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Do you think this approach would work with a brown ale? I’ve had a similar experience as OP with a brown that just didn’t carbonate. Tastes great just undrinkably flat but I really wanna to try to salvage it.

Thanks for the tip I’ll just boil since it’s the first time I’ll be using it. Appreciate the help.

I haven’t had the problem yet but I’ve only brewed three batches so far. I don’t want the abv to be much higher than 5% so that’s why I figured I’d do away with the sugar bit the original recipe only calls for 4 ounces so I’ll probably just do use that amount. That should put the abv right where...

So I found this recipe for a blonde ale https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/tropical-blonde-ale.419142/ I’m going to modify it a little bit by adding 5 pounds of dry extract instead of 4.5 and I’m not going to add any corn sugar to the boil. I’m either going to use all Citra or replace...

Thank you! I planned on getting 3 or 4 oranges. Is that a good amount for a 5 gallon batch?

I’m going to make a blonde ale for a summertime outing coming up and I wanted it to have a nice refreshing orange/citrusy pop and flavor. I planned on adding some orange peel to achieve the flavors I want but I’m not exactly sure how to go about this. Should I add the peel to the boil or add...

I don’t want it to be to dry so I’ll probably use the Windsor. I could order the ESB online but I don’t want to make a starter. My wife and I recently had a kid so there’s no planned brew day. I’m just going to take advantage of the opportunity when it strikes and I have a few hours to dedicate...

Would you mind posting your recipe?

You’ve convinced me to not add anything extra for this brew. This will only be my third batch and the first in this style so I will play it a little more by the book. I will add honey malt though. Seems like a half pound is sufficient for a five gallon batch. My local shop doesn’t have the ESB...

I’ll look into the London ESB. Thank you! So you’d advise against adding the dry malt extract?

Brown ales are definitely underrated! I feel like I rarely see talk about people brewing their own!

I think I’m going to try honey malt and adding some local honey. I really don’t want that molasses taste so I’m gonna stay away from brown sugar!

Thanks I think I’m going to get about half a pound of honey malt to steep and get a pound of honey and dme to add at flameout. I really want to get that honey flavor in there so we’ll see if that works. Luckily this kit isn’t too expensive so if it doesn’t work I can just try it again! But I’m...

There’s a bunch of orchards in my area so I planned on stopping by one of them to get the honey. I’ll definitely grab the darkest I can find. Thanks for the tip!

Windsor and Nottingham seemed to be the most common strains that came up while doing a bit of research. I’ll definitely look into them a bit more. Thanks!

I try to support the local shop as Mich as possible and even wanted to buy all the ingredients from them instead of just buying the kit online but it would have been about twice as expensive. I will buy basically everything from the local shop that isn’t the kit that I would be using for the...

I’ll look into the honey malt. I really just want to add the honey flavor so if I don’t have to use actual honey that is usually expensive that is a plus. I’ll look into the PurePitcj yeast as well. Thank you!

I’m going to be purchasing the nut brown ale extract kit from Northern Brewer pretty soon. The suggested yeast the kit comes with is US-04 but I’ve slready used that yeast and would like to try something different. Does anyone have any good suggestions as to a different strain I could use? I...

I’m only on my second batch and don’t have any fancy equipment for temp control yet but I’m paying a lot more attention to it this time than I did with my first batch. As long as those little temperature gauge stickers are semi accurate and my hanging thermometer isn’t lying to me I’ve always...

I definitely agree the two aren’t exclusive and don’t mean to suggest that they are. I’m just not sure the Beginners forum is the best place for this debate to take place. Since most of us just starting out are likely to be using the standard yet primitive plastic bucket set up there really...