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Went quick and easy with an all-extract recipe with some interesting adjuncts... new spruce growth, anise seed and whole cloves! It's a nod to a beer I brewed 10 years ago with a friend of mine who now lives in Japan called IQX.

Hope it turns out for you.

Certainly an odd combo of ingredients

ZiggyZoomba wrote:Went quick and easy with an all-extract recipe with some interesting adjuncts... new spruce growth, anise seed and whole cloves! It's a nod to a beer I brewed 10 years ago with a friend of mine who now lives in Japan called IQX.

If you don't think spelling is important in cooking and brewing, you've never worked with anise seed.

It's been bottled. Makes me long for a nice kegging system though... sheesh. Thank God Saturday was a gray, rainy day!

Awesome man, you'll have to let us know how it turns out!

For your kegging startup, here's a good link

http://www.homebrewadventures.com/shopp ... =SYS.KB.WO

I probably wouldn't brew anymore if it came down to bottling, I just don't like to mess around with them. Although at least you've got the flip top type bottles, all I ever had were the capping ones. Still, I think you'll find the kegging to be worth the expense

Plus you can have it carbed and drinking in a couple days instead of waiting for it to bottle-condition!

hammb wrote:Plus you can have it carbed and drinking in a couple days instead of waiting for it to bottle-condition!

Yeah, that's what REALLY sucks right now, because the taste from the hydrometer was AMAZING on Saturday. I want it to be ready NOW! And if I'd have kegged it, it would be! As it stands, it's priming in the bottles and should be "drinkable" in 4 or 5 more days and really at its prime in another couple of weeks.

I've got a couple hundred bucks from a side job coming in soon... I think it may be time to upgrade some of my equipment.

I do like the flip-top bottles. Easy to use/re-use and 16oz as opposed to 12, so it fills a pint glass.