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What's a good beer to use for experimenting with adding flavors? I want to small scale adjust a tea and trial it in an off the shelf beer. The Tea will ultimately get added to a 5 gallon batch at bottling. Just want to play with mixes ahead of time first and will adjust addition as needed at...

Been a member on here for quite some time but not very active. Been BIAB brewing 5 gallon batches in a 10 gallon kettle for about 5 years now and have pretty good process getting consistent 85% conversion. I have been trying some new things lately. Last week I did a FWH for the first time...

I will be doing a full volume BIAB so I should be good. I don't need the numbers to exact, just close.

Exactly what I was looking for... Thanks! So I am looking at the following for a 1 gallon top up batch. 4lb 2-row 1lb flaked oats 1 oz of a 12AA hops for 30 minutes Does this make sense?

I am being given 5 gallons of wort at 1.051 and 25 IBU. I want to do a mini mash to add flaked oats, increase the batch size to 6 gallons, increase the OG to about 1.065, and bump the IBUs just a bit (about 10 IBU). Is this possible and if so, how do I do it? I'm having a hard time doing the...

Just brewed this up for the first time over the weekend. Only $19.80 out the door of the LHBS for grains/hops/yeast. Shop owner had to add everything up twice because he couldn't believe I was brewing a 5.5 gallon batch for under $20. I had to come up with something lighter and less expensive...

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My starters always look exactly like yours after cold storage in the fridge for 18-24 hours before pitching. There's still yeast in suspension but you've still propagated lots of yeast! I pull mine out about 3 hours before I think I will pitch, decant all but about an inch of the liquid above...

I was just looking at this recipe too and came across this thread. Does anyone know why the bittering hops are added at 15 minutes and not 60 as would be typical?

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After signs of active fermentation were complete (about 5 days), I moved the fermenter from 60F ambient temp environment to 68F ambient temp environment and also swirled it. Checked the gravity three days later and saw no changes. It's got to be done.

The reason I mashed at 158F is because Yooper had posted in the recipe thread that that is the temp she likes to mash this beer at. I suppose my thermometer could be off slightly too so I may have even mashed a little higher. I'm going to assume that this beer is done at 1.020 and proceed to...

I brewed Yooper's Dead Guy Ale clone two weeks ago. The recipe can be found here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f66/dead-guy-clone-extract-ag-see-note-25902/ I brewed the all grain version as a full volume BIAB. Mashed at 158F for approx 75 minutes. My expected gravities were 1.066 OG and...

Brewed this 10 days ago and got an OG of 1.060 which was a little low. Over the last three days the SG hasn't changed from 1.021 which is a little higher than I expected for this beer. I mashed at 158F (full volume BIAB) and used bottle harvested Pacman yeast. Should I just bottle this as-is...