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Is there a recommended website to get started?
"How to Brew" by John Palmer.
http://www.howtobrew.com/
It is also available as a physical book. Highly recommended! It is generally regarded as the book for getting started these days.
Enjoy the ...
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What is a hop bill?
The term "Bill": be it grain or hops is simply the list of that type of ingredient, weight and time or stage schedule and how it's applied to the recipe.
Sample:
2oz Galaxy FWH
( weight, ingredient, ...
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How to achieve an "OJ looking" Pale Ale (a la Trillium/Tired Hands)
The prevailing wisdom on these so called "east coast" IPAs is three fold: The use of ~10% of flaked oats in the grist. A combo of super huge late kettle additions as well as dry hopping. Lastly, the ...
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Can theatre buttered and salted popcorn be used for brewing brewing at home?
Yes, yes it can. Have done so before with Pumpkin Popcorn IPA. It was really good!
Salted will pump up your chloride ion count, so be aware of that, and the buttered aspect makes no real difference ...
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How do you take ingredients from a brewer's website and make a recipe
It's impossible to look at a beers ingredient list and derive an exact recipe from it. You have to go through a process of trial and error, using any information you can get from the manufacturer ...
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Recipe websites catering to beginners?
Since the science and techniques of brewing is exactly the same for beginners as they are for somebody who has been brewing for years, are you asking for recipes for malt extract (known as extract ...
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What kind of beer can I make with these ingredients?
I answered this mostly as an exercise for myself since I may be in this situation and like fiddling with recipes. My brewing experience on a scale to 0 to 10 isn't 0 but not exactly 1 either.
For a 5 ...
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Brewing cheap beer for use in garden not drinking?
I'm not sure what exactly attracts slugs to beer. I would try to find out what specifically that is and replicate that as it might be cheaper.
However, in general it would be quite hard for you to ...
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Using Pine with Beer
Among the conifers, there are two that are used in brewing; Juniper and Spruce. None are used widely I think.
You probably don't want to use Pine because all parts of the pine tree will add some ...
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Is this cider recipe I made ok?
Looks Fine.. almost.
You do need some yeast nutrients though. And.... 2 cups sugar to 1 gal puts you in Apple wine territory, and will be hard for a bakers yeast to attenuate fully. Also adding a ...
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Is there a recommended website to get started?
There are so many resources on the internet these days:
BeerRecipies.org
Brewtoad
American Home Brewers Association
This is the book from CAMRA in the UK that got me started down this long long ...
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Is there a recommended website to get started?
The American Homebrewers Association: https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/
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Killing off preservatives in store bought juice
Some pasteurised juices don't contain preservatives. In Europe for example the budget supermarkets ALDI and LIDL stock pasteurised apple and grape juice that is not from concentrate and contains no ...
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Killing off preservatives in store bought juice
To get rid of the Potassium Sorbate (which is common as a juice presevative), it must complete its purpose, which is to prevent yeast to multiply (and mold to grow).
So it can prevent fermentation ...
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Is this a good recipe for a 5 hop brew?
It looks fine, but I'm not sure you're going to get the desired effect from the diverse hops. I expect that the Fuggle especially will be washed out by the other hop flavors. If you really want to ...
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New England IPA - What sets it apart from a "traditional" IPA?
According to an article on vinepair[1]:
"New England IPAs are beers that are purposely hazy or cloudy, which can give these brews a smooth, creamy mouthfeel – a departure from the light/dry mouthfeel ...
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New England IPA - What sets it apart from a "traditional" IPA?
As a home brewer, I consider the style an IPA but it is characterized by the following:
Little or no early additions of hops to the boil, 60/30 minutes. (Mash hopping is okay).
A heavy late addition ...
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Adding Ingredients to an IPA Kit
In general, when it comes to modifying extract kits, you have a few options to make it better:
1. Add less water to increase flavor and alcohol content (ex: 20L instead of 23L)
2. Steep some ...
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Is this an okay recipe?
Without knowing the AA of the hops, it's pretty much impossible to tell you how much to use. You can get by without the specialty malts, but steeping maybe 1/2 lb. of C60 will add a bit of depth and ...
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What is the meaning of the "Temperature" mash step on Brewers Friend?
As indicated by @chthon, it looks like they intend for you to provide external heat to meet the 70 C temperature, not by adding more hot water but by turning on a burner or heat stick.
It is ...
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Can theatre buttered and salted popcorn be used for brewing brewing at home?
It should work, depending on style. Popcorn is essentially cooked corn starch, so it comes pre-gelatinized and when mixed with sufficient diastatic malt it should saccharify.
As the previous posted ...
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Using Pine with Beer
You might want to check out "Unlocking Kveik's Mysteries" by Lars Marius. It's a documentary of sorts on the history and origins of Kveik yeast along with the traditional use of Juniper in ...
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Recipe for Canadian Red Ale
The best description I was able to find is PDF on shop's page. Recipe is probably copyrighted, but here is excerpt that should be good enough to start (in case PDF is no longer accessible):
Recipe is ...
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Help keeping Black IPA from becoming Imperial Stout
Current BJCP guidelines have Black IPA under Specialty IPA category. And it does have difference with American stout and porters defined:
Not as roasty burnt as American stouts and porters, and ...
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Chile Pepper Ale
So far I've made two brown-chili batches and here's what I did.
I actually made a chili concentrate by having hot chili flakes boil in raw alcohol (100% ethanol) for about 30-45 minutes, because ...
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What are my options for brewing software?
Brewtarget, Open source software, allows you to create, scale, and add notes to recipes, ingredients ..etc
you can use it on mac windows and linux, or if you want build from source on your solaris ...
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Adding sultanas to homebrew
I'd freeze the sultanas to break up the cell membranes and get more taste and sugar out of them, then once thawed add them with the elderberries and continue as per the recipe. I'd add the campden ...
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How to achieve an "OJ looking" Pale Ale (a la Trillium/Tired Hands)
I don't think you can do it with just that grain bill.
For that look and mouth feel you need to use oats or a lot of wheat.
Use a high mash temp for bigger protiens.
Short boil to keep the proteins,...
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What does it mean "Lager Malt" in this recipe (FreeBeer)
To understand this malt you need to put it into perspective with other malts and the region it comes from; the UK.
Historically, lager malt is a malt made from popular English strains of barley that ...
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Abita Andygator Clone (helles doppelbock)
Clone recipe posted here don't know how legal it was for them to post, and how legal for me would be to re-post here.
Manufacturer's site gives you ingredients:
pilsner malt,
German lager yeast,
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