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  1. Brewmaster Tom

    Oak cube reuse

    Last year I made a "Bourbon Barrel" Porter by using a couple ounces of oak cubes soaked in Maker's Mark bourbon. It was bottled in July 2013 and all I did with the cubes after was rinse them off with water, allowed them to dry and then stored them in a ziploc bag in the basement. I'm getting...
  2. Brewmaster Tom

    Bourbon Barrel Porter

    Good morning ladies and gentlemen, I am in the process of making my first spirit/wood aged beer, a bourbon barrel porter. I don't have a barrel so I used 2oz. of American medium toast oak cubes that were soaked in 16oz of Makers Mark bourbon for 2 weeks. Last weekend I transferred it to...
  3. Brewmaster Tom

    Oktoberfest Help

    Good morning fellow brewing enthusiasts, I was hoping that some assistance could be given in helping to make my Oktoberfest great. I bottled mine up this past weekend (no fridge so have to lager in the garage in winter) and while I was generally happy with it (good color, crystal clear, clean...
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    (DONE) Custom Fermentables

    I think it would be a nice feature if there was a way to save custom fermentables. I have a pretty good list of the PPG and °L ratings for most of the LME and DME options at Northern Brewer. It would be nice to be able to have this stored somewhere so I can just click on a saved custom LME/DME...
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    (DONE) Wyeast Correction

    Doesn't really affect anything, just for the sake of correctness, but the editor has Wyeast NB NeoBritannia as 1965 and it is actually 1945. CHEERS!!!
  6. Brewmaster Tom

    Age of Homebrew

    Greetings community, I don't know if there is an "accepted" answer but wanted to throw this out because I've always been curious...how do you determine what the "age" of a homebrew beer is? Does it start from the day it's brewed? Once fermentation is complete? Once it is bottled/kegged...
  7. Brewmaster Tom

    Hello from Wisconsin

    Cheers to all my fellow homebrewers out there!!! I am a home brewer from Milwaukee, WI and have been brewing for a little over 5 years now. I do extract and some partial mash brewing and am always looking for new, local homebrew friends to wax intellectual about brewing and occasionally work...

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