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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: The NHC...What should I do

« on: January 20, 2010, 12:09:56 PM »

This will be my 6th NHC and I can tell you that if you don't do the whole package, you'll very likely end up regretting it. Club night is one of the most incredible events you'll ever see.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Partial Mash As a First Step To All Grain

« on: January 20, 2010, 12:08:28 PM »

The mashing part of going AG isn't very expensive....just a cooler, a toilet supply hose, some tubing and a cheap nylon valve. The real expense could come from a kettle and possibly burner for full boils. But going partial mash or AG doesn't necessarily mean a full boil. I started doing AG with a partial boil on my stovetop, or brewed 2.5 gal. batches for a full boil. Take a look at www.dennybrew.com to see how cheaply and easily you can do it.

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Beer Recipes / Re: Let's see some dunkel recipes

« on: January 20, 2010, 10:44:20 AM »

Quote from: Kaiser on January 20, 2010, 10:37:42 AM

Is this the dark or the light kind?

They call it dark and list it as 9-12 SRM. The light they list as 6-8 SRM. I have a bag of Durst Munich also, but I've never used the Best so I thought I'd give it a try. I really considered just going with the dunkel grist you list on your site, Kai, but I finally decided to change it up a but. OTOH, I haven't ground the grain yet, so we'll see what I finally do!

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Beer Recipes / Re: Let's see some dunkel recipes

« on: January 20, 2010, 10:19:07 AM »

Thanks a bunch, guys. I think I'm going with about 70% Best Munich (about 10L), 25% pils, 2% CaraMunich, and 1% carafa. We'll see how this year's batch turns out!

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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: Wyeast 1450

« on: January 20, 2010, 10:13:46 AM »

From what I've heard, 1450 should have started being available full time as of last Monday.

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Yeast and Fermentation / Re: Blowing off too much yeast?

« on: January 20, 2010, 10:12:53 AM »

FWIW, I don't know if blowoff was really the cause of the low attenuation on your beers. I've had some massive blowoffs and I've never found a correlation between those and attenuation.

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Questions about the forum? / Re: Animated avatars

« on: January 20, 2010, 10:10:23 AM »

Seems like a good idea to me....we just need to figure out how to implement it.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Hefeweizen techniques

« on: January 20, 2010, 10:09:03 AM »

Quote from: midtex on January 20, 2010, 08:23:27 AM

Thank you both - great resources. I hope I don't get something started here, but what's wrong with the Complete Joy of Homebrewing?

Basically it's very outdated and a lot of the info in there has since been disproven. It was a great book "in its day" and Charlie's RDWHAHB attitude gave a lot of us our start on homebrewing, but in the years since it was written a lot has changed in terms of ingredients, equipment, techniques, and knowledge.

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