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Hello All, Rightly or wrongly, as of late I have begun using Northern Brewer as my standard bittering hop. Literaly using to bitter every one of my beers. Thus far I've been pretty happy with the results. My biggest motivation for this was economic. With Hop prices running over $2 per ounce...

Im brewing an Irish Red this weekend, my own recipe but I was thinking about Oaking it, say a couple ounces in a secondary for a week prior to kegging. Am I crazy? Has anyone tried this?

How can you set the default mash thickness in Beersmith? How do you elect to save your .bsm files in another location? Any help is greatly appreciated

Stuart Mackenzies Old Chubby Strong Scotch Ale Type: All Grain Date: 5/5/2011 Batch Size: 5.50 gal Brewer: Barry Gruis Boil Size: 6.51 gal Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: Storm Mountain Brewing Company Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 Taste Notes: This is a "rough" interpreation of...

All-Grain - Stuart Mackenzie's Old Chubby -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recipe Type: All Grain Yeast: Wyeast 1728 Scottish Ale Yeast Starter: Yes Batch Size (Gallons): 5.5 Original Gravity: 1.072 Final Gravity: 1.012 IBU: 28 Boiling...

I am planning on brewing a big beer this weekend. I've looked high and low for information on capping the mash, to no avail. Does anybody have any experience with this..what would the procedure be? My initial thought is this. I will have a MT full of 16 lbs of Golden Promise that will have...

I turn the big 39 this year and I've been promising a Beer centric vacation for a long time. As luck would have it my birthday is at the end of September right in line with the begining of Octoberfest! So Im still in the planning stages but here is my rough schdule. I'm looking for thoughts...

18 lbs German Pilsner 2 lbs Munich Malt Mash @ 150F for 60 min's 1.5 oz Northern Brewer 60 mins 2.5 oz Hallertauer 10 mins My family is from North Western Germany so I tried to focus on recreating a pilsner lager that was in the style of Jever, a popular local beer. This is my...

All-Grain - Storm Mountain ESB -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recipe Type: All Grain Yeast: WLP 002 Batch Size (Gallons): 5.25 Original Gravity: 1.047 Final Gravity: 1.012 IBU: 38.6 Boiling Time (Minutes): 60 Color: 10.1 Primary...

Hello all, I've done some searching and can't seem to find an existing recipe for this beer. Needless to say I like the beer...(or why would I want to clone it right?) So if no known recipe exists I would like to start an converstaion on what it would be like. My first thought...

Ok...I'm looking for opinions on this thought. In the past I have pitched my lagers at arouund 68 degrees...let fermetation kick off (say 24 hours or so) ...then drop to around 50 degrees for the bulk of primary fermentation. I have never personally experienced any off flavors but I...

I would like to clone Labatt Blue.....the biggest question I have at the moment is what Hops to use? I'm putting this out there because I know alot of you are better at picking out the hops on smell alone. Any one have a guess?

Ok...this is one of my favorite commercial beers. I'm trying to clone it. I would appreciate any input. Thanks 9.5lbs 2 Row 1 lb Crystal 20 .50 Nugget as the bittering hop 1 oz Willammete at 10 minutes 1 oz Casacade at 10 minutes I was thinking a 60 minute mash at 151. 60 minute...

Ok...forgive me for beating a horse that was dead a LONG time ago...but I really wanted to chime in here. I have always force carbed my keg beer. For me it works well. However I continue to find that no matter how much I push the beer in the first couple days...the beer really dosent come in...

Ok...so this is an original recipe...I was looking to use up some hops I had in the freezer...I Love Red's and IPA's...so...cross your fingers hopefully a perfect marriage! Let me know what you think! Recession Red IPA American IPA Type: All Grain Date: 12/30/2010 Batch Size...