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Grain Bill: 54% US 2-Row - 7lb 38% Rye Malt - 5lb 8% Caramunich - 1lb Mash Schedule: Step 1: Betal Glucan Rest, 20min @ 105F Step 2: Saccharification Rest, 60min @ 152F Hop Schedule: 60min: 1oz CTZ 20min: 1oz Willamette 10min: 1oz Willamette Flameout: 1oz Willamette Fermentation: 1 packet of...

This was intended to be a simple blonde ale to inaugurate my new AG system, but it got away from me thanks to my under-estimate of efficiency. I'm posting the recipe as-brewed since it turned out so well. It is almost a 2-row/Palisade SMASH except for the 4% rye malt that I added for head...

I made gift boxes to share homebrew with my family for the holidays, so I thought I'd post a few pics. I made the sides from 1/2" birch plywood, which looks pretty nice as beer crates go. I made rabbets in the front and back to help the pieces align. The front is a little shorter to...

I'm just going to apologize in advance, because I'm probably giving the forum an impossible task: figure out what it is that I'm tasting. This is kinda like my favorite game on automotive forums: "What's making this noise?" except I can't figure out how to YouTube my tongue. At least not in a...

In a couple weekends I'm planning to do my first step-up mash. I'll be using 35% rye malt so I'd like to do a beta glucan rest before heading for saccharification. Thing is, I have two choices and not enough experience to decide between them: Mash in my 10gal Igloo and add boiling water to get...

I had no idea what a difference serving temperature made until this week. Since I started homebrewing I have generally kept bottles in the back of my fridge. I don't know exactly how cold that is, but it must be below 40F. Recently I rediscovered this little Cuisinart 6-bottle wine fridge...

I'd like to know what you think about a banana-estery winter warmer that I brewed last year in hopes that I won't repeat the mistake. This was my second brew (LME extract kit from AHS) and it wasn't bad except for a very strong banana presence that lasted pretty much until I kicked the batch 3...

I have been around for a few days so I thought I would say hello. I'm sort of a "born again" homebrewer in that I did four Brewer's Best extract kits back in 2004 and then put my buckets away. The results just weren't all that great, though looking back I can think of a dozen things that I...

I have been thinking about brewing a cyser in the fall (once local cider becomes available) and I'm leaning toward a less-strong variant like the AHS kit. That starts at around 1.070. Roughly how long should it take for something like that to be ready to drink? An ale of that gravity I would...