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We love using maris otter & golden promise. BOTH have outstanding flavors & color, perfect for any english ale. We just made a Sam Smiths Winter Welcome clone. Very basic, maris otter, crystal 60 & carapils, fuggles & east kent goldings. We used the liquid english ale yeast (1 qrt start)...

We love using maris otter & golden promise. BOTH have outstanding flavors & color, perfect for any english ale. We just made a Sam Smiths Winter Welcome clone. Very basic, maris otter, crystal 60 & carapils, fuggles & east kent goldings. We used the liquid english ale yeast (1 qrt start)...

FYI, on our 2nd keg of this, our second time brewing... I cannot stop drinking this.. lol AWESOME!! One of my new house faves. Great flavor. Brewing a gloden ale tonight, with a little zythos pellet hops, and a human heads worth of fresh cascades. also, we are going to use our newly created...

Bredle, this is ours after we put it onto beersmith2 Here's our recipe for this. All grain 8.25 gallons boil size 10.50 gal : brewhouse efficiency 78%: total water needed 12.85 gallons 10 lbs 2-row pale malt 1 lb Caramel 10L 1 lb Vienna malt 1 lb carapils 12 oz honey malt 1.80 g...

the flaked maize is tremendous in this recipe. It dries it out, makes it crisp. I love it in there. This is a solid recipe, we stuck pretty much to yoops original on page 1, only modifying our water, and it turned out fantastic. Everyone who's tried it, LOVED it as well. Live a little, try...

you need to know your equipment. For instance, if we are going to mash at 152, we factor in "dead space" in our tun, as well as temp outside. We use the orange home depot coolers, which are tremendous for keeping temp, IMO. Also, we stick the digital thermometer onto the grain.. usually around...

we brewed 12 gallons on sat night of this again. We did 2 things we have never done before. We washed and reused the yeast from the last batch and used it, and we also just recently just got an oxygen stone. Between the washed yeast w/starter and the oxygen.... we airlocked them at 1AM and by...

we just killed our last keg of this, so good... we just picked up another 20lbs of grain...lol. This is a great "house" ale. Appeals to the masses, and the discrimanting pallet. A real nice combo of grain & yeast.

Hate to be juvenile, oh hell.. no I don't.lolol, I just had 2 pints of this after mowig the lawn in 85 degree heat & 100% humidity & a shower. I just about walked into the wall in my dining room... My numbers on this say it is 6%, but my brain says this is easily in the range of 7/7.5%... how...

ours was pretty sweet as well, but finished off very dry & crisp. I am actually starting to think we're more in the 6.5% to 7% ABV range. I have one of these and I can feel it. Our efficiency has been up in the 75% area. We seem to be extracting uber amounts of sugars from our grains. Thing is...

I just filled 8 grolsch bottles with the remainer of this 3 gallon keg, just so we could get keg 2 on the Co2. Curious how the glass will soften the flavor. I do notice, even bottling off the keg, the ale actually bottle conditions after being out of the stainless steel keg.

Yes, Yoopers first post recipe. Very basic. We did have to adjust our mash PH, as with many yellow beers, was not enough lactic acid on it's own. And we adjusted our local water according to PH balance. But everything else, we did just as she instructed. Nice, crisp, dry finish. And 6% is...

OK, so let me say... this recipe is F'ing outstanding. We set this on the Co2 about 8 days ago, brewed maybe 4 weeks ago. Last night as we brewed a red IPA, we got into the Yooper cream ale for first time. We are just in love with this stuff. Brought over a neighbor just to make sure we're not...

or just add corn sugar to it, im not a huge fan of it, but it's a sure fire way to get fermentable sugars.

This brew went off beautifully. We hit a gravity of 1.049, 6 gallons. We used hersbruckers, which smelled incredible, never used them before, we added 1 oz of the Saaz, due to pilot error.., and finished off with a flame out of about 1/2 of the hersbruckers, since co-pilot added the entire ounce...