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Hey there ive been doing lots of herb additions with my beers lately. most recent a traditional rootbeer ale. Turned out amazing its a health elixir but beer! The thing with herbs n spice are they are gentle, so do pitch it towards your flame out and by adding ur herbs as a dry hop really brings...

Im really into crazy idea beers so i was thinking my favorite food into beer form... Peanut butter and Banana !! does anyone have experience using these ingredients? I could use a belgium yeast to help influence the banana flavors along side using some banana puree. When it comes to...

have you tried to use a irish moss diluted in hot water and mixed in a few hours before u bottle? if you can get most of the sediment to the bottom of the tank then run your kombucha through a first reusable synthetic screen cloth, then through your normal filtration. Are you trying to filter...

Right on thanks for the input , i think im going to do a pale ale with a hint of rooibos . cant wait to find out how it turns! happy brewin!

Just wondering has anyone played around with using tea in their beers? Im guessing it would be steeped at 160 for 15 mins then added to your boil at the last 5 mins? any help is much appreciated. happy brewing

yes if they go into the boil the flavour will just burn off in the boil and wont work ... but you can soak the beans in alcohol first to sanitize, then steep them 160 deg in clean pre boiled water then add that to your wart after your boil that way you will keep all those vanilla oils and...

i was wanting to add vanilla beans as well and i was told to add them in at the boil due to the fact that spice is full of wild yeast and bacteria. So killing off all them in the boil is a must. unless you soak them in pure alcohol and sanitize them that way, then you can add the beans and the...

You will have a much faster primary ferment with the addition of a scoby, all tho you can brew with just starter, the process takes 3 times longer to produce a quality kombucha. The culture will spend more time building a new membrane on the surface of your vessel. Or you help it by placing a...

how much priming DEX do i add to my 5 gal batch of stout for a nice fizz? the last batch of ALE i did didnt come out fizzy enough for me. I think i added 6 tbls spoons of dex.

right O thanks for the help brewers~! i went and helped a buddy brew the other day and wow nothing beats physically helping and picking his brain all day~ learned soo much!

base malt .... so couldnt I use DME as a base malt for mashing the oats? its made from 2 row .. i should have the enzymes to break the oat sugars out right?

right on thank you Calder! happy brewing !

ohhh right so say if i added just 1/2lb of 2 row to that mash of oats and caramel barley that would be fine?

This is what i have to brew with ... 1.7 kg Stout hopped malt concentrate (coopers kit) 1kg of DME 5oz molasses partial mashing 1lb oats with 1 lb of caramel crystal barley (50L) yeast that came with the cooper stout kit. Does anyone have any suggestions or possible concerns with...

my cooper kit ALE 5 gal tastes like apples....? too warm of a ferment?