My next homebrewed beer: Flaming Liberal IPA

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Gambrinus' Mug

[flamingyouth]

1. Hey, I'd drink to that!

:toast:

[Cathyclysmic]

2. lovely idea

I will order some for my 2008 election party

[Misunderestimator]

3. I'm jealous... I really need to try home-brewing.

Where should I start? :D

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4. Start at your LHBS

Local Homebrew Store

And start with a pale ale. Nothing fancy, but tasty, nonetheless.

[Misunderestimator]

9. Thanks! I'll take that advice.

[seemunkee]

7. On line book

http://www.howtobrew.com/
find out if there is a BOP (Brew on Premise) near you. That would be the easist way.

[Squatch]

8. Agreed. BOPs are the best place for a newb to start.

[Misunderestimator]

10. Oh, cool. Thanks for the link.

[seemunkee]

5. Nice name and good recipe

I may make that instead of my normal IPA

[Squatch]

6. I'm thinking about oaking it in the secondary.

[seemunkee]

11. Where are you located and when will it be ready?

That would add a nice dimension to it. I'm going to try and finish my keggle this weekend, I been waiting to do my next batch until it's ready.

[Squatch]

12. Too damned close to you freeloaders! (SE Virginia)

LOL

[Kali]

13. mmmmm thanks for the reminder

I've got to get a batch going. House guest in October!

[Rising Phoenix]

14. I drank my uncle's home brew once...

whew, one glass knocked me on my ass!

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15. Sounds great but I'd substitute

Amarillo hops for Cascades, quanity adjusted for alpha acid for the dry hop. It sounds like a great beer.

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16. I'm going to pass on the dry-hopping.

It's already got something like 160 IBUs without the addition of dry hops. If I wanted my beer to taste like my backyard, I would add grass clippings.

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17. Hmmm.... grass clippings

I've considered that before. I'm a hophead so I usually go lighter in the boil and get the flavor from the dry hop. I love the floral, fruity thing balancing the bitterness in my IPA's. BTW I don't use cascades anymore because of the unreliability of their flavor.

[Squatch]

18. I'm the opposite. I like beers that are hugely malty...

but I'm making an IPA for a change of pace.

I was thinking of a beer I had in Czechoslovakia a few years back at Pivovar U Fleku, Praha. Black as midnight, but a huge malt flavor...without that astringency normally associated with black beers (from too much black patent malt, I believe).

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19. Huge malt

I'll have to dig out my Reaper's Imperial Stout recipe from 2001. 11.2% abv, I can't remember finishing gravity, but, crazy, ridiculous , huge malt. I still have 2 bottles and they have gotten better every year.