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  1. iparks81

    Combining hops and Calculating IBU

    I've looked high and low I cant come up with the way to calculate Alpha acid content of multiple mixed hops....Argh For instance If I was to Mix: 1 oz Centennial @ 10%AA 1 oz Cascade @ 7%AA and .5 oz Chinook @ 12.5 I would now have 2.5 oz hops, but how can I determine the AA% or...
  2. iparks81

    nitro pour from the bottle (left hand milk stout)

    Left hand has done it. bottled beer with nitrogen and poors like it was dispensed from a stout faucet. http://www.lefthandbrewing.com/ picked up a 6er at whole foods, The left hand rep was there and he had said there was a new way of bottling that made it possible to have the thick...
  3. iparks81

    Oskar Blues Old Chub clone from BYO

    This clone recipe comes directly from the March-April BYO magazine I'm not claiming this as my own in any way. Old Chub 5 gallon batch OG 1.078 FG 1.020 IBU 35 SRM 32 ABV 7.4% 13lb 10 oz north american 2-row 18 oz English dark Crystal 12 oz Munish 3.5 oz English chocolate malt 6...
  4. iparks81

    have never used this combo.. Ideas?

    here is the recipe I've come up with for an APA/IPA, I have only used Simcoe hops, never delt with summit or ahtnamum before but would like to try.. TYPE: All Grain Taste: (35.0) Recipe Specifications -------------------------- Batch Size: 5.50 gal Boil Size: 7.48 gal...
  5. iparks81

    Anyone in the Phoenix area get ahold of DFH 120 min

    anyone else on here get a bottle or two? I got 1 bottles, thats all the LHBS would sell me, I guess there were only 10 cases sent to AZ and thankfully my LHBS was able to get one of them. since DFH stopped distributing 120min as much I'm pretty happy I got a chance to try this unique beer...
  6. iparks81

    Special Abbey. literary

    Back in December last year (2010) I went to the LHBS and bought ingredients for two different beers. one being a belgian dubbel and something else... Well long story short the beer I wanted special B in got special Roast instead....and this is how this beer came to be. BeerSmith Recipe...
  7. iparks81

    Averaging Alpha Acids

    I brewed an IPA the about 2 months ago.. My hop bill consisted of 1oz Simcoe 13.00%AA pellet 1oz Warrior 17.2%AA pellet 2oz Amarillo 7.5%AA pellet 4oz Total All mixed together Hop Schedule: .25oz 90 min .25oz 60 min From there I Put the...
  8. iparks81

    10 gal Cooler and heat loss

    heres the scoop Ive got a Rubbermaid 10 gal Cooler/mash tun. Works Great! But the last 4 brews have been brutal...Ive never lost any amount of Temp through the 60 min/90min/120min mash times...like maybe 2 Deg on a 120 min mash time. recently, within the last 4 batches...
  9. iparks81

    Warbird Red Ale.

    This is the First Recipe Ive posted, do to the fact that I wanted it to be a worthy one when I did come around to putting my own recipe on the forum. At first glance the recipe looks like it could be to malty and cloying. Its no Hop Bomb, but I really think its got decent balance Ive...
  10. iparks81

    Brewed a Amber, turned out great....But..

    I made up this recipe trying to use up some old hops/specialty grains. The things that I don't know about this brew are the fermentation temps.I normally keep it around 65-70 but this brew for some reason or other wasn't cared for and wasn't recorded...My dumb fault, its one of the most...
  11. iparks81

    Best before date vs. aging

    the reason I ask the question, is that Ive got a bottle of BrewDog riptide, twisted Merciless stout sitting on the shelf. Its a good beer and this is the second bottle that Ive bought, but I wanted to put it on the shelf for a while. Then I noticed on the bottle it says "BEST BEFORE...
  12. iparks81

    rubber...yum

    so I've got an amber ale thats been in bottles for 3 weeks and I decided to try the first one tonight. the first smell....rubber the taste, bitter rubber I have never had this bad of an off flavor in a beer. Fermented at 68F for 5 weeks in primary and then Bottled. recipe follows...
  13. iparks81

    Special B replaced By special Roast..what to expect

    I've used special B in a few previous Beers, but Never used Special roast. Being interested in trying a new brew using Special Roast I made Up a recipe. I went to my LHBS with two buckets for two batches of beer. one beer had 12oz Special B one had .25 Oz Special roast. Well Long story...
  14. iparks81

    Red dog beer

    Where can I find it!!! I've been in kindof a BMC mood recently and I remember liking red dog better than most...I havnt looked for it in quite a while, but when I looked recently in a few stores I came up empty handed.
  15. iparks81

    german beer wishlist

    I work at a business jet charter company out of Scottsdale as a mechanic, and we've got a challenger going to Germany at the end of the week. my co-workers and I are looking to put together a list of good german beers for the crew to pick up and bring back. and figured I should throw a post...
  16. iparks81

    Latest Label, critics welcome

    Uploaded with ImageShack.us printed out on shipping labels, not the fanciest but does the trick
  17. iparks81

    SWMBO wants a beer.

    SWMBO wants a easy drinking fruit beer, sooooo about 3 weeks ago we brewed an extract batch with some sweet orange peel and pineapple ( I now know about the pinapple and the enzyme effects it can have on beer) boiled the sweet orange and steeped the pineapple, and put in primary. I wanted...
  18. iparks81

    neautral yeast to dry out beer --Stopped @ 1.022

    brewed up a beer about a month ago and (not really following any style guidlines)...supose you could call it a British mild? My question is that it stopedd at 1.022 with White labs London ale yeast WLP013 spent 14 in fermentor @ 66-68 and 7 days in fermentor @ 50 racked to my keg and...
  19. iparks81

    Pacific Jade

    have searched with little info found on this Hop variety. I've been looking to make australian Amber ale recently, but I cant find pride of ringwood hops. I went to my LHBS with this issue and he said the closest he could come to an Aussie hop was Pacific Jade. has anyone brewed with this...
  20. iparks81

    PET vsPETE

    Over the weekend I found that FIJI brand water is bottled in PET plastic bottles....I thought to myself, that would be a good container for a Starter! Ive looked at a few other brands of water to see what type of plastic is used...most that Ive found have been PETE... My question being...
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