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Has anyone used flaked barley that they roasted ahead of time in a recipe? I toasted .25lb of it and i'm wondering what the flavor profile, etc. will be with the finished beer? The smell coming from the pan as i toasted the flakes was amazing and even my wife jumped in and was enjoying the smell...

So i have a hefty stockpile of British crystal malts. My problem is that i bought them on a whim and without a recipe. I figured, well it'll be good to have some crystal on hand. So on my "to brew" list is a Scottish heavy, an American style something to use the Ballantine ale strain, and a...

So i'm preparing my ingredients for my boil. Mash is about done and i haven't sparged yet. I am using a pound of piloncillo in my brew and i unwrapped the brick to find a nasty spot where it was at one point moldy. It looked dead, so i cut out the affected area and weighed it. Oddly enough, it...

Recipe Type: All Grain Yeast: WLP400 Yeast Starter: no Batch Size (Gallons): 5gal Original Gravity: 1.070 Final Gravity: 1.011 IBU: 17.1 IBU Boiling Time (Minutes): 60 Color: 3.9 SRM Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 14 Tasting Notes: Fruity, yeasty, calming. I based this initially on a...

So i'm 1 week away from bottling my Black IPA and i have enough dextrose to prime the batch and i'm not worried about it per se, but i have some questions that my searching couldn't come up with the right answer. (I will thank anyone who can link me to anything i missed of course) On...

So i've searched over the better part of an hour (and i'll check the base of this thread once posted), but i can't seem to find any decent hombrew competitions in the NJ area. I have a brew going that i have high hopes for and want to prep to enter it. Anyone have any leads? AHA had no...

All-Grain - Pitch Black Sheep IPA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recipe Type: All Grain Yeast: Cry Havoc Additional Yeast or Yeast Starter: American Ale Batch Size (Gallons): 6 Original Gravity: 1.078 Final Gravity: 1.016 IBU: 190...

I thought i'd share some hop heaven with my fellow brewers. This is my first year of hop growing. I have to wooden poles cemented into the ground. 2 on each end with a pole bolted in the middle that can be raised/lowered just by removing one bolt. Both poles are connected at the top by a...

About 3 weeks ago i brewed a Juniper Ale. After 1 week i racked to secondary and it's been there since the 7th of this month. I have this fermenting in 2 vessels. One has a "dry juniper" added. The second had nothing so i added dregs from a bottle of Mikkeller Yeast Series: Brettanomyces this...

I decided i don't contribute enough to HBT so i thought I'd pass along my tip for cleaning up. We all know about using Oxy-Clean and Star-San, etc. for cleaning and yeah, they work great. Every once in a while you need to scrub though and sometimes you just can't or shouldn't. I've come up with...

Partial - FineExampl's Citra Imperial IPA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recipe Type: Partial Mash Yeast: US-05 Batch Size (Gallons): 5 Original Gravity: 1.106 Final Gravity: 1.020 IBU: 65 Boiling Time (Minutes): 90 Color: 10 srm...

So, i don't make a ton of money, yet i needed a logical way to store my brewing equipment and not have to deal with my old back of the closet setup. The wife and i took a trip to Ikea with an empty carboy in tow. We had a cabinet in mind, but when i test fitted it, it became clear that it would...

All-Grain - Souchong Smoke Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recipe Type: All Grain Yeast: US 05 Yeast Starter: n/a Additional Yeast or Yeast Starter: US 05 Batch Size (Gallons): 5 Original Gravity: 1.077 Final Gravity: 1.017 IBU...

Let's see if this works... I will preface these that i know NOTHING about these other than they are vintage draft system parts that came with a faucet, co2 tank, and regulator i bought last year or the year before. All i know (from this...

Partial - FineExampl's Strong Rye Bitter -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recipe Type: Partial Mash Yeast: WLP002 Yeast Starter: 1000ml Batch Size (Gallons): 5gal Original Gravity: 1.080 Final Gravity: 1.020 IBU: 30.1 Boiling Time...

Recipe Type: Partial Mash Yeast: WLP810 Yeast Starter: 1500ml Batch Size (Gallons): 5 Original Gravity: 1.071 Final Gravity: 1.011 IBU: 27.2 Boiling Time (Minutes): 60 Color: 5.4srm Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 21 days at 70F Tasting Notes: It has a very strong alcohol nose...

So in an effort to not drink anymore today (extremely tired and want to stay awake) i am drinking a bigass pot of lapsang souchong tea. it's a black tea that has been smoked. i love the hell out of this stuff and would drink it by the gallon. It got me thinking, why can't i brew about 5-6gal of...

Extract - FineExampl's Strong Witbier -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recipe Type: Extract Yeast: WLP400 Yeast Starter: no Additional Yeast or Yeast Starter: Pasteur Champagne Batch Size (Gallons): 5.0 Original Gravity: 1.065 Final...

This weekend i am brewing up an extract recipe Belgian wit something or other. I don't want to pin down a specific style, but it's based on a few Hoe/Blue Moon clone recipes just to keep things simple. I want to have a heartier beer, so i think i'm on the right track and i have a few questions...

So here's the deal i have. I made a 1gal test batch beer and it's fermenting. In my fridge i have half gallon each of sweet and tart apple cider. When i transfer the beer to the secondary, would it work to ferment the cider right on top of the old yeast cake? or is this not possible? i'm still...