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Picked up some ingredients/yeast to brew an Alaskan Amber clone. I brewed it once last fall and think I'm going to tweak it a bit. My biggest problem is that it's been ten years since I've had any of the original, so it's hard to remember exactly what it tasted like. 
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Fat Tire with some spice? You know, Alaskan Amber is pretty good, but it's a bastard form of an altbier that uses crystal malts. I think I'm going to use a couple of pounds of Munich, cut back on the crystals and chocolate malt. I've come to the conclusion that I don't like the taste of chocolate malt in my beer at all. 
ETA, I've got a starter of WLP029 going for this. Going to try to ferment it long and on the cool side this time. Probably let it sit on the yeast for 3 weeks, keg, prime, let carb for 3 weeks @ room temp, then cold condition for a month before tapping it. |
| Task for this weekend. Get the wife a new stand up deep freeze so I can have my beer chest back. I converted a deep freeze chest a few years back and added a nice digital PLC temp controller and drilled it for CO2 it's been serving freezer duty for a couple of years. Time to set up a nice cooler in the man cave/work shop. Have about 10 gallons ready to go. This and tune the loads for my .40. |
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Quoted: I picked up some more supplies earlier this week. Going to work on some sort of bastardized version of altbier/Alaskan Amber. http://media.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=21102 I wish there was a real homebrew store around here. |
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I wish there was a real homebrew store around here. Yeah, I'm kind of lucky in that respect as I have one large one and a smaller shop within a half hour drive. I order my grains online the night before from the large shop, drive over in the am .My order is sitting on a cart paid for and ready to go when I get there. No tax (grain=food=no sales tax in Ohio),and no shipping. 
The smaller shop is a little closer and I'll run over there if I need something on the spur of the moment. They don't have the grain selection of the larger shop, but have about everything else. |
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Post in this thread in Site Suggestions to lobby for a Homebrewing subforum! http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_2/1228532_.html&page=1 |
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Post in this thread in Site Suggestions to lobby for a Homebrewing subforum! http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_2/1228532_.html&page=1 |
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Go to the office supply store and get some round avery labels.
The package has a weblink to download the template for the labels and will print with ease. Put those labels on the bottle cap after bottling and you're good to go. Sometimes they fall off but not really. |
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Quick question from a new brewer to you guys that still bottle... How do you tell the different beers apart once you get them bottled? Do you make up your own labels? Use different bottle caps? I still bottle a percentage of my beers, especially in the winter. But I'm way too lazy to soak labels off of bottles every time I reuse them. That gets old pretty fast. Post it notes on the six carriers or cases is about as far as I go. |
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been brewing off and on since 18, that makes it 37 years. Bottling is a PITA. Get kegging ASAP http://i722.photobucket.com/albums/ww228/walt_l/P1000028.jpg http://i722.photobucket.com/albums/ww228/walt_l/P1000027.jpg http://i722.photobucket.com/albums/ww228/walt_l/P1000026.jpg Where'd you get the custom tap handle? I've got a kegerator (only fits 5 kegs though), and I use mostly Stroh's taps, but would like to have some custom ones too!! K |
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I wish there was a real homebrew store around here. Yeah, I'm kind of lucky in that respect as I have one large one and a smaller shop within a half hour drive. I order my grains online the night before from the large shop, drive over in the am .My order is sitting on a cart paid for and ready to go when I get there. No tax (grain=food=no sales tax in Ohio),and no shipping.
The smaller shop is a little closer and I'll run over there if I need something on the spur of the moment. They don't have the grain selection of the larger shop, but have about everything else. Since I think I am somewhere near your AO - what store(s) do you use? |
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Since I think I am somewhere near your AO - what store(s) do you use? Well, if you're in WV, you're not very close to me or the brew shops I use. But, here you go. http://www.thegrape.net/index.htm http://abruzzos.com/ |
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I just did my first brew a couple months ago. It was the extract version of Biermuncher's Centennial Blonde. The taste came out alright but for some reason I'm not getting enough carb. I'm going to try another bottle that's been sitting at ~72 for about 4 weeks and has been in the fridge for a couple days. Hopefully it's better!
(oh and one of the not-very-carbed bottles just made an excellent loaf of beer bread!) |