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I married a WI girl who LOVES her New Glarus. She got me into all their brews and they are all excellent. She's been dying for a DMW clone, the 2.0 recipe is the one to use. Harvested some yeast from a couple 6-packs she bought when she was out there. At 8 days out you could tell where it...

Scottish 80 shilling, and have to bottle some cream ale that's been in secondary for over 3 weeks. Trying to keep as much brew around as I can for a trip to Maine, introducing the family to homebrew!

+1 on the chiller... This from a dope who's been cooling 5 gal AG batches in the bathtub. Used a chiller at Homebrew Day event, was sold on it there. This was a small 3/8 chiller that brought the 5 gal down from a boil to under 80 deg in about 12 minutes. So I promptly went out and bought 50'...

I recently bottled my IPA, dry hopped twice with pellets. Took a doubled-up grain steeping bag inside of a much finer filter, then secured them with a rubber band over the hose from the racking cane. Filtered out all but the finest of hop particles. The remaining particles and yeast compacted...

Start off easy so you can concentrate on the process, then slowly move on up. There is a lot to learn, so the easier you make it when you are starting out the better in my opinion. Wife and I started out in January with a basic hardware kit, a carboy, and a Brewers Best brown ale kit...

My wife (Brew_mistress) and I do it together as a hobby. I'm doing AG now, trying to get her to work away from the extracts. We split the fun stuff like sanitizing and scraping labels about 50/50, although I'd say I probably consume a *bit* more of the end product than she does. :D It is...

I was able to boil off about 2 gallons during my 90 min boil, from 7.5 down to 5.5. Was using an aluminun pot instead of my regular SS one, it came to a strong boil much sooner than the other one ever did. My sparge water was heated to 170F, and I didn't measure my grainbed temp while...

Hi all, Just put a recipe together last night for an IPA. Based on the grain bill, both Pro-mash and Qbrew gave me the same #'s for OG and FG. I'm new to all-grain, this was my second AG batch, and 6th batch overall. After mashing at 155F for 60 min and sparging at 170F, everything looked...