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Yes, I completely agree with you actually. I guess the reason that I called it a kolsch, is because it's based off of my kolsch recipe. I just sub'd GNO in for white wheat malt...and then used completely different hops :D So it STARTED as a kolsch, but now I have no idea what it might be.

I keep reading about the "nutty" flavor that they have. Is there any craft brew out there that you can think of that uses GNO, or anything that I could try with a similar "nutty" taste? Would this nutty taste be undesirable in a beer hopped with more tropical/sweet hops like bravo and Galaxy?

Thank you for the correction, yes, I used white wheat malt. And I sort of think that in the end, I won't quite have a kolsch. Maybe something similar to a kolsch but not exactly bjcp guidelines, as kolsches are supposed to be more on the dry side than the sweet side, if I remember correctly...

I've got a little time, so I've been experimenting and trying to perfect recipes so when the big brew day happens, I know exactly what I'm brewing. :mug:

Hey all, So I've really wanted to experiment with Golden Naked Oats and my wedding is coming up (which I am brewing all the beer for) so I wanted to give something new a try. I have a kolsch recipe that all my buddies liked, and I decided that it might be kind of fun to swap out the white...

I cedar aged a gallon of pale ale that I made and it made it extremely dry and sort of musty flavored. I may have done it for too long. Maybe this was just my experience, but I'm guessing cedar isn't going to impart citrusy flavors.

So the amount of yeast in the bottle will be enough to affect 5 gallons? That actually sounds pretty interesting, so maybe I will do that!

Thanks! This is the kind of advice I was looking for. Maybe mash at closer to 154? What is your reason behind moving the hops to 5 and 0 instead of 20?

That's sort of the problem. I LOVE cal commons. Normally they have big full malt flavor and exactly the right bitterness flavor, aroma. I was really excited to make my own cal common! But this just doesn't taste right. It tastes thin, but I'm confused as to why since my OG was over by a ton...

Orval dregs? Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is that?

5 gallon batch. Target OG 1.054 (OG achieved 1.068) Mash temp 148°F Finishing gravity 1.012 Fermentation schedule 2 weeks at 65. 3 days at 70. Conditioned at 40 for 3 weeks. 7.5lb pale ale (50.7%) 4lb Pilsner (27%) 1.5 crystal 40 (10.1%) 1.3 victory (8.8%) 0.5 honey malt (3.4%)...

No, I wasn't referring to victory. I was referring to the crystal malts. I guess I should amend my statement before because crystal 60 won't quite be chocolate/coffee, but crystal 120 is definitely pretty roasty. Crystal 60 will give you a fairly strong caramel flavor with maybe a hint of...

the recipe looks petty good, but I have a couple suggestions. She mentioned she didn't really like weird flavors like coffee or chocolate, and with about 13% of your grain bill being roasted malts, I have a feeling that's going to taste pretty coffee/roasted, and less grainy than you would like...

Dang. A day late and a dollar short haha. I boiled the hops and water last night, and then put it in a French press to remove all the sediment. I threw it in my beer today. I ended up just doing straight water, but dropping the pH and adding some extract is a good idea. Hopefully I won't...

do you think i could just boil hops in a quart of water for 60 minutes and add that? its a 5 gallon batch, so i dont think adding a quart of water would make a huge difference as far as watering it down. and as far as my whirlpool IBU, I will definitely calculate it as 0 bitterness from now on...