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    Breakfast stout time!

    Hi there guys, been a long time since posting but I have been wanting to make a breakfast stout for a while now and came up with this recipe. What do you think, if anything, should be corrected? Never made a breakfast stout before! For 6.5g # 10 Maris Otter 1 Chocolate malt 1 roasted...
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    English Brown Recipe

    Hey hey, I'm making an English brown ale for my sister's wedding and just wanted some feedback on a recipe I put together. Let me know what you think; 10 Gallons O.G. 1.068 F.G. 1.015 20 lbs English 2-row Pale 2.2SRM 6oz British Chocolate malt 475SRM 10oz British Crystal 55L 3oz...
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    Grain bill game!

    Hi there, I ordered a bunch of grain from AHS and they mixed two recipes into two bags, but in the wrong order. I decided on making beer regardless of this shenanniganery. Here is what I have; 11lbs Belgian Pale 2 lbs Caramunich in bag one; German Pils 8lbs spec b 2lbs carapils 4lbs in bag...
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    This is getting retarded

    So I started my infected beer marathon with a batch of old ale that is actually turning out to be a bad ass sour, but in the mean time, there is a belgian dark strong ale, and two individually racked one gallon batches of hefe that are infected now.... I have been doing the same sani methods...
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    Spur of the moment cider!

    My friend and I decided to make a cider the other day which consisted of 3 gallons unfiltered organic apple juice 1 gallon water 2 pounds maple syrup 750ml jar of brown sugar 450ml of quaker oats everything held at 160*F for half an hour and we pitched the yeast cake from a bavarian...
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    Herb heads unite!

    I need feeback on the following herbs. I've found relitively zero information about the flavors these herbs impart into a brew, so any help is appreciated. sweet gale chamomile flowers lemon grass chickory root What do these do, besides the general description? When should I add them...
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    A question about commercial brewing...for the commercial brewer...

    I'm taking a business class and need some help with putting income statements together as well as some numbers for rent, utilities, and other things a 5bbl startup brewery might expect to find in the first year or so of operations, because thats what I'm going to do. ANY help whatsoever is...
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    did i just do a scientific "oh hell no!"?

    just mixed bleach and star san because i am going to bottle today, and jesus above, there are some stroooooooong vapors coming off of it, almost made me gag. did i just make a giant poisonous mix? oops?
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    Craft Brew industry revenue?

    Does anyone have a link, or other information that would tell me what the revenue for the craft brew industry has been for 2007, 8 and 9? I've been sitting in my business class for the last three hours trying to find some numbers on this and so far all i've found are some percentages but nothing...
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    Brew day, a new mash tun, and horrible efficiency..

    So my friend and I brewed today with a new polarware mash tun, and our efficiency SUCKED! It wasnt the tun itself...it held its temp perfectly, and there was no stuck mash or anything, but the height of the false bottom creates a good 2-3 inches before the grain bed starts, which i believe held...
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    Too good to be true?

    http://www.addabrewpub.com/procedure.html check out this place and what they claim....the thing that gets me is "an entire brewing system and a CA liquor license for $50,000"...anyone heard of these guys?
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    Behold!

    Got 4 beers going right now. Here are the labels and descriptors. Burial at Sea An American Barley Wine brewed with Belgian dark candi sugar, and aged on Bourbon oak spirals. Some tasting notes: Appearance- Blood red, with a nice rocky off white head. Little bit of haze due...
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    Starter size for a 1.120???

    How big of a starter do I need for Something with that big of an og? I think a half gallon should do right? Btw yeast is wlp530
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    To prevent bottle bombs: A sour question

    I'm going to bottle my beloved sour beer today that has been resting for a long time now, and DO NOT want to get bottle bombs out of it, namely because i know how attenuative brett/lacto/pedio can be, so how much sugar should i add for bottle conditioning?
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    15bbl brewery

    I am putting this in here because im going to make a damn 15bbl brewery and have multiple questions regarding operations costs, equipment costs, batch costs, so on so forth, so if ANYONE out there has some time to help me out, post in here and i'll private message you. Thanks a lot!
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    Need an expert! legal question!

    My friend and I are going to open a brewery and we dont have an ABC license yet...the problem with that is that we want to "donate" some beer to a local pub to put on draught, but we don't know the legality of this.. I live in California, so if anyone has a law background and can help a brother...
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    Wanna see a gnarly infection???

    here you go... this retard caused it all.. I use an air tight system that was sanitized thoroughly and was in its first month of fermentation when i smelled something weird coming out of the airlock one day. cracked the mofo open and what do i see????? a spot of white! I sanitized a...
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    Anyone have an awesome brewshack?

    I'm moving into a new house soon and am thinking of dedicating at least one room to homebrewing/taps/brewerania, so does anyone have something like this going on?
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    Blichmann Beer Gun questions

    1) By force carbonating using this gun, do you kill any chance of the beer maturing naturally after it is bottled? 2) I don't have a kegging system, so is there any way i can hook this up to a bottling bucket, and still get the same results? 3) Does anyone have any experience with this...
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    Planning for the big time

    Anyone know how much money *roughly* it would take to open a nanobrewery? I'm in the midst of trying to figure out a business plan and if anyone has numbers and or advice for me, i would be extremely grateful. cheers.
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