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I covered 10oz Sunmaid Raisins with boiling water, puréed, and dumped into my oatmeal stout. Secondary fermentation started back up within minutes. 4 days later I took a gravity reading and the sample was tart. The tartness masked nearly all other flavors. The beer is still very young so not...

I appreciate the detailed advice. I'd like to know why you recommend only 85ppm range for calcium. My understanding of calcium is contributing to "roundness" while my perception of NEIPAs couldn't be rounder. My hop schedule is looking like one 60min add. for all IBUs with massive 170F...

I'm fully aware distilled water lacks the ions necessary for yeast health. I'm making an IPA which does poor given my city water profile (Louisville, KY) where we're looking at 58ppm Sulfate. I know I could just toss in a little gypsum but I'm wanting to experiment with full control on this...

I'm looking for a place to buy roughly 400 heritage (think Founders/Sierra Nevada) style bottle 6-pack holders in a blank paper/cardboard brown color. But any color will do. I'm having no luck finding them, would appreciate help if anyone can point me to a company that may stock these. Thanks

I was hoping that by keeping the flaked corn around 10% and mashing at 152F range I could keep enough body while still being light. I'm going for an easy drinker, but not watery. I have some lactose on hand for emergency body building. For yeast, overpitching S-04 fermented at low 60's (62-ish...

Going for a medium-light body brew with coffee and vanilla beans. I'm looking for suggestions from experience on how much crystal I should use in my grain bill to get a semi sweet base for the vanilla beans to pair with. 6-Row - 73% Flaked Corn - 12% Crystal 40 - 9% Flaked Barley - 6%...

Imperial Stouts are disgusting They're basically sugary motor oil. Nothing that sweet should be considered a beer IMO, more like a boozy low carbonated extra hard soda... IPA frequency Regular pale ales are much better. They oversaturate beer options. I just feel like it's trendy to love IPAs...

I'm making an APA/IPA using pre-prohibition techniques and historic all american ingredients commonly used around 1900 (weird, I know) Sugars 7%abv 7# --- 6Row 1# 8oz --- Flaked Corn 1# 11oz --- Dextrose (Corn Sugar) Hops (Cluster) 40IBUs .5oz @ 90 .5oz @ 60 1 oz @ 10 .5oz @ 5 .5oz @ 0...

I've come across that link multiple times. I was never able to get any information on dates or first American usage of the hop types from that site. I think it's a fairly new site not fully written yet. Like I said I've been researching pre-prohibition pale ales and IPAs for the last day so...

No kiddin on the needle in haystack. I've been at it since yesterday and have found little no confirmations on anything other than cluster. Most historical recipes use general terms like "old", "new", "New York", "pacific" when referring to hops. At this point I'll gladly accept the classic...

I've searched all over and can fix little information on which hops available today would be historically accurate to use in a pre-prohibition American IPA. All I've found for this time period in America is cluster cluster cluster cluster cluster cluster cluster cluster.... We're there no...

I've searched all over and can fix little information on which hops available today would be historically accurate to use in a pre-prohibition American IPA. All I've found for this time period in America is cluster cluster cluster cluster cluster cluster cluster cluster.... We're there no...

Yea, I've been toying around with additions in Beersmith. The thing is, I've just not put much brewing research time into hops (hardly any actually). So I don't even know the taste difference between throwing them all in at first wort or throwing them all in at flame out. So I guess I should...

How do you maximize the efficiency of hops? What is the most effective time to use 2oz of hops during the boil when trying to make a cheap pale ale? 11# 6-row (I get it free) 1# Crystal 20L And what type of hops with what acids ranges would be most efficient? (all hops same $/ounce at LHBS)...

Any The Chariot fans here? Luckily I got to see them before they broke up. Remedying that loss by catching Every Time I Die and Norma Jean anytime they're within 300 miles.