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Did you add the tape to the hydrometer or was it made that way? Seems that may add weight and cause it to throw off the reading.

In Western PA many of the Giant Eagle supermarkets now sell beer (single bottles and six packs).

Just take an inch of the flexible tubing, slip one end over the spigot, stick the wand in the other end.

Old story, but was referenced in today's paper. Dan Rooney, who owned the General Braddock Brewery, which closed in 1937, was asked by someone who saw a beer labeled 'premium', "How do you become a premium beer?" "Young man, the first thing you do is tell your printer," Rooney replied.

The recipe calls for adding all extracts at the beginning of boil. It also calls for a 2.5 gallon boil. But if I change the iBrewmaster to 5.0 gal boil, it gives me 63.5 IBU. Beer calculus gives about the same. So it looks like the kit calculated the IBU based on a full boil, but the...

21,129.5 gallons + 5 gals Summer-ale + 5 gals Australian pale ale =21,139.5. Gals

Hi, I'm brewing a Brewers Best Australian IPA extract kit. The kit instructions indicate an IBU of 64-68. I put the recipe into iBrewmaster and it calculates an IBU of just over 31. I'm wondering if I maybe entered the recipe wrong? Or the software calculated incorrectly? Recipe follows...