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Bottling my Jamaica Mon mod 1 Patriot HME 1# Amber DME 1 Smooth LME Trying to figure out what I brew tomorrow. I bought the new Dad's Cream Ale recipe. Thinking of swapping the 1/2C honey for 1/2# extra light dme i have laying around. So: Daddy Jim's Cream Ale 1 Patriot HME 1 Pale LME 1/2# extra lig...

Rubber has intrigued me. Have to watch it now. Are you a Bruce Campbell fan?

If so I have 2 suggestions:
Bubba Ho-Tep
My Name is Bruce

If your do not know who he is .... you should still see these movies.

Bavarian Perle

1 Bavarian HME
.5 oz Perle
1 mr beer yeast
2T cracked coriander into the boiling water

I pitched this one a little hot (71 degrees) but that gave me great banana/colve flavors.

SWMBO has dubbed this my best beer yet!

Robusterfest

1 Ocktoberfest HME
1 Robust LME
mr beer yeast

Decent after 4 weeks, but a bit watery. Next time it should get at least 1/2# DME.

Aug15th Edit:

This one needs 7-8 weeks for the cideryness to subside and the coffee flavor to shine.

Sara is My Honey Ale

1 CAL HME
1 booster
2 oz honey
.5 oz Columbus
1 mr. beer yeast

Dissolve honey & booster in water. add .25 oz hops for 10 minutes, .25 @ flameout

Cold crashed for 2 days.

This was awesome! Great grapefruit flavor, a hint of piney bitter finish.

Don't want to start a new thread each time I have a basic recipe.

So I will post some here.

CanGer Wheat:
1 Bavarian HME
1 Canadian HME
1 booster
2 yeast (mr beer)

Turned out good after 8 weeks, but not great.

Netflix is fantastic for watching borderline movies. Pick a bad movie? Watch a different one instead!

Some things are obvious, like my LBK's for example. But we all have equipment that the new brewer might not have thought of yet. I use a digital thermometer that is meant to be stuck to a window. It records high and low temps every 24 hours. This is handy because you may check temps regularly and se...

My name is Jim, and I brew in Ames, IA. My father-in-law got me hooked on this glorious habit by giving me some of his spare equipment and buying a few refills for me. As a science geek, I have quickly become engrossed in this hobby, and in a half a year have acquired a total of 3 LBK's. I am curre...