Thanks so much guys, all really great ideas. Leaning towards the dunkel, been wanting to brew one for awhile anyways. Other ideas are great will have to keep in mind :) as I'm sure I'll have this conundrum again!
timdurning - love the name of your mild hahah
Hey all, I'm brewing a bavarian hef tonight. I am thinking forward to my next beer and was wondering if anyone has any creative suggestions for a good beer to brew with the hef yeast (other than another hef).
I'm down to get crazy, but still want to make a good drinkable beer...was just...
Hmmm. 2 weeks in the bottle, still minimally carbed. Tasted one last night. Smells wonderful, tastes great initially but then has this lingering bitterness that just stays with you, very strange. We were careful on sanitation as always and I cant think of any one thing that would have caused...
I recently made a coffee porter and we added about a quarter gallon of cold steeped coffee! I wanted to make something like ballast point victory at sea which has a super strong coffee flavor. We boiled our bottling sugar in the coffee before adding to bottling bucket. I did a lot of research...
Very excited to hear how this turns out - love this beer, had it at Oktoberfest in 2007 and drink regularly here at home. One of my wife's favorite beers as well!
Planning (and very excited) to use rwfishbu's recipe for this Koko Brown but need to convert to Extract. Thinking of using 7 lbs. Pale LME - any thoughts? Thx in advance