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What does 'Imperial' mean with regards to beer style?
I've seen the adjective "Imperial" tacked on at the beginning of a number of beer styles recently: Imperial Stout, Imperial Brown Ale, Imperial Red Ale, etc.
What does it mean exactly, is it just ...
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Estery fruit flavors in my vanilla bourbon imperial porter
I'm still pretty new to home brewing, so I'm sure I made about a hundred mistakes with this beer. I brewed a 1.079 OG imperial porter, and used Safale 05 (only one pack, unfortunately). First of all, ...
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Overly Active Fermentation
I've got an Imperial IPA that I'm worried has something wrong.
OG 1.080,
5gal batch,
6.5gal fermentation bucket,
Used a healthy starter,
Room temp 70f
Primary kicked up within five hours or so and ...
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Is this a reasonable use of special B in an imperial stout recipe?
I've just worked up this (extract, specialty grains) recipe from glancing at clone recipes for old Rasputin imperial stout and black butte porter--they both have a smooth, chocolaty thing I'm going ...
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How many of you have brewed a 'Triple IPA' and how do you define it?
I am doing one for a competition -I hopped it like a double or Imperial IPA in the boil, but I am hopping it with three dry hop additions added in separate increments.
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Adding sugar to an imperial stout
I did not fly sparge properly, undershooting the preboil gravity by quite a bit, and ended up using more sparge water to extact sugars. I then reduced away most of the additional water, and ended up ...
