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I made a extract Tripel (Midwest Supplies kit) and it's been in primary a month now. I took a taste and a gravity reading it seems like it's going to be good but it's got such a lite flavor that the 8% alcohol is coming through a good bit. I know you can leave beer in primary for a good...

Yep, I'm anxious and I know it. I made an extract kit from Midwest, the Hop Head Double IPA, and tweaked it a little. I left it in primary for two weeks before I dry hopped it with 2oz of whole leaf cascade (came with the kit) and 2oz of whole leaf amarillo for a week. It's been bottled for...

So I thought that the little bottle of powder that came with my Midwest Groupon kit (basic kit) was sanitizer, but I never actually read the bottle. I looked at it last night and it states it's a cleaner (stated on their website as: 4 Oz. of Easy Clean No-Rinse Cleanser), not a sanitizer...

So I've got a Belgian Trippel fermenting right now. To help the beer attenuate down a little drier (as well as add some ABV) I'm going to add a pound of Belgian Candi Sugar to the beer after the most vigorous fermentation is over. I've got a couple questions on this though. How long do...

I pitched a 2L starter of WLP550 yesterday around 4pm into my Belgian Trippel (slightly overfilled my bucket at around 5.5 gal). I was expecting it to take off pretty quickly, as the starter was overflowing out of my growler (and I'm sure I lost some yeast to that as I had a small puddle around...

Ok, I've got a Midwest Supplies Belgian Trippel I'm making today. I wanted to change it up a little and add some more hops and a little more gravity. Here's what I'm about to do: Fermentables: 4lbs Munton's Plain Extra Light DME 3.3lbs Midwest Pilson Light LME 2lbs Belgian Candi Sugar...

No reason for this post other than I'm excited and wanted to share. This is my second brew and it's turning out much better than the first. I bought Midwest Supplies Hop Head Double IPA and proceeded to make a couple tweaks to it. The original bill is as follows: 9.3lbs Gold LME 4oz...

I keep wanting to mess with my brews before they're done. :drunk: I've got a double IPA in the fermenter right now and I was thinking about adding a little honey (boiled with water to sterilize obviously) to up the ABV a little and add some sweetness to it (thinking of HopSlam). I've already...

Ok, I'm going to be making this Belgian Trippel Extract kit in the next couple of weeks (http://www.midwestsupplies.com/media/downloads/18/Belgian%20Tripel%20instructions.pdf) but I'd like to make it a little hoppier while keeping the Belgian Trippel feel/taste. I'm a fan of really hoppy beers...

Ok, so I put too much water when I was steeping my specialty grains (doing an extract kit) and once I added my LME I had almost no room in my kettle. I had to take almost a gallon out and put it in another pot. I'm doing an IPA so I'm putting all the hops in the big 5 gallon kettle. I've...

I am going to be making Midwest Supplies Hop Head Double IPA soon (maybe this weekend if I have time) and I want to throw in some additional yeast. The kit came with Safale US-05 which specifies it's for low to medium gravity beers. The kit should come out to about 7.6% so I want to throw in...

First off I was impatient with this brew. I know, bad thing, but I kinda wanted to start out that way so I could taste what it's like when you don't do it right. :p So I made the Midwest Supplies Irish Red extract kit, left it in primary for 12 days (FG was stable 2 days in a row at 1.014)...

First of all this site is awesome! Second of all I'm going to be making my second brew here in a couple weeks (just did my first this weekend, Midwest Supplies Irish Red) and for my second batch (Midwest Belgian Trippel) I randomly decided to opt for the White Labs liquid yeast (the Red came...