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Meant bready not Brady haha, stupid autocorrect

Heres my recipe for what I'm calling my Southern Cross IIPA.. Style: Imperial IPA OG: 1.079 Type: FG: 1.020 Rating: 0.0 ABV: 7.73 % Calories: 258 IBU's: 95.10 Efficiency: 70 % Boil Size: 3.80 Gal Color: 10.7 SRM Batch Size: 3.00 Gal Boil Time: 90 minutes Fermentation Steps Name...

I'm no expert but the honey being around 30% almost makes it a barley wine braggot if there is such a thing haha... That being said, it looks damn good to me. I plugged it in to my ibrewmaster and it looks like the 1056 should bring it down to around 1.024... Hope that helps

Keep in mind it was 113 tootsie rolls in a 2.5 gal batch too haha

They added about .040 to the gravity haha. It just looks like straight chocolate milk in the carboy haha

Does that mean I don't have to worry? I'm very confused...I never pay attention to the airlock, I just have aluminum foil with a rubber band on top of my carboy. I'm really just talking about the fermenting beer itself.

Yea, I'm not really worried about the airlock, that can be very hit or miss for me. I mean more like when the yeast is going and the krausen looks like its boiling. There are tons of bubbles but they're all very small, didn't know if that was a cause for concern.

.5 lbs of organic chocolate malt (steeped) .5lbs of caramel 80 (steeped) 1/4 cup of flaked oats (steeped) 3 lbs Light DME (Boil - 60 min.) 113 tootsie rolls (Boil - 60 min) .5 oz of Crystal - 60 min .25 oz of Crystal - 20 min 4 oz of unsweetened cocoa - 15 min .25 oz of Crystal - 7 min 1...

I'd rather not say how many I ate...hahah. The recipe is as follows: .5 lbs of organic chocolate malt (steeped) .5lbs of caramel 80 (steeped) 1/4 cup of flaked oats (steeped) 3 lbs Light DME (Boil - 60 min.) 113 tootsie rolls (Boil - 60 min) .5 oz of Crystal - 60 min .25 oz of Crystal - 20 min...

I just created a blog for my adventures in homebrew/drinking assorted craft beers. The link is http://septemberstormbrewing.blogspot.com/ . Any feedback is greatly appreciated. I put up a post about the beer I brewed today called How's Your Beer, Toots? (a tootsie roll beer). If anyone is...

I'm relatively to the obsession but I did the NB smashing pumpkin ale which used no pumpkin, just pumpkin pie spice. I amped up the spices...instead of 1 tsp at flameout I added .5 tsp at 45 .5 tsp at 15 and 1 tsp at flameout. It tastes incredible, can't tell that there's no pumpkin at all. Just...

I'm only on about batch 6 now but I've read countless threads here and a few books but I still have a nagging question and I'm sure I overlooked it at some point but some guidance would be appreciated. I refrigerated my first batch after 3 weeks, some flavors were a bit harsh thanks to n00b...

I want to add cinnamon and vanilla flavor to my Smashing Pumpkin Ale...I've read in various places that people soak cinnamon sticks or vanilla beans in vodka or spiced rum. I'd like to know people's experiences with this and maybe get some suggestions about how/when to add this and how much to...

I just did a smashing pumpkin ale from NB and it's my first batch with spices. Is it possible that the spices could stay afloat after the kraussen falls? It looks kind of weird right now but I think I can attribute it to the spices. Any experience/advice on this would be greatly appreciated.

Here is a link to the recipe I am using http://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/beerkits/SmashingPumpkinEX.pdf I was wondering if it would be a problem if I used either safale s-04 or safale us-05 for my yeast seeing that I sort of pieced this recipe together at my LHBS. Any help is...

I'm just using the carb drops like I usually would...I'll post back and let you know how it goes. Just need to go to my LHBS and get some more bottles!

The people at NB told me that it wouldnt be a problem with sugars. They said I still would have to carb like normal

I added the flavoring Sunday afternoon

Do you mean that 3-5 days after fermentation is enough for the yeast to do their thing? I had my brew going for 13 days in primary and now 8 in secondary. Do you think I'd be ok to bottle this weekend? That would be about 4 weeks since I started. I also added my flavoring already to secondary...