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  1. Dogwood

    Custom home made beer cooler

    Getting close to being far enough in my home remodel to start thinking/plan my basement bar. I need to keep the back bar depth to a minimum so I am thinking of building a fridge close to the width of a corny keg and 6 kegs wide. Plan on reusing fridge components but am having a hard time...
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    Norwegian Farmhouse ale

    My wife and I were in Granby CO a few months ago. A brewpub there had a Norwegian Farmhouse ale that was quite good, malty and about 7% abv. I have been looking for Norwegian beer recipes but can only find ones that are pilsner style. Anyone have a good recipe for me? I've got juniper and...
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    Toberfest ale

    I have done a couple Toberfests, ale yeast, through the years. I found this recipe, https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/1295577/toberfest-alt , and it sounds good!! Question is, is there enough base grain to turn the starches into sugar? Thanks for the help!!
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    Why raise mash temp?

    Why raise the mash temp to 170 at the end of the mash? Wert goes into the boil kettle and gets a lot hotter than 170! It can be very difficult and time consuming raising the temp that much, not to mention that one could get the temp too hot causing unwanted flavors, ie tannins, in the beer. I...
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    Nut brown ale: The Touch of a Hand

    Looking to brew a nut brown. Looking to get malty beer with good presence of nut flavor. I looked at many recipes and this is what I came up with. Going to be a 15 gal batch! recipe as follows: The Touch of a Hand 27 lb 2 row 1.5lb cara brown 18 oz crystal 40l 24 oz victory 12 oz chocolate...
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    Is beer sitting in a fermenter for months have layers

    Arrrgh, what horrible use of words in the title! Was supposed to say does beer stratify! I am kegging my Unfiltered and Unapologetic stout, 15.5 gallons and Amber waves of grain, 10.5 gallons this afternoon. Does the beer need to be stirred pre kegging? Seems like the differant grains could...
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    1st brew in the new brew room!

    Still much work to go on the room, but was time for the first brew, a fine Christmas stout, I hope! 62.5 pounds of grain in a 15 gal batch, took two mashes to do! Its very happily bubbling away.
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    Tannins?

    Since getting this brewing sys, most of the beer brewed has had a strange flavor to them, almost a hoppy flavor but different. These are beers I have brewed before that were increduble, now I dont drink much of my beer! Stopped at a newer brew pub for some good brew and theirs was almost...
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    A couple mashing questions/thoughts

    I have been reading some brewing books and threads about the mash. The part I am wondering about is the grain and water. I had years past on high gravity beers 30 to 40 llb grain bills and had a bit of work getting all the dough balls stirred out, never knowing for sure if they all got broken...
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    Protein in beer

    any advice on how to determine the amount of protein in a beer?
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    Low cal beer

    Most of my brews tend to have a strong malt taste and fairly high alcohol. My wife enjoys the beer but dosent enjoy the high calories. I am thinking of a brew abv below 4% but am concerned about running to much water through the grains to get the dreaded tannins in the wert. Still working on...
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    Roasting 2 row

    Yup, on somethings I am cheap. I have heard that 2 row can be kilned/toasted/roasted to get more and different flavors. sounds easy but, sticking 15# of grain in the oven may be interesting! Have any of tried to roast your grains and has it made a difference?
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    Ball locks or pin locks

    I have acquired a bunch of kegs. About half pin lock and half ball locks. I am thinking of making them all the same. I have had the ball locks leak a bit of brew making the bottom of my cooler messy and Im tired of trying to put the wrong line on the post. I have one line in for a pin lock...
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    how to post in an existing thread

    I wanted to make a post in General Brewing Discussions in the "What are you doing with homebrew today" thread. There is no way that I can find to do so! I made a tread in General Brewing Discussions hoping that it would let me choose which thread I wanted it in. Didnt work that way as it in...
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    Good day for a brew

    Had enough time to do a brew yesterday and as the weathers getting colder, moved the brew equipment into the basement. First brew inside and went well!! Soon to be a dedicated brew room! 15.5 gallon batch of "whatcher got stout"! Had several bags of grain left over from other brews and...
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    Circulating during mash

    I was surfing questions this am (Damm insomnia) and someone had a link to an easy to understand brewing how to manual that was very well written and covers much. The section on mashing stated that circulating the wert shouldn't happen until after its through mashing. I have for a couple of...
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    same beer tasting differant, same batch, differant kegs

    I had made a ginseng dark ale, 1st in my new 18 gal Spike fermenter. 1st keg had a much stronger ginseng flavor than the second keg. Thinking the ginseng settled down during fermentation and the first keg just had more in it. If this is the case, will the beers from every batch taste a bit...
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    Fantastic site!!

    What amazing info here! Glad to be a part. I have been brewing about 6 years, started with kits like everyone else and started all grain soon thereafter. I upgraded to a half barrel sys about a year ago and soon to acquire a computerized half barrel sys and switching to electric brewing. New...
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    Why not add o2 for stuck fermentation

    Im fermenting a 15 gal strong ale with ginsing extract in it. I did a starter 2 hours before in went into the fermenter with 4 packs of safeale 05 and one packet windsor yeast, was very quick to become active. started the brew 8-25 and very fast fermentation for the first 4 days. OG at 1.070...

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