Craft Forum / Winemaking / Brewing / Brewing / February 2010

So I tried this beer a while back at their R&D brewery and I loved it.  
Trying to clone it.  A 5-gal recipe sounds great.  I've got a good idea
of the hops (nobles), but I'm not sure when in the boil/dry hop they
should go (and which).  I also have no clue where to begin in terms ...

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My home made wort chiller is starting to look a little rough. I rolled a 50'
pkg of soft-drawn tubing around a sonortube and never got around to
stabilizing the coil. It's really starting to get floppy. The best thing to
do would be to sweat solder the coils into a nice, neat ...

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Hey brewers,
I haven't used dried yeast in a very long time, but I see a product
called US-56 which I presume is supposed to be similar to Wyeast 1056.
Anybody have any experience comparing the two?

Here is a link to a homebrew blog based on the experiences of my
fiance and I.  We brew quality beers and fruit and herb wines from a
tiny efficiency apartment underground, dubbed "The Bunker".  It shows
tutorials and recipes from our favorites.   The first post is even

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Here is a link to a homebrew blog based on the experiences of my
fiance and I.  We brew quality beers and fruit and herb wines from a
tiny efficiency apartment underground, dubbed "The Bunker".  It shows
tutorials and recipes from our favorites.   The first post is even

HOMEBREW Digest #5660                    Fri 19 February 2010
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D'oh -- posted the following in the wrong ng a week ago:
I have a recipe for a Belgian strong dark ale that uses WLP500 and an og
of 1.10. The attenuation naturally varies between about 70 and 80%. I
like the taste better when it's more like 70%, so I'd like to try

Since I am a public employee (teacher) dutifuly suckling the public teat on
this half-assed holiday, I've had time to double post today.  I watched this
Brit dude, Jimmy the Brewer, on YouTube as he was demonstrating his method
of all grain brewing.  As we all know, there is no ...