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Hey folks, I have a good friend who really loves rooibos tea, and I thought I'd do a half-batch of a rooibos Irish red ale as an experiment / first foray into "flavored" beers. I figured that the loamy, earthy taste of the tea would work well with the roasty flavors of an Irish red, and the...

Hey folks, So, I've got a dry stout that should be close to bottling time. The thing is, it is a few gravity points higher than BeerSmith predicted, and I can still see small bubbles surfacing in it when I open the lid. However, the gravity reading has been stable for a few days. Are those...

Hey folks! I'm about to attempt a Guinness clone for my good friend who loves the stuff. I'd like to try the "Ode To Arthur" recipe that seems well-loved around here, but I don't have the equipment or experience to do an all-grain batch. I know I can substitute some pale malt extract for the...

So, I just finished bottling my first beer :ban: :rockin: Now, however, I'd love to save some of that lovely saison yeast I spent my dollars on. Online when I saw examples of people doing this, after they poured water into the yeast and shook it up, it settled into very definite layers, with...

Being a beginner, I'm still collecting equipment. One of those things I have yet to collect is a proper large pot for boiling. For my first batch I borrowed a large stock pot from a friend, but I don't necessarily have easy access to it at all times. One thing I wondered is, how difficult...

I'm about to siphon beer to a bottling bucket for the first time and I've got a couple questions. I don't have an auto-siphon, just a racking cane and some tubing, so I've been looking around at siphoning techniques. As I was practicing with plain water the other day I found that the easiest...

So, I'm trying to design a recipe in BeerSmith and I have a very weird issue with the mashing step. I click on the "Mash" button, and it tells me to mash with 48 qts of water. The thing is, my recipe is a partial mash with only 2 lbs of grain. So I click on "Edit Step", and change the...

Hello, HBT! Long time listener, first time caller. Before anything else, I'd like to thank all the members here for all the wonderful information I've found on this forum, especially those who took the time to write up the guides and stickies that I have found totally invaluable in the...