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Well after a little over a week of fermenting with an extra 3 lbs of the DME, the FG has come out to around 1.011. The Recipe called for 1.017 but at least it's not below 1.01 and probably would have been without the DME addition. I feel like I read that anything below 1.01 is considered low...

I figured I should probably try to add as much as I can later in the boil because they don't have the most aromatic smell to begin with. I'm not sure if this is normal for cascade as I have never used leaf hops. They definitely have some taste though. I'm not sure if I have ever had an "American...

Would that not result in a very low IBU beer though?

I guess it wouldn't be the end of the world if it wasn't all cascade, I just thought it would be cool to be able to say all the hops came from school. I guess it would be better to say some of them did and it be good than all of them did and it be sub par though

I just picked some Cascade hops from the student garden at my college and was wondering what options I have for a brew using only these as the hops. It looks as though Pale Ale is the easiest but I would like to do a 10 gallon brew and i might only have 2-3 oz of hops which seems to be cutting...

Thanks for the help everyone! I think I am going to just put the DME in a pot, add water until it looks thin enough to boil, and boil it for 5-10 mins to kill of any bacteria. According to an online calc and my possibly wrong math, adding the 3lbs to half a gallon would put me just above the...

Ok cool thanks for that info! Would it be a problem if it is not until Thursday before we add it? I'm too busy with school exams before then to do anything. Also, I assume the less water we add the DME to, the more it will raise the gravity. What is the minimum amount we could use with 3 LBS? We...

Ok cool glad to know that. Would light gold DME do the same or would it "thicken" the beer a little

The owner of the local brew shop said to boil up 2-3 lbs. of light dry malt extract and that it should raise the gravity a few points. Would it be worth trying to do this on thursday and give it another 3 or 4 days to ferment before moving it to a carboy to clarify? I have my 10 gallons of wort...

Me and a friend brewed 10 gallons of this pumpkin beer on 9/13/13 using BIAB and scaled the 15 gallon recipe by .66 for measurements. We ended up with only 1.04 gravity after boil, however, instead of the 1.053 that the recipe has. Most of that is probably due to not having enough room in the...

Me and a friend brewed 10 gallons of this last night using BIAB and scaled the 15 gallon recipe by .66 for measurements. We ended up with only 1.04 gravity after boil, however. Most of that is probably due to not having enough room in the sparge pot and maybe not stirring the grains enough. How...

I just made a keggle and was looking into if i could do a BIAB 10 gallon batch with it. Everyone seemed to say that the grain would weigh too much and displace too much water to contain in the keg. I am trying to brew a pumpkin beer that would require 19.47 pounds of grains for 10 gallons which...