Recent content by bighitterstone

I was reading an article where someone claimed they soaked their grains in whiskey before mash. Seems odd to me but I was interested to hear if anyone has done this before and what the impact was. I would fear that most characteristics would be lost in the boil.

Thanks guys. I'll take all these in consideration. I love the east coast beer scene so I'm sure this list will help. Cheers!

I'm coming to DC this weekend I am looking for some recommendations for good spots to check out.

Game on! Would love one of these!

I'm in.

My parents brought me back from Mexico a batch of their spectacular dark roast coffee and I'd like to add it to an ale. I am having little luck getting started. I'm not versed enough to build a recipe from scratch so I usually find someone's who I can work from. I want a light colored ale...

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This past weekend I was at Sweet Mullets Brewing Company in Wisconsin. They made a gruit aged in Cabernet barrels that was pretty great. I would like to replicate that at home using cubes. The wine won't be the problem but I have zero experience with gruits and am looking for some...

Here's ours. These are done on clear vinyl and the bottle is clear. We identify our different brews by a tag that gets tied to the neck of the bottle and a colored bottle cap.

Will do. I'm going to try a couple of different calculators as well to see if I can at least triangulate the results. Thanks for the help

Thanks for the great link and all the help. I'll double the Spalt hops to get it a bit more bitter. This is the link I use for the recipe builder. My calculations show different numbers to theirs but it gets me away from my fear of being too sweet...

I just plug the info into a calculator. That's what it gave me. I will admit to being a noob to building a recipe so the info you gave me has me a bit lost. Is this a big issue? How will it affect taste?

I'm putting together my first non-kit brew and want to get off to a good start. I'm looking for some suggestions from seasoned brewers before I put grain to water. This would be a 5 gallon batch. Do you see something I'm missing? Any other suggestions? I'm attempting to play with the...