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Yeah, a target gravity would be good to know. It also may take a batch or two to figure out how to get a high yield out of mashing with your setup. If you are a few points off, it is no big deal.

Yep! Worry in a few days if nothing has happened. The yeast cells have been in a big coma!

It is going to be around a 5% ABV beer, right? It looks like your original gravity is likely to blame. No worries, it will just feel like a lighter beer.

That would be fine. Just keep them away from the light. Also, I have never bottle conditioned before, but do you really need to put them in the fridge? At 45 degrees Fahrenheit, wouldn't that have the same effect?

Nice tiles! Perhaps take another reading or try with another hydrometer. Unless you planned on making an incredibly high alcohol beer, 1.49 sounds really high. Many imperial stouts and barleywines are around 1.104.

Sure! There are also some conveniences associated with doing so. For example, your original gravity will be lower so you can pitch a smaller starter or buy less packets of yeast to use. You may also get more treacle notes because the substance was not boiled excessively. Just make sure you...

I think you are also safe in a technical sense as altering already malted grains with heat is not itself considered malting, according to a dictionary.

It can't hurt to let it go another few days, personally, I would wait a week at the very, very minimum. But he fermentation time is dependent on many variables including original gravity, yeast strain, and temperature, to name a few. I don't like exposing a new beer to air unless it's...

It would not hurt at all! In part, steeping washes the fermentable substances off the grains, so it probably helps to a degree.

I have use molasses in the boil but not treacle. It may have been Zainasheff's book that stated that treacle is most similar to the darkest and unrefined of molasses. You can always add the treacle into the fermenter. I usually add my baking sugars, maple syrups, and honeys by nearly simmering...

I think Founders' Red's RyePA is an all Amarillo concoction, which is a pretty popular beer in the Midwest. Try it out in a stout where aroma additions are large.

A lot of aromas and flavors are relative. Just my opinion; dry hopping with Chinook tends to produce huge grapefruit notes. For the flavor, most stated above are fine. There are cheaper ways to get a good dose of cat urine flavors in your beer...

I have mashed with roasted, seeded, and vained jalapeños, and added some additional flesh at flameout. The beer was a dry imperial pale ale and I used about four large peppers. Together, the additions gave the beer a very nice, gentle jalapeño aroma and imparted a similar flavor. The late...

At 44 SRM I doubt that it will get noticeably brighter! Think about dropping pumpkin into a glass of cola, or something like that.

Might be late but it is probably worth saying anyway; in my humble experiences, many of the Australian hops are good for tropical flavors. Which seems almost stereotypical when I think about it...but anyway, there is a hop not mentioned yet called Motueka which imparts great lime, mango, and...

Great! Make sure to keep those notes safe!

Professor emeritus of online passive aggressiveness over here! Hop off the jump to conclusions mat, man! The a. verb "can" does not imply necessity, and therefore cannot logically lead to insistence. In other words, you don't have to do it if you don't wanna!

Thanks for the update! Really, I think you did a solid thing by figuring this out now. Imagine learning this lesson on a much more precious beer to be! But I think that the more time you give it, the more it will mellow out. Plus, some people really dig earth flavors!

Glad to hear it! And it will only get better over the next few weeks...I like the sound of 7.5% though...you never know when 6% just won't do the job!

Yikes, there is more e-rage building up in this thread than in an amateur Starcraft 2 match... I have seen people get bent out of shape over many things, but sanitizer was never one of them, ha ha! No rinse sanitization works fine and has been pretty well defined in previous posts of this...