Recent content by Morty

If you aren't opposed to steeping some grains, I added 0.5lbs of Golden naked oats to a porter recipe that I thought was too thin. The grain is a golden color so it shouldn't add any darker color to a lighter beer. Our local beer expert told me this would add body. Boy did it and it made the...

I am looking for a good dark red ale or imperial red recipe. Any suggestions or recipes to share? Looking for full body. Cheers!

I recently got a recipe and ingredients for an IIPA that has a vanilla bean + bourbon soaked oak chips for the secondary. Sounded interesting. The recipe says to add the bean and bourbon chips for one day in the secondary. After reading other uses of vanilla and oak it seems like people had...

My very first home brew did this too! It all turned out with no infection or off flavors.

Thanks guys you are making me feel better about things.

So I made a Surly Furious clone last night. This morning I checked my beer expecting some activity but was shocked to find nothing. It appears that all the yeast is on the bottom of the BB carboy. I have little experience with liquid yeast as I have used mostly dehydrated yeast. I expected...