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Hey there ive been doing lots of herb additions with my beers lately. most recent a traditional rootbeer ale. Turned out amazing its a health elixir but beer! The thing with herbs n spice are they are gentle, so do pitch it towards your flame out and by adding ur herbs as a dry hop really brings...

Im really into crazy idea beers so i was thinking my favorite food into beer form... Peanut butter and Banana !! does anyone have experience using these ingredients? I could use a belgium yeast to help influence the banana flavors along side using some banana puree. When it comes to...

have you tried to use a irish moss diluted in hot water and mixed in a few hours before u bottle? if you can get most of the sediment to the bottom of the tank then run your kombucha through a first reusable synthetic screen cloth, then through your normal filtration. Are you trying to filter...

Right on thanks for the input , i think im going to do a pale ale with a hint of rooibos . cant wait to find out how it turns! happy brewin!

Just wondering has anyone played around with using tea in their beers? Im guessing it would be steeped at 160 for 15 mins then added to your boil at the last 5 mins? any help is much appreciated. happy brewing

yes if they go into the boil the flavour will just burn off in the boil and wont work ... but you can soak the beans in alcohol first to sanitize, then steep them 160 deg in clean pre boiled water then add that to your wart after your boil that way you will keep all those vanilla oils and...

i was wanting to add vanilla beans as well and i was told to add them in at the boil due to the fact that spice is full of wild yeast and bacteria. So killing off all them in the boil is a must. unless you soak them in pure alcohol and sanitize them that way, then you can add the beans and the...

You will have a much faster primary ferment with the addition of a scoby, all tho you can brew with just starter, the process takes 3 times longer to produce a quality kombucha. The culture will spend more time building a new membrane on the surface of your vessel. Or you help it by placing a...

how much priming DEX do i add to my 5 gal batch of stout for a nice fizz? the last batch of ALE i did didnt come out fizzy enough for me. I think i added 6 tbls spoons of dex.

right O thanks for the help brewers~! i went and helped a buddy brew the other day and wow nothing beats physically helping and picking his brain all day~ learned soo much!

base malt .... so couldnt I use DME as a base malt for mashing the oats? its made from 2 row .. i should have the enzymes to break the oat sugars out right?

right on thank you Calder! happy brewing !

ohhh right so say if i added just 1/2lb of 2 row to that mash of oats and caramel barley that would be fine?

This is what i have to brew with ... 1.7 kg Stout hopped malt concentrate (coopers kit) 1kg of DME 5oz molasses partial mashing 1lb oats with 1 lb of caramel crystal barley (50L) yeast that came with the cooper stout kit. Does anyone have any suggestions or possible concerns with...

my cooper kit ALE 5 gal tastes like apples....? too warm of a ferment?

the LME is a 1.7kg net weight.. . thanks you beer folk for the great feed back! i was boasting to some beer friends that work at the Townsite brewing here in Powell River B.C. about how awesome this forum is ... im going to be helping a friends dad with an all grain brew on monday cant wait to...

The thick membrane that forms on the surface of your brew Symbiotic colony of yeast and bacteria (SCOBY) is what the living culture in the starter tea builds to create an enclosed area for in which the starter tea can safely and sufficiently eat and build up its colony of bacteria and yeast...

Im doing a Cooper Stout LME that needs DEX to be added, and im substituting the 1kg DEX with 1kg DME since it will give e better body and flavour. In theory the DEX is 100% fermentable and the DME is 55 -75% fermentable so here is my question .... Im going to add a little twist here i am...

I my self am doing a cooper extract except stout and i am going to be substituting the 1kg dex for 1kg of DME as well as an extra 5oz of molassas and 1/2 kg of caramel barley and 1lb of oats being partial mashed) Randy Pan us should check out the You Tube vids on partial mashing its super easy...

Some cool info if ya dont already know IPA was a beer that evolved from Long voyages across theocean to get to India and during the long voyage the beer its self would change flavor or go bad so brewers back shore would add lots and lots of hops to help preserve the beer during transport. Hence...