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Just drank one of these from last year and it has only gotten better. going to brew this soon

Mine came out delicous with a ton of vanilla up front. I used fresh ginger and I can't pick up any of it. I only used about 1/2 a tablespoon. I was afraid it was going to be too much. This one fermented well but came out a little wet in the mouth. Not much feel with little head retention. Still...

I kegged mine on Oct 15th and as of Nov 15th the spice characters are mellowing out quit a bit. I didn't use as much ginger (fresh grated about 1tbs) and used sweet orange peel. So far the orange peel and vanilla is the most prominent flavors. I ran out of Co2, so until I get more, this is still...

I did give the fermenter a little jiggle and some soft taps with a mallet last night to see if maybe the tilt was hung up on the glycol coil and in hopes to rouse the yeast a bit. The tilt sent a reading that bumped up to .048 then fell back to .046. It could very well be caught in there. The...

A little background here. I brewed a 10 gal IPA last Sunday. Post boil gravity was 1.074 measured with refractometer and confirmed with tilt hydrometer. So, three weeks prior I had made a large 4l starter with a whitelabs 041 Pacific Ale flex pack, I let it stir for 48 hours. So, I was planning...

You can still add your honey. Honey naturally is anti bacterial so you don't need to boil it for 10 mins. In fact, I used three different types of honey in my cupboard to get to the one pound needed for the beer and one of those containers was completely crystalized. I had to heat it up for like...

I do not know for sure but basic chemistry points to a slower thermal decomposition at lower temps. I have kegged this beer and let it carb for two weeks now and I am going to transfer to bottles this weekend. I tasted a half pint of this last night and it tastes the same to me as it did when I...

Kegged this last night. The tea smelled so good, and the beer tasted great. Planning on bottling from the carbed keg around Dec 15th. whoop whoop.

I brewed this two weekends ago on September 15th and Last Saturday on the 29th I racked to my secondary so I could use my primary ferm bucket again and I was sitting at 1.014 so I would say you should be fine fermenting for two or less weeks if needed. This beer takes a minute to mature anyways...

Good question. I assumed most have used fresh orange peel in the tea. I have seen dried orange peel at LHBS.

There is a post in this thread that mentioned just adding the spices directly to the secondary for a period of time before bottling and they pretty much picked up no flavoring once bottle conditioned. Not sure how long it would take to get the same effects as the tea when you just add the raw...

BTW I'm using a keggle gas fired HERMs system similar to the burtus 10 build.

I couldn't find the original recipe and completely forgot that it called for 1lb of honey at flameout. I also added the hop addition for the full 60 min boil and did a 1oz horizon 4% AA in my whirlpool. I had the horizon in the back of the freezer for like 3 years in a food saver vacuum pac. I...

Anyone brewing this this year? I got a batch sitting in the primary. I've been wanting to brew this for a few years now and I always miss the date. But not this year. Can't wait. I added the honey 24 hours after fermentation started and it took me about 48 hours to get the fermentation temp down...

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