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Cool I appreciate the advice

Ok thanks again. I think ill try a little under a half pound and see what I get , it will be drank no matter what!

Ok thanks yooper. I have used it once but not in that quantity. Most of the info I found online said up to 10% would be okay but I will take your advice and back off some. I wanted to get away from caramel malt for this recipie and I wanted to try to balance the hop bitterness ( for my family...

Next week I plan to try my first "hopbursted" IPA next week and I can't wait. I would welcome advice on hop schdeule and general recipie advice. I am going for that tropical citrusy hop aroma/flavor bomb without enough IBUs to make my family cry. I still have some experimental "lemon drop" hops...

Thanks for the info ill pick up some belgian bottles, I don't want any bombs after all the time spent fermenting, that would be a crime against beerkind everywhere!

I am ready to bottle my first belgian strong ale and I have another fermenting away. Do I have to use belgian style bottles with corks and a cage for carbonation purposes or is that just tradition? Will normal beer bottles or the swing tops work okay without the possiblity of bottle bombs? The...

Everything you said makes sense, ill wait till I have expanded my equipment for all grain. Ill keep experimenting with belgian strong ales for practice!

I just brewed my second belgian strong ale yesterday from Beer Captured. It called for 8.25 pounds of extra light LME and 12 oz of Belgian Candi sugar. Rather than wasting the left over extract and sugars we tossed them in to raise the abv a little more. My dad wanted to add some toasted oats...

I just brewed my second belgian strong ale yesterday from Beer Captured. It called for 8.25 pounds of extra light LME and 12 oz of Belgian Candi sugar. Rather than wasting the left over extract and sugars we tossed them in to raise the abv a little more. My dad wanted to add some toasted oats...

I'm not so sure for the dark belgians but I brewed a batch of moderately hoppy golden belgian strong ale. It needs to be bottled but so far its great. A brew calculator estimated the IBUs at 54. I used 1 oz 60min additions of stryian goldings and german smaragd, then 1/2 oz, 15 and 5 min...

I am getting ready to carb a batch of a hoppy golden belgain I made with mosaic, hallertau, stryian goldings and smaragd hops. So far it has good depth of hop flavor without so much that you can't taste the belgian yeast. I really like hkw the tropical citrus of the mosaic goes with the yeasty...

I was afraid of that thanks for the info before I started to thanks into it...

I found the coarse adjustment screw for the small kenmoore freezer I just bought from a garage sale but the shelves seem to be part of the cooling system. There are small silver pipes comming in from the back and they form the inside of the three shelves with a wire rack over them. Can I...

Thanks for the info, I guess ill have to wait to brew this or any other monster untill I have expanded my brewing equipment.

Awesome thanks. Lots of good info

Thanks for the input I didn't think getting 21% would be easy. For fermentables: What if I cut the marris otter dme and the munich lme to 6 lbs each, and cut the belgian candi sugar to 3 lbs. This should drop the abv to 12.7% and raise the belgian aromatic to 5.1% of total fermentables. For...

Thanks both of those comments make sense. Should I move the dry hopps to the last 5 mins of boil or at flame out instead?

I was reading about Whitelabs super high gravity 099. My first question is how drinkable a 20%+ beer might be and how I can improve this recipie for the best taste? Has anyone used this strain before? Beowulf Barleywine OG 1.205 FG 1.041 ABV 21.5% SRM 24 IBU 27 12 lbs Marris Otter DME 12 lbs...

I don't know ahout these new hops yet but what do you guys think of this extract recipie using the experimental lemon drop hops? I have four oz of them and I got 2 oz of whole cone citra and sorachi ace becuase I thought their flavors might compliment each other. Hopicide 5 gallons IBU(Rager)...

Well that's sad. I was thinking of using it for lightly hoped pale and then "dry hop" so I woudnt need it for the AA