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Is first wort hopping beneficial in partial/mini mash IPAs ?

Is it recommended to dry hop in the keg ? .. I be tried it once with no ill affects , but with my present batch I dry hopped with 3 or 4 oz in a muslin bag and the beer coming insanely hazy and loaded with hop debris .. Also before I pulled the hop sack out of the keg it was almost impossible to...

Does IPA day fall on the same day every year ? Or is it on the first weekend of August ?

Looking for a tasty but powerful hop forward IPA to brew and have ready in 5 weeks .. Any suggestions people ?

This is prob a question that even super noobs know the answer to .. But is it possible to take reading after the beer has been kegged ? I think I've been having trouble getting my beers and wines for finish lower than 1.021 ? Any tips ? Besides letting it sit for months ?

Can anybody direct me to a good site to find distilled hop oil !?! This Hop Hunter IPA is absolutely amazing !!!

I'm a. Homebrewer and have done close to 20 5 gallon extract w/ specialty grain batches .. I've recently been trying to do some cheap "inmate" style wines with grocery store bought natural juice blends , some table sugar / and now corn sugar , and Montrachet yeast .. I've done 3 little batches...

How awesome is feeling of trying a new brewing techniques, on new brewing equipment and know it's working from the gentle heartbeat of the blow off tube in the ferm chamber more than a week later ? :)

I have only 20 batches under my belt at the most but I have read allot on this app/site and watched as many videos on YouTube as I can .. But .. Does a lower slower boil , along with later; gradual addition of liquid malt extract result in a super bitter tasting pre-yeasted wort ?

If I'm only doing a extract with 1.25 of specialty grains steeped in a muslin bag and then filter all pre boiled wort through fine mash tun filter , is most of the trub left at the end of the boil all hop particles ? I did add 6oz , but still seems like I have an extra amount of trub .. I've...

If I'm doing a mini / partial with 8oz Crystal 80L , 8oz Victory and 4oz of Cara-Pils in a 5 gallon St steel kettle with 2.5 gallons of water at 162f .. How much temp should lose by adding the grains ?

I have a bottle of Welch's 100% white grape and cherry juice = 64 fl oz .. To which I will add 2 cups of sugar and 1 half a pack of Fermintis brand Pasteur Red dry wine yeast .. My question is should I try to make a yeast starter to get things moving along faster?? .. I've tried this recipe...

I've read in a few places that the temperature if the of wort/beer directly effects the gravity reading .. But I've gone to several gravity/temperature calculator websites and found that even over 10 degrees the reading changes only very slightly ... Am I using these calculators wrong ??

Me and the roomy brewed a regular ole Stone ipa clone last Saturday .. We had a slightly delayed reaction after adding the wyeast 1056 but after a full 24 hours we had definite action in the carboy .. After a week of less than our normal explosive fermentation , we still have a fairly dense but...

I went to a random hydro temp calculator , and put in the most ridiculous temperatures to find out how much a reading can change , and even going from near freezing to 159 there is only a few hundreds of a point different in the readings . Is this right ? .. I always thought it would change much...

Favorite methods for adding citrus fruits to a heavy iipa , pros and cons please ... 2nd - if I make a starter , and only hand swirl it fairly often for 20 hours or so , should I expect it to ferm and fall quicker ?

I'm planning on force kegging in a corny for 3 days with no shaking or rolling , what pressure should I put it on ? I've heard people say 30 and people goin with 15ish ?

I know this might sound strang coming from a Texas HomeBrewer , but what is the preferred DIY way to keep fermentation chamber at a 68-72 degrees ? ... I have a heating pad , but it seems to have a safety switch on it that won't let it stay on for more that an hour or so

Massive boil over bros !! I walked away for 30 sec and a hollow or more of wort boiled out all over everything !!! ... I didn't know what I should do so I added more water to the pot I didn't have any more fermentable's to thrown in with it even it back out

Anybody have preferences on the 2 ?