usually try my...

Im going to keg this beer this year for the first time, has anyone ever experimented with adding the spices directly to the keg? I was envisioning something like keg hopping and adding the spices in a bag, and pulling them out when you get the desired flavor.

Haha, I probably deserved that. At least now I know I’m incapable of carrying on a conversation while measuring sparge water...

Thanks for your advice. I double checked a gravity reading just in case it wasn’t homogenized before but got the same reading. Think I’ll go with 2 lbs tomorrow. Hopefully the beer will still turn out decent

Just finished brewing a dunkelweizen. 5.5 gallon batch with an expected OG of 1.056. Ended up with about 3 gallons of 1.066... not sure how I managed that one, but I think I accidentally was short on my sparge volume. Made a rash choice to top it off with water and now I have the right volume...

I am working on a recipe for a 5 gallon batch with only 6 lbs of grain, that puts my boil gravity estimated at 1.023. I am a single step batch sparger, and typically brew much bigger beers so I have never given much thought to tannin extraction from oversparging. My online calculator has my...

Took second in the winter seasonal category with a score of 34. Certainly a pleasant surprise for my first competition entry. Thanks op for the great recipe, my only real tweak for my version is to boost up the abv to just over 10%.

Finally got around to brewing this a few days ago, better late then never! I did end up entering last years batch in a homebrew competition. It scored a 34, good enough for second in the category. Certainly a welcome surprise for my first foray into competition especially considering it was...

Thanks for the advice. Curious what would y'all say is the "base style" of this beer? My wife wants to enter ours into a homebrew competition but you have declare a base style and I'm not really sure what to put,

Brewed this and gave out bottles as Christmas card substitutes last year and it was a big hit. My LHBS owner suggested putting the spices in bourbon and letting it infuse the spice character and then adding the bourbon to the beer instead of the spice tea in the OP. I stuck to the original...

I am looking to re-brew this recipe, I was very pleased with how it turned out as listed above, but I would like to scale it up to a 10 gallon recipe and convert it to AG. I'm guessing just doubling the hop additions should get me close, and then just drop the DME and up the base malts to a...

Merry Christmas!