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So I just bought myself a fancy new refractometer, since I was tired of taking larger samples for my hydrometer. I calibrated it to distilled water just fine, but when I took a reading of my ready-to-bottle pale ale, it read 8.2% brix! Worried that fermentation had gotten stuck, I took a...

It would help to say what kind of stuff you are looking for

4 units is a ton of carbonation. Even though it's mid style, you nay still get a bottle bomb. Be careful

Like the title says, I have lots of dogfish head 120. I would like to get a bunch of other things in exchange for some of them. I'm interested in all of the usual stuff, such as a dark lord, russian river sours, and other stuff out of the dc area distribution. Message me if you have any offers...

I would guess it probably will be a little grassy. 1 oz for 5g isn't a ton of hop material. RDWHHB

Don't discount overfilling just yet. I have been having similar problems with my batches lately, and the only thing I changed were bottling practices. I figured it out when I noticed my 22s were way more prone to gushing than my 12s. As a rule I was filling to the lip of the bottle. Now I am...

I am entering my first BJCP competition (first competition ever, to be more exact). I've been brewing for a bit, and I feel like I have some experience under my belt by now, so i want to take a shot at competing. I have been wanting to try to make a rauchbier for a while now, and the competition...

If you bottle before the beer ferments out, it won't be too sweet - rather, it will ferment in the bottle, and will be really bubbly or may even explode. After 1-2 weeks should be fine if you pitched at a good rate, oxygenated well, and did not ferment too low.

Thought I would try out the trade forum here. I'm in the dc area, a d looking for a couple of things out of my distribution. Specifically, I would really like to try Dark Lord and some stuff by new glarus. I have a bunch of stuff to trade, like anything dogfish head, oskar blues, terrapin...

No activity in the fermenter yet. I gave it a stir, and will wait another day or so.

Autocorrect is an odd thing occasionally. Frequently I do flameout, but skipped it this time in favor if more aggressive dry hopping

I've never done a post boil hop addition before. Is there much of a difference between that and a flameout addition or drug hopping?

I'm mainly worried because of all of the issues together. Also, I've dine a number of hoppy beers in the last, and this is the first time there is not even a hint of bitterness in the wort. Mostly though I am worried it won't ferment right

Yeast was white labs California 001, no starter - did not have time. No activity yet, but it's only been an hour or so

Oh and the extract was northern brewer brand rye lme