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So I am fermenting my first lager and I am concerned about an off-flavor that I have detected in my gravity samples. The two samples I withdrew were awful, to say the least. Part of the flavor is cooked, buttered corn. I take that as diacetyl. (The beer is at a diacetyl rest right now)...

I just got back from my LHBS with 2.0 oz of Sterling pellets and I have to say, I am impressed. They smell delicious: spicy, floral, with perhaps a little honeysuckle and lemon peel. I am not proud to admit it, but I even chewed on one just to get more of that aroma. I am...

So I want to brew a beer similar to a Bohemian Pilsner, but with an ale yeast. Here is the recipe that I have settled on. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type: All Grain Batch Size (fermenter): 3.25 Boil Size: 3.00 gal Boil...

Alright, for my next brew, I have three objectives: 1. Brew a session APA with an OG of 1.032-1.035 2. Hop this beer with HBC 342 exclusively. 3. Brew it with forbidden rice to obtain an amber to purple color to complement the expected fruitiness of HBC 342. Yes it is a weird idea...

Okay a friend of mine wanted to get into brewing and he decided that he'd like to try and create an oatmeal cookie brown ale. After reading some, I learned that you can replicate the taste of raisins with dark crystal malt and toasting your flaked oats can give you the impression of baked...

Alright, I am getting ready to bottle this beer soon and I want to brew it again in order to better learn my system. I am pretty happy with how my gravity samples have tasted, although I feel that the hop character is lacking. I'd also like more of a toasty flavor rather than sweet...

So yesterday, I brewed a saison with 9lbs of Belgian Pils. Right now it is fermenting rather violently (WLP566) and smells great, but I am worried that I may have oversparged and extracted some tannins. After I collected the runnings in my kettle, I gave it all a good stir and collected a...

So I want to brew a saison as my next beer in order to take advantage of my 80F room temperature. I have been reading recipes on hopville, but so far, I don't see too many similarities. Can anyone suggest a medium OG AG recipe that they had some success with? The only thing that I've...

So I brewed my first all grain batch yesterday (2nd batch overall) and I have a question about my extraction efficiency. I was expecting an efficiency around 0.65-0.7 for this batch, but I seem to have gotten 0.87! I was batch sparging in a 5 gal Igloo MLT and collected 6.3 gal of wort with a...

Hello all, I am new to homebrewing and I just finished bottling my first extract beer. I am worried that I may have created bottle bombs, however. I am fermenting with Cooper's ale yeast. The beer is a light ale with an initial SG of 1.040 (measured with my hygrometer). I bottled...