Month: January 2016

[For those who may not know, that picture above is krausen – not the final product!] This is an attempt to copy one of my favorite beers, Saranac’s Legacy IPA  (I won’t say clone since there’s definitley unknown ingredients). Their site lists malts used, some of the hops, IBUs and ABV. I used the ingredients that they…

I got a Northern Brewer Big Honkin’ Stout extract/specialty grains kit as a holiday gift and I decided to tweak it to a (hopefully) Oatmeal Stout. The idea to start tweaking came when I saw that, according to Beersmith, 1 packet of yeast wouldn’t cut it for the estimated OG of 1.068 (and that’s all…