Recent content by GreenGal

Seriously? I never insisted on anything. I never asked for someone's recipe. I did not post the first recipe. I did not start this thread. I asked for help and was just told to buy the kit, which is not an answer so much as a smartass comment. I mean, it has been 24 hrs. I was...

I appreciate the links and I am not (was not) asking for anyone to provide any further information for me, don't get me wrong. Just to be sure, what you are saying is the following: 1) it was alright for someone else to post this recipe from AHS (and others from AHS), even if they are...

Thank you for the advice. I have actually read deathbrewer's guide a half dozen times. I also found the PM conversion guide this morning and read through it - it is quite helpful. The reason that I had asked my question about substituting the wheat (which perhaps would have been treated more...

Thank you, that is so helpful! I am a moron, after all! Why even post the recipe if the only option is to buy everything from the AHS website? Why is it different for Extract, but fine for AG? Maybe I don't need the majority of the supplies in the kit. Maybe I want to pick up the rest at...

Does anyone have a suggestion of how to turn this into an extract w/ specialty or possibly partial mash (if I can get away with just a grain bag - I have no $ for any extra equipment right now). The wheat is really throwing me for a loop. Thanks!

Thanks everyone! That is what I suspected. My boil off rate seems fairly in keeping with what you are saying as well - I think I had read something somewhere about different diameter pots having wildly different boil offs and it must have been stuck in my head. This info makes me feel more...

I spent all day yesterday searching the boards for this and could not for the life of me figure it out: Boil size seems to be an important factor when calculating hop utilization however I am not sure when the volume measurement is supposed to happen. Is it: a) the total volume in the pot...

Thanks for all the suggestions! I just bought supplies for a half batch of Orfy's Mild Mannered Ale for this weekend (I only have a 3 gallon free right now) and I think I will experiment a bit with some of the toastier grains in the next batch (whatever that may be).

I too am intrigued by the roast-your-own idea. However, is there really a difference between roasting my own and buying already roasted malted barley? Perhaps there is more complexity from the more uneven roasting of the barley in your oven as opposed to even roasting in a drum roaster or...

So I have recently discovered that I absolutely love the flavor of toasty roasty grain in my beer (maybe a bit more on the toasty side). I was wondering if anyone had any extract recipe suggestions that really emphasize these flavors. Though I get the feeling from a few threads that this...