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Do you just mean brew 1 gallon but with essentially double the hops/grains? or do you mean brew 2 actual gallons?

Hi guys, Been out of the game for a bit and I want to make an IPA for my friend who's moving to town. Just making a 1 gallon batch. Went to my local Homebrew store and he helped me cut down a recipe from 5 gallons to 1 gallon. However, when I put the grains together, i accidentally got...

And FWIW, if i had to do this over again, I would simply soak 2 vanilla beans in some bourbon and skip the wood chips. Honestly, the initial flavor is quite good and I think would be fantastic minus the bitterness.

So in case anyone is curious, I cracked open my first bottle of this last night. The aroma is very nice. Light bodied, but an undertone of vanilla. The initial taste is what i would expect from the aroma. however, there is quickly a bitter flavor that jumps in. I was able to drink it, but i...

So mine came out much darker than other's pictures. I did the grapefruit version. I think my mistake might have been that I made about 4.5 gallons, let that ferment for 3-4 days, then added the simply grapefruit so final product was a little over 5 gallons. I'm thinking that would explain the...

Tagging this for later. Any other feedback on the extract recipe?

Well all the more reason to respond then. Help me avoid making a crappy beer. :) I already have the ingredients above, but i dont really want to make a plain Cream Ale. Any suggestions for how you can tweak a cream ale into something more interesting? I guess in my mind i was imagining...

Any suggestions or comments? Is there a better board I should post this on? Thanks!

So I have 2 vanilla beans leftover from other adventures and I picked up 4 oz of american oak chips, along with a Cream Ale recipe from my LHBS. To me this sounds like a great flavor pairing, but i've never used oak chips before. Thoughts/suggestions on my idea? Cream Ale recipe: .75...

Thanks Slim (and OREUS). Got everything earlier tonight and will brew on Saturday. This may have been answered elsewhere in this thread, but any suggestions regarding how many limes it takes to get the right amount of zest?

Can anyone verify what Oreon answered to this question regarding the 1 lb vienna malt? I am heading to my LHBS later today to pick up extract ingredients. When i found the extract recipe suggestion earlier in this thread, I got the impression you wouldn't do any of the grains. Somebody said...

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yeah, this sounds awesome. I'd be happy to just be able to buy it even...

Sounds good.

Yeah, i'm pretty happy with how mine turned out. I didn't have any sharp alcohol flavors, but i was disappointed in the carbonation levels early on. The last couple I tried were better...that and I was a little less careful about how i poured them. I'm careful not to include the sediment at...