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Hi all, I recently tried a Big Bad Baptist Imperial stout by Epic, and was really taken with the style. It was borderline sweet, strong chocolate flavors, light coffee flavors, Neutral bitterness, or possibly leaning towards Malty, sort of like a sweet milk stout, but not exactly. They also...

There are some real gems here: O'Busty Irish Red stands out. :) http://gizmodo.com/weve-run-out-of-beer-names-and-ai-is-here-to-help-1797480178

So I've been considering trying my hand at a lager. I've been strictly an Ale guy for 10 plus years. I have all the equipment so theoretically I should be able to do it effectively, but I have a couple of questions Starters I see many mentions of big starters but not much detail. Is this...

So I'm working out the details of my new setup and I thought I'd share some pictures. One of the areas I always struggle with when brewing is dumping the grain into the strike water. Invariably the bag will collapse in the wrong way and half the grain will end up on the table, or worse the...

Hi all, I'm looking for advice on the brown ale that is in my fermenter. First a little background. I just moved to Florida, and as a result had to change home brew shops, so that has thrown my method a little out of whack. I was used to a brew house efficiency of around 80%, so I planned my...

So I just moved to DB and I'm trying to figure out if there is a good shop here. So far I've heard of Hearts over in Orlando, but I was hoping there would be something local. Also how's the water around here? thanks!

I just kegged an all grain supposed fat tire approximation. It came out good but with a slightly acidic or lemony flavor. If I was shooting for that I'd think I nailed it, but it was totally unexpected. Mashed at 154f for 90min OG 1061 FG 1012 My expected OG was 1.052 so I overshot that and...

So I have been brewing for a while, but I finally got a fridge controller so that I wouldn't have to control fermentation temps with wet towels. Seems like it's working ok, I brewed an amber ale, fermentation has been regular, not slow or fast, but I'm going on three weeks and it's still...

So I want to put together a chiller the professionally put together chillers all seem to be 1/2 inch copper, where as the diys tend to be 3/8. I looked at putting one together out of half inch, but it is going to cost more than a $100. Has anyone out there used both sizes that can comment on...

So I just racked off my first batch using a sanke as a fermenter yesterday, but my standard racking cane wasn't deep enough forcing me to leave almost a gallon of beer. As you can imagine I was pretty upset. I poured it off and let it settle so don't worry I was able to save it, but I probably...

Just a quick question, I'm relatively new to All grain brewing, this will be my third batch. A year or two ago I bought a twelve pack of Sierra Nevada Tumbler Brown. I loved it, but shortly after that they discontinued it. I have brewed two brown ale's, Slight variations on the popular...

Hi all. I have a quick question about fermentation. I brewed a brown ale called caribou slobber. OG of 1.059 which was just about perfect. Currently my gravity is at 1.012, which is my expected fg, but it is still bubbling about once every 3 or 4 minutes. My plan is to cold crash it for a...

Hi all, I've been trying to duplicate the arduino based pid temperature controller that is described over at fermentation riot. So far I've installed wamp, setup the mysql table and edited the php code to reflect my login info etc. I'm excited to set this up to control my HLT temp, but I...

So I'm going to do my first AG batch tomorrow. I made a yeast starter yesterday, first time on that too. Seemed pretty straight forward. I know I read on several tutorials that I should shake the starter periodically to reoxygenate it. So this morning I grab the jar, clamp down on the aluminium...