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Aiming for malty chewy yummy porter for winter nights... Feedback welcome and sought!!! ----BeerSmith 2 Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com Recipe: Spooky Brew Brewer: Asst Brewer: Style: Brown Porter TYPE: All Grain Taste: (30.0) Recipe Specifications...

Anyone else's HBT app going bananas? Mine throws 8 or so notifications up evey hour in rapid fire.. I have turned it off in notifications center but it still seems to be doing it.. might have to scrub...

Ok, been cutting back my hops for winter today and I found this: Harvestable Rhizome? by Cyclogenesis_au, on Flickr I have a hop hill with about 3 inches of mulch, the Cascade has gone NUTS and there is root mass all through the mulch now.. I found that I had accidentally cut some off...

So I have got all I would need for a long while from my hops.. what a harvest! 2 pounds of Chinook form one plant and two pounds of cascade from three plants... all dry weights.. very happy.. Now they still have leaves but are looking darn ugly.. can I cut back to the ground and bury for...

So I have trub from a 1028 yeast ale, and a very actively fermenting white labs essex ale yeast.. So I am brewing a rather random ale today, and I am slightly torn between a) Just using the whole trub b) washing the trub (takes time.. I want to brew in the next 4 hours) c) Top cropping...

Looking to brew something from an Amber to a brown.. Nice and malty.. using 1028 yeast.. Have: Marris otter and 2 row as base malt Got: caramunich 30L xtal a few ounces of choc carafa flaked wheat and barley Honey malt belgian aromatic patent belgian biscuit .3 oz of target...

Pale ale wort with first wort hops wet hops from the garden.. I'm inhaling the smell and there is nothing like it! Does anything beat the smell of first runnings hitting some hops? #lifeisgood

http://beersmithrecipes.com/viewrecipe/17067?&doid=4ff7249b80944 5 lbs Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 1 5 lbs Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 2 1 lbs Victory Malt (25.0 SRM) Grain 3 8.0 oz Biscuit Malt (23.0 SRM) Grain 4 8.0 oz Melanoiden Malt (20.0 SRM) Grain 5 6.4 oz...

Ok, I want a beer still within guidelines but on the darker side of the hefe spectrum.. here is what I am thinking Ingredients: ------------ Amt Name Type # %/IBU 5 lbs Pilsner (2 Row) Ger (2.0...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/natosummit/chi-bridgeport-arrests-molotov-cocktails-or-brewing-equipment-20120518,0,2015209.story I don't know how you could get confused between HB and incendiaries! Must be a high ABV brew!

Ok, So I am brewing a Amber Ale this weekend.. probably along the lines of an American Amber... (kind of from Fat Tire clones a bit tweaked) Here is the recipe: Ingredients: ------------ Amt Name Type # %/IBU 5...

So I am looking for two fridges/chest freezers to set up temp control and to eventually build a dispensing system... Seem to be a good deal come up on craigslist fairly often but only having a subie stationwagon (forester) getting it home is going to be a pain.. does anyone us truck rental or...

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Igloo-6.0-Cubic-Foot-Kegerator-Beer-Dispenser-Refrigerator/15162475?wmlspartner=hLUPakqa5g4&sourceid=31944370100238478369&sourceid=0100000012230215302434 $339 be hard to make it yourself for that.. fits two Cornies according to the Q&A.. thoughts?

Ok Here is what I am thinking of brewing Saturday: Ingredients: ------------ Amt Name Type # %/IBU 9 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 77.6 % 1 lbs 8.0...

So the brewery is nearly up again.. ended up going gas to begin with and see if I go decide to go electric in winter.. So I want to do a darkish, malty ale.. Here is what I put together in beersmith (wow, what great software) keen to hear your thoughts!!

I got quite into home brewing back in my PhD days in Canberra, Australia. I started with the Coopers Kit, went to steeping grains and hops and worked my way to all grain even playing with decoatation mashing, yeast propagation etc... Then I got a job and it all went downhill (plus moving...

Ok, I may need to draw pictures in the end but I have a cast iron pipe that comes from my toilet upstairs through into the basement where I am going to be building my e-Brewery. I want to be able to put in a basin for cleaning and water runoff. Is there any way to cut into the cast iron pipe...

Ok.. I am no miser, I have much more expensive hobbies than brewing but I am pretty blown away to the cost of going "off the shelf" electric... One of the cheapest options seems to be the stuff high gravity are selling but can anyone explain what makes this box: EBC II with Infinite Power...

I am setting up my basement brewery... Some reading has told me the boil will have to be done outside due to possible CO issues... I am not looking to go full electric (only 100A service) but would like to mash and sparge inside and either pump or haul the wort outside (Gravity will take care of...

Ok here's the wrap: I was a full grain brewer back in Canberra, Australia.. even won some awards at my local brew club... much fun... Moving into a smaller place and some "issues" meant I had to give it away for a while sold all my kit... Ready to get back into it now but I am torn how to...