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My favorite one to date is..."I don't drink anything but miller lite. Can you make that?" Thats when I smile and say "sure, I piss at least 7 times per day." Brew on bros and sis'. Cheers!

Having a taste of my amber ale while checking the gravity. Kegging it this weekend. Northern Brewer hops come through nicely and balances well with the malt. Its pretty young, but you know how you can just tell it'll be great! Cheers!

10 gallons of American Amber Ale 22627.5 so far... "In dog beers I've only had one..."

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Also, the recipe may have called for a fermentation time of 6 weeks because a true Marzen is a lager and they take much longer than ales. Now that you have an ale yeast, it will go much faster. BTW, what temp is it sitting at?

Sorry, I can't answer that with any confidence. I've never jumped into the fruit/veggie world. Though I have had a pumkin beer that was pretty good. I've read a few other posts on the forums, and could not find a decent answer on what it would do to the gravity-though others seem to...

The fermentation is done when your gravity drops to the desired/planned level. You cant just go by time in days. Check your gravity and see where you sit.

I would love to get my hands on an early colonial America recipe. Something drank by Ben Franklin and the like. I want to use a real recipe from back then though, not some guess work.

I'll have to let you know. I'm making an ag dusseldorf alt in the next couple of weeks. Kind of a German pale ale to me.

Ok so I checked gravity in both carboys (I split 10 gall batches). One is 1030 and the other is 1038. They are dropping but real slow. Should I get some new yeast and pitch or just agitate a little. This bock is pretty good and I would hate for it not to get even close to the fg of 1015. Cheers.

Btw, apologies for "gents". I guess that was a little presumptuous. I'll take a reading in a couple hours. Cheers

Ya, it was a 2 liter starter on a stir plate. I'll check it again tonight to see if there is progress. I know it's still doing something because there's a nice krausen on top. After I intrude with the wine thief the krausen dissipates and then returns within a couple of hours.

Gents, So I made a bock a few weekends ago. Nothing too crazy on brew day. My main issue is I made my starter the day prior as I usually do (I used 2 x Wyeast Bavarian Lager #2206). The smack packs never really expanded but I used them anyway-I waited about 12 hours for them to expand and...

Making a traditional bock on Monday using double decoction. Yeast starter tomorrow! I plan on laggering for 12 weeks so it's ready for my birthday at the end of may!! 15# Munich 10# Vienna 1# caramunich .5# carafa 1 Perl and tet hops. Wish me luck!!!

I was thinking of adding cherries to a robust porter. My plan is to use frozen cherries and thaw them in a bath of Irish whiskey-then strain them and add to secondary. Thoughts??