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I agree. Great things are made by breaking the boundries a bit and playing outside the comfort zone but, honestly, I don't see a lot of chance for error with those ingredients, just the possibility at a few different styles. 50% munich malt with any mix of the others (making some...

Well, with limited experience and a ton research on the inventory and styles in that range the first thing that comes to mind is if you want a wheat beer, you're going to want a few lbs of wheat malt, looking at John Palmer's How to Brew and a ton of recipes on BeerSmith's site I'm seeing most...

Planning a higher grav Weizenbock and all the yeast strains I'm seeing at wyeast for wheats have a 10% ABV tolerance and my recipe at the moment is right at 10% on brewsmith. I was planning a fairly extensive mash temp schedule to make sure we get good conversion but I'm concerned about what...

ditto, heh :mug:

Dug up a bit of info on medicinal herb extraction and and has a few techniques for THC extraction for baking, she uses mostly leaves but you can use buds too. Now, one of them is for butter, which wouldn't be useful here at all, the oil i'm a bit dubious of its usefulness to, think the best...

As I wait for the Safale-05 to start up in my impossibly dark alebomination (alot I would have changed about that brew day in retrospect but I'm still holding out great hope for it to be a big beer with huge flavor) I put together the framework for my next project to try and nail down my...

I'm brewing the Bananas Foster Creamy Ale and while I may not add as much rum to it, he'd said that by the time it was done it came out around 9%. This being my first time making a yeast starter - WLP001- I had boiled 1cup of light DME with a quart of water and put in a growler with an...

I'm trying One8tvw's Bananas Foster Creamy Ale recipe and have encountered several 'hiccups' in my process. This was my first attempt at all-grain and at the end of that process I had about 3 1/2 gallons of 1.058 wort to which I'd added some light dme in a gallon of water, that brought it up...

I'm trying to see the difference between the two but I'm only seeing the extra carboy which I agree, I'd rather have 6 gallon carboys so i can primary in them, and personally after having one shatter on me, albeit mostly due to improper use of a handle and inexperience, I wholeheartedly prefer...

As far as clearer, with the limited xp I've had, 8-10 brews, I've been using Irish Moss with fairly decent results, I've heard from several sources that best results come from trying a variety of methods and products. The clearest beer I'd had so far was a session pale kit, i believe, and...

I feel for ya buddy, I can relate, my first was less than a year ago and just like yours was a NB caribou slobber. We didn't have a fermentation chamber and pitched it at some ridiculously high temperature, 80-90 i think, then once it kicked off it went insane for about 24 hours and was around...

While I'm completely inexperienced with ciders I'd stumbled across this after reading your post and thought it may be helpful. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f32/results-juice-yeast-sugar-experiments-83060/

I've heard people say the best results come from using a couple different methods, my best results so far have come from using Irish Moss in the last 15m of boil, racking off to a secondary after it's done fermenting and cold crashing for the last few days in the secondary, but that can be...

first off, congrats on your first brew! While I'm no master at this yet (only got about 8-10 brews under my belt so far) I think you'll still be doing fine. I've only just last night ran my brew through a strainer for the first time last night and while you probably get some benefits from...

I read up a bit more, listened so a podcast about it and pretty much totally rebuilt it. I went for a 90 minute boil, decreased the mash temp to 146 degrees, increased the boil size to 4 gallons, added some Tettnang (though I'm wondering if I should stick with the saaz and hallertau) and...